Yuri Trutnev (scientist)
Yuri Trutnev | |
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Юрий Трутнев | |
Leningrad State University | |
Known for | Soviet atomic bomb project |
Awards | See honors |
Scientific career | |
Fields | Physics |
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Yuri Alexeyevich Trutnev (
His career in physics spent in the former
Career
He graduated from the Physics department of the
Trutnev began development of nuclear devices for industrial civilian purposes such as reservoir creation and gas field intensification, and devices which released very low amounts of ionising radiation. Yevgeny Avrorin described Trutnev producing the first "clean" nuclear charge, "a purely thermonuclear reaction" from a solid compound.[7][8]
Employees at Arzamas-16, including Trutnev, were upset that on a visit by Edward Teller and Siegfried S. Hecker (then director of the Los Alamos National Laboratory) to Russia after the break-up of the USSR, each was photographed in front of a model of the RDS-220 alongside scientists in Snezhinsk. Trutnev insisted that a new photograph be taken of Hecker at VNIIEF in front of a similar model, as it was he and his colleagues at VNIIEF in Sarov who designed the device.[9]
Trutnev was the editor-in-chief of the Atomic Science and Technology journal and deputy editor-in-chief of the International Scientific Journal for Alternative Energy and Ecology. He was one of the RAS members who were critical of proposed administrative changes to the RAS by the Russian state in 2013, changes which included the transfer of academic institutions and property (RAS election candidates must now be government-approved and the winner approved by the president).[2][10]
Awards
- 1956, 1962: Order of Lenin.
- 1959: Lenin Prize.
- 1962: Hero of Socialist Labour.
- 1972: Order of the October Revolution.
- 1975, 1987: Order of the Red Banner of Labour.
- 1984: State Prize of the USSR.
- 1998, 2003, 2012, 2017: Order "For Merit to the Fatherland" (3rd class, 2nd class, 4th class, 1st class).
- 2002: Kurchatov Medal.
References
- ^ "Умер "отец" российского ядерного оружия академик Юрий Трутнев" (in Russian). RIA Novosti. 6 August 2021. Retrieved 6 August 2021.
- ^ a b "Academician Trutnev Yuri Alekseevich - 85 years! (Академику Трутневу Юрию Алексеевичу - 85 лет!)". www.ras.nu. Retrieved 7 November 2018.
- ^ Gorelik, Gennady. "The Riddle of the Third Idea: How Did the Soviets Build a Thermonuclear Bomb So Suspiciously Fast?". blogs.scientificamerican.com. Retrieved 7 November 2018.
- S2CID 250861572. Retrieved 28 October 2018.
- ^ "Tsar Bomba". www.atomicheritage.org. Retrieved 7 November 2018.
- ^ "Big Ivan, The Tsar Bomba ("King of Bombs"): The World's Largest Nuclear Weapon". nuclearweaponarchive.org. Retrieved 7 November 2018.
- ^ a b "anniversaries and celebrations 2". www.vniief.ru. Retrieved 7 November 2018.
- ^ Gubarev, Vladimir (2015). "The Mysterious World of Explosions" (PDF). V Mire Nauki.
- ^ Libby, Stephen B.; Van Bibber, Karl A., eds. (2010). Edward Teller Centennial Symposium: Modern Physics And The Scientific Legacy Of Edward Teller. Singapore: World Scientific. pp. 11–12.
- ^ "Putin tightens control over Russian Academy of Sciences". www.sciencemag.org. Retrieved 7 November 2018.