Biografia de igor kurchatov biography

Igor Vasilyevich Kurchatov was born on January 8, 1903, in Simsky Zavod, Ufa Guberniya (now the city of Sim, Chelyabinsk Oblast).

He studied physics at Crimea State University, graduating in 1923, and shipbuilding at the Polytechnical Institute in Petrograd.

Biografia de igor kurchatov biography

In 1925, he moved to the Physico-Technical Institute, where he worked under Abram Fedorovich Ioffe on various problems connected with radioactivity. In 1932, he received funding for his own nuclear science research team, which built the Soviet Union's first cyclotron.

With the outbreak of World War II, Kurchatov joined a group that was working on protecting ships from magnetic mines.

In 1943, under Ioffe's recommendation, he was appointed director of the Soviet atomic weapons program. This project remained a relatively low priority until information from spy Klaus Fuchs and later the destruction of Hiroshima and Nagasaki goaded Stalin into action.

Stalin ordered Kurchatov to produce a bomb by 194