Yulii Khariton

Yulii Khariton
Юлий Харитон
Khariton on a Russian stamp issued on the 100th anniversary of his birth
Born(1904-02-27)February 27, 1904
DiedDecember 18, 1996(1996-12-18) (aged 92)
SiglumYu.K
Citizenship Russia
Alma materLeningrad Polytechnical Institute, Soviet Union
University of Cambridge, United Kingdom
Known forSoviet program of nuclear weapons
AwardsHero of Socialist Labour (1949, 1951, 1954)
Lenin Prize (1956)
Scientific career
FieldsPhysics
InstitutionsLaboratory No. 2
Institute of Chemical Physics
ThesisScintillation produced by alpha-particles (1928)
Doctoral advisorErnest Rutherford
Other academic advisorsAbram Ioffe

Yulii Borisovich Khariton (Russian: Юлий Борисович Харитон; 27 February 1904 – 18 December 1996) was a Russian physicist who was a leading scientist in the former Soviet program of nuclear weapons.[1][2]

Since the initiation of the Soviet program of developing the atomic bomb by Joseph Stalin in 1943, Khariton was the "chief nuclear weapon designer" and remained associated with the Soviet program for nearly four decades. In honour of the centennial of his birthday in 2004, his image appeared on a Russian postal stamp by the Russian government.[3]

  1. ^ Sublette, Carey (19 December 1996). "Yuli Khariton". nuclearweaponarchive.org. nuclearweaponarchive. Retrieved 20 April 2017.
  2. ^ Dalyell, Tam (23 December 1996). "Obituary: Yuli Khariton". The Independent. Independent Russia Bureau. Independent. Archived from the original on 7 May 2022. Retrieved 20 April 2017.
  3. ^ "Yuli B. Khariton". Atomic Heritage Foundation. Retrieved 20 April 2017.