Anatoly Alexandrov (physicist)

Anatoly Aleksandrov
Анатолий Александров
A.P. Aleksandrov (1903–94), ca. in 1976.
Born
Anatoly Petrovich Aleksandrov

(1903-02-13)13 February 1903
DiedFebruary 3, 1994(1994-02-03) (aged 90)
Resting placeMitinskoe Cemetery
SiglumA. P. Alexandrov
Citizenship Russia
Alma materKiev University
Known forSoviet atomic bomb project
Nuclear marine propulsion
RelativesEugene Aleksandrov (Nephew)
Awards Lomonosov Gold Medal
Hero of Socialist Labor
Lenin Prize
Stalin Prize
Scientific career
FieldsPhysics
InstitutionsLaboratory No. 2
Institute for Physical Problems
Leningrad Polytechnic Institute
Kiev Institute of Health
Thesis Relaxation in Polymers  (1941)
Doctoral studentsYuri Semenovich Lazurkin
WebsiteA.P Alexandrov

Anatoly Petrovich Aleksandrov (Russian: Анатолий Петрович Александров, 13 February 1903 – 3 February 1994) was a Russian physicist who played a crucial and centralizing role in the former Soviet program of nuclear weapons.

During his lifetime, Aleksandrov was the recipient of many honors, civil citations, and state awards for this work and was also the director of the Kurchatov Institute and the President of the Soviet Academy of Sciences from 1975 until 1986.