Hariton brief biography

Khariton Julius on February 14, grave Khariton Julia. Novodevichy Cemetery, Moscow. One of the leaders of the Soviet atomic bomb project. Kurchatov Big Golden Medal named after M. Lomonosov Julius Khariton was born in St. Petersburg in a Jewish family. His father, Boris Khariton, was a famous journalist, and his mother, Mirra Burovskaya, was an actress. The Bolsheviks sent his father in together with other ideologically alien intellectuals on a notorious steamer abroad.

Julius Khariton, jumping through the class, graduated from school at the age of 15, at the age of 21 the Polytechnic Institute. B - an internship at the Kaverndish laboratory Cambridge, England. Under the leadership of Ernest Rutherford and James Chadwick, he received the degree of Doctor of Philosophy. From the software - the head of the explosion laboratory at the Institute of Chemical Physics, scientific work on detonation, combustion theory and explosion dynamics.

C-Doctor of Physical and Mathematical Sciences. Khariton Julius.

The best physicists of the USSR were involved in the work on the implementation of the nuclear-malign program under his leadership. In the situation of the strictest secrecy in Sarov, work was carried out, which ended with the test of Soviet atomic on August 29 and hydrogen bombs. In August, the Americans drop atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Beria is entrusted to the head of the atomic project.

The scientific leadership is entrusted to the forty -year -old professor Khariton. He will become the father of the Soviet atomic bomb. The person who knew this bomb by heart, all its thousands of details, and who, who could be his career and, can be said, was responsible for the results of the tests, headed by his career. This man was Julius Borisovich Khariton. In the Soviet Union until the end of the X, the surname Khariton was not heard, I did not want to give the laurels of the creator of the atomic bomb Jew.

Invented, developed and created a bomb by Julius Borisovich Khariton and his associates. In subsequent years, Khariton worked on reducing the weight of nuclear charges, increasing their power and increasing reliability. The father of the Soviet atomic bomb Julius Borisovich Khariton lived a long life. He died on December 18 at the summer in the city of Sarov of the Nizhny Novgorod region.

He was buried in the Novodevichy cemetery in Moscow. He signed a letter condemning Academician Sakharov, who worked under his beginning for many years and was the creator of a hydrogen bomb. He lived half of his life in the closed city of Sarov, about whom no one in the country knew, only with those who were allowed to be the KGB. He gave his talent and his life to serving the Soviet Union, but when he died for a funeral at the Novodevichy cemetery, only relatives and colleagues-scientists came.

None of the leaders of the power, for whom Khariton did what determined the course of world history did not come to the funeral. A memorial plaque in honor of Khariton Julia. Tverskaya st.