- Georgy Flyorov
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name =Georgy Nikolayevich Flyorov
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birth_date =March 2 ,1913
birth_place =Rostov-on-Don
death_date =November 19 ,1990
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footnotes =Georgy Nikolayevich Flyorov ( _ru. Гео́ргий Никола́евич Флёров) (
March 2 ,1913 –November 19 ,1990 ) was a prominent Soviet nuclear physicist.Biography
Flyorov was born in
Rostov-on-Don and attended theLeningrad Polytechnic Institute (now known as theSt. Petersburg State Polytechnic University ) and majored in thermal physics andnuclear physics .He is known for writing to Stalin in April 1942 and pointing out the conspicuous silence within the field of
nuclear fission in theUnited States ,Great Britain , andGermany . Flyorov's urgings led to the eventual development of the USSR's own atomic bomb project.He also claims as his discovery two
transition metal elements:seaborgium andbohrium .He founded the Flyorov Laboratory of Nuclear Reactions in
Dubna In 1957, and acted as director there until 1989. Also during this period, he chaired the Scientific Council of the USSR Academy of Sciences.External links
* [http://159.93.28.88/flnr/flerov/dates.html Significant Flerov Dates ]
* [http://alsos.wlu.edu/qsearch.aspx?browse=people/Flerov,+Georgi Annotated bibliography of Georgy Flerov from the Alsos Digital Library]
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