Georgy flyorov biography
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Georgy Flerov
Georgy Flerov was a Soviet physicist.
Flerov was born in 1913 in Rostov-on-Don. Flerov studied at the Leningrad Polytechnic Institute and went on to work at the Leningrad Physics and Technology Institute under Igor Kurchatov.
Early Career
In 1940, Flerov along with Kurchatov, Yuli Khariton, and Mikhail Rusinov, submitted a research plan to the Soviet Academy of Sciences, “On the utilization of the energy of uranium fission in a chain reaction.” In conjunction with this, Flerov began to investigate the necessary conditions for a chain reaction in metallic uranium. While working on the project, Kurchatov assigned an experiment to Flerov and Konstantin Petrzhak to observe the flow of neutrons from uranium. They used an ionization chamber, which, much to their surprise, continued to register fission even after they removed the neutron source. The two had discovered spontaneous fission.
World War II
With the German invasion underway, Flerov joined the So
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Today marks 110th anniversary of birth of Georgy Flerov
On 2 March, the Joint Institute for Nuclear Research celebrates the 110th anniversary of the birth of an outstanding scientist Georgy Nikolaevich Flerov (1913–1990), Academician of the USSR Academy of Sciences, an author of several scientific discoveries, a founder and the first Director of the Laboratory of Nuclear Reactions JINR.
The future scientist was born in Rostov-on-Don. In 1938, Georgy Flerov graduated from the Engineering and Physics Faculty of Leningrad Industrial Institute. In 1936, he joined the laboratory of I. V. Kurchatov. Then, he moved to Kurchatov’s group at the A. F. Ioffe Physical-Technical Institute.
In 1939-1940, in collaboration with Lev Rusinov, Flerov demonstrated the emission of more than 2 neutrons in uranium nucleus fission. In 1940, together with Konstantin Petrzhak, he discovered a new kind of nuclear transmutation called uranium spontaneous fission.
At the beginning of the Great Patriotic
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Remembering founding fathers: Georgy Flerov
On 2 March, a prominent scientist Georgy Nikolaevich Flerov (1913-1990) was born. He was Academician of the USSR Academy of Sciences, an author of several scientific discoveries, a founder and the first Director of the Laboratory of Nuclear Reactions JINR.
In 1938, G. N. Flerov graduated from the Engineering and Physics Faculty of Leningrad Industrial Institute. In 1936, he began working at the laboratory of I. V. Kurchatov. Then, he moved to Kurchatov’s group at the A. F. Ioffe Physical-Technical Institute.
In 1939-1940, in collaboration with Lev Rusinov, Flerov demonstrated the emission of more than 2 neutrons in uranium nucleus fission. In 1940, together with Konstantin Petrzhak, he discovered a new kind of nuclear transmutation called uranium spontaneous fission.
At the beginning of the Great Patriotic War, Flerov took part in the battles to defend Leningrad. Later, he was called up for study at the Air Force Academy and