Yuri Trutnev (scientist)

Yuri Trutnev
Юрий Трутнев
Trutnev in 2013
Born(1927-11-02)2 November 1927
Died6 August 2021(2021-08-06) (aged 93)
NationalityRussian
Citizenship Russia
Alma materLeningrad State University
Known forSoviet atomic bomb project
AwardsSee honors
Scientific career
FieldsPhysics
Institutions

Yuri Alexeyevich Trutnev (Russian: Юрий Алексеевич Трутнев; 2 November 1927 – 6 August 2021)[1] was a Russian physicist and a professor of engineering at the National Research Nuclear University MEPhI (Moscow Engineering Physics Institute).

His career in physics spent in the former Soviet program of development of nuclear weapons and was one the designers in the RDS-37 (the Soviet Union's first two-stage thermonuclear device), and the RDS-220 (the largest-ever-yield nuclear device) and many other nuclear charges.

  1. ^ "Умер "отец" российского ядерного оружия академик Юрий Трутнев" (in Russian). RIA Novosti. 6 August 2021. Retrieved 6 August 2021.