Yuri Trutnev | |
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Юрий Трутнев | |
Born | |
Died | 6 August 2021 | (aged 93)
Nationality | Russian |
Citizenship | Russia |
Alma mater | Leningrad State University |
Known for | Soviet atomic bomb project |
Awards | See honors |
Scientific career | |
Fields | Physics |
Institutions |
Yuri Alexeyevich Trutnev (Russian: Юрий Алексеевич Трутнев; 2 November 1927 – 6 August 2021)[1] was a Russian physicist and a professor of engineering at the National Research Nuclear University MEPhI (Moscow Engineering Physics Institute).
His career in physics spent in the former Soviet program of development of nuclear weapons and was one the designers in the RDS-37 (the Soviet Union's first two-stage thermonuclear device), and the RDS-220 (the largest-ever-yield nuclear device) and many other nuclear charges.