Igor Golovin

Igor Nikolaevich Golovin
Игорь Николаевич Головин
Born	(1913-03-12)12 March 1913 Moscow
Died	15 April 1997(1997-04-15) (aged 84) Moscow
Resting place	Vvedenskoye Cemetery
Nationality	Russia
Alma mater	Moscow State University
Known for	Tokamak
Awards	Order of Lenin Order of the October Revolution Order of the Badge of Honour Medal "For Labour Valour" Stalin Prize Lenin Prize Honoured Scientist of the RSFSR[1]
Scientific career
Fields	Physics
Institutions	Moscow Aviation Institute Kharkiv Institute of Physics and Technology National Research Centre Kurchatov Institute
Thesis	Polarization of vacuum in Dirac's theory  (1939)
Doctoral advisor	Igor Tamm

Igor Nikolaevich Golovin (Russian: Игорь Николаевич Головин; 12 March 1913 – 15 April 1997) was a Russian physicist whose career was spent on the former Soviet program of nuclear weapons and nuclear fusion. He is known for coining the term Tokamak.