Konstantin Petrzhak

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Konstantin Petrzhak (1907-1998) was a Soviet physicist of Polish origin. He discovered spontaneous fission along with Georgy Flyorov in 1940 while studying Uranium.^[1]

Biography

Konstantin Petrzhak was born in Łuków on 3 September 1907. In 1936 he graduated from Saint Petersburg State University. Later he wrote thesis at First Radium Institute in Saint Petersburg. Vitaly Khlopin and Igor Kurchatov were his scientific advisors. Konstantin Petrzhak was one of the participants of soviet atomic bomb project.^[2] For his achievements in nuclear physics he was awarded Stalin prize in 1946 and in 1953. He died on October, 10 1998 and was buried in Saint Petersburg.

References

^ Flerov GN, Petrzhak KA (1940). "Journal of Physics (USSR)". III: 275–280. {{cite journal}}: Cite journal requires |journal= (help)
^ Petrzhak Konstantin Antonovich - "Great Russia. People."Template:Ref-ru

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