Oleg Lavrentiev
Oleg Lavrentiev | |
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Олег Лаврентьев | |
| Born | July 26, 1926 Pskov, Russian SFSR, Soviet Union |
| Died | February 10, 2011 (aged 84) Kharkiv, Ukraine |
| Citizenship | Russia |
| Alma mater | Kharkiv Institute of Physics and Technology |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Physics |
| Website | iter.org |
Oleg Alexandrovich Lavrentiev (Ukrainian: Лаврентьєв Олег Олександрович; July 7, 1926 – February 10, 2011) was a physicist who worked on the Soviet atomic bomb project and whose research contributions were fundamental to the understanding of thermonuclear fusion.