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Mar 15, 1908 Žagarė, Šiauliai County, Lithuania Died on 28 Dec 1984 (aged 76)
Soviet physicist
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About Isaak Kikoin
- Isaak Konstantinovich Kikoin (Russian: ????? ?????????????? ??????) (March 28, 1908, Žagare, Lithuania, Russian Empire – December 28, 1984, Moscow, USSR) was a leading Soviet physicist and academician of the Academy of Sciences of the USSR.
- He was awarded the Stalin State Prize a total of four times (1942, 1949, 1951, 1953), the Lenin Prize in 1959, and the USSR State Prize in 1967 and 1980.
- Kikoin was named a Hero of Socialist Labor (1951); he also won the Kurchatov Medal (1971).Kikoin was with Igor Kurchatov as one of the founders of the Kurchatov Atomic Energy Institute, which developed the first Soviet nuclear reactor in 1946.
- This was the lead-in to the Soviet atomic bomb project with the first atomic bomb test taking place in 1949. In 1970, Kikoin (jointly with Andrey Kolmogorov) started issuing Kvant magazine, a popular science magazine in physics and mathematics for school students and teachers.
