Nikolai Tikhomirov (chemical engineer)

Nikolai Tikhomirov
Николай Тихомиров
Bust of Nikolai Ivanovich Tikhomirov. Saint Petersburg. Museum of rocket science.
BornNovember 1859
Moscow
Died28 April 1930
Leningrad
NationalityRussian
Known forfounder of the Gas Dynamics Laboratory
AwardsHero of Socialist Labor
Scientific career
Fieldsspecialist in rocket technology

Nikolai Ivanovich Tikhomirov (Russian: Николай Иванович Тихомиров; born Nikolai Viktorovich Slyotov; November 1859 – 28 April 1930) was a Russian and Soviet chemical engineer, inventor, founder of the Gas Dynamics Laboratory, specialist in rocket technology and one of the inventors of the Katyusha, which he was awarded the Hero of Socialist Labor (1991, posthumously). A crater on the far side of the Moon is named after him.