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Yulii Khariton

1904 - 1996

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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. 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. Read more on Wikipedia

Her biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Yulii Khariton is the 581st most popular physicist (down from 418th in 2019), the 1,442nd most popular biography from Russia (down from 817th in 2019) and the 35th most popular Russian Physicist.

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Among PHYSICISTS

Among physicists, Yulii Khariton ranks 581 out of 851. Before her are Eric Allin Cornell, Étienne-Gaspard Robert, Wallace Clement Sabine, Norman Holter, Mark Oliphant, and Yakov Frenkel. After her are Antonio Pacinotti, Sergey Kapitsa, Georg Adolf Erman, Otto Lehmann, Sumio Iijima, and Michael Berry.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1904, Yulii Khariton ranks 203. Before her are François Marty, Subhadra Kumari Chauhan, Esmat Dowlatshahi, Rudolf Burkert, Clarence Nash, and Edgar G. Ulmer. After her are Pinhas Lavon, Ancel Keys, José Ruiz, Dick Powell, Jānis Daliņš, and Kenneth Bainbridge. Among people deceased in 1996, Yulii Khariton ranks 182. Before her are Aruna Asaf Ali, Arthur Rudolph, Arleigh Burke, Inger Jacobsen, Yahya Ayyash, and Og Mandino. After her are Jurandir de Freitas, Lew Ayres, Léo Malet, Kiyoshi Atsumi, José Lázaro Robles, and Kenneth Bainbridge.

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In Russia

Among people born in Russia, Yulii Khariton ranks 1,442 out of 3,761. Before her are Viktor Zolotov (1954), Yevgeni Bauer (1865), Eeva Kilpi (1928), Pyotr Chardynin (1873), Carl Enckell (1876), and Mikhail Katkov (1818). After her are Igor M. Diakonoff (1914), Vladislav Listyev (1956), Marfa Boretskaya (1450), Andrejs Pumpurs (1841), Nikolai Avksentiev (1878), and Apollinary Vasnetsov (1856).

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Among PHYSICISTS In Russia

Among physicists born in Russia, Yulii Khariton ranks 35. Before her are George Volkoff (1914), Vladimir Steklov (1864), Ludvig Faddeev (1934), Boris Rosing (1869), Lev Artsimovich (1909), and Yakov Frenkel (1894). After her are Aleksandr Stoletov (1839), Max Wien (1866), Barys Kit (1910), Alexander Markovich Polyakov (1945), Orest Khvolson (1852), and Aleksandr Andronov (1901).

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