Word: kurchatov
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...London Airport on courier missions. He sent Soviet Plane Designer Andrei Tupolev to look at the Britannia, Britain's latest turboprop liner, and Tupolev emerged remarking: "An impressive airplane, but we are building a bigger turboprop, which will carry 170 passengers." He sent Soviet Atomic Expert Igor V. Kurchatov to Harwell to deliver a lecture that left British scientists much impressed (see SCIENCE...
Last week Russian Physicist Igor V. Kurchatov, speaking at Britain's Harwell Atomic Energy Research Establishment, brought the subject of controlled fusion into the open. As early as 1950, said Kurchatov, Soviet scientists made theoretical studies about it. They started actual laboratory work in 1952, the year the U.S. achieved its first full-scale thermonuclear explosion...
...speech Kurchatov obviously did not tell all he knows, but he did make a closer public approach to one aspect of controlled fusion than anyone has made before. Far from sticking to generalities, he went into technical detail-with photographs, curves and figures...