Biography yuli kharitonchik

Yuli Borisovich Khariton () was a leading scientist on the Soviet atomic bomb program. He is often called the &#;father of the Soviet atomic bomb.&#;

Early Years

Born into St.

Petersburg’s Jewish intellectual aristocracy, Khariton graduated from the Leningrad Polytechnical Institute in , where he worked under the guidance of Abram Ioffe, Director of the Institute’s Chemical Physics Department. He then attended the University of Cambridge, where he earned a Ph.D in physics in and studied under Ernest Rutherford, the “father of nuclear physics,” at the University’s Cavendish Laboratory.

Upon returning to the Soviet Union, Khariton focused his research on explosives.

In , he founded and directed the Institute of Chemical Physics’ Laboratory of Explosives. During this time, he worked towards another doctorate in physical and mathematical sciences, which he received in

During World War II, Khariton developed munitions for the Soviet Army and contributed to