Yuri Trutnev (scientist)
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Yuri Alexeyevich Trutnev (Russian: Ю́рий Алексе́евич Тру́тнев) (born November 2, 1927, Moscow) is a Soviet-Russian physicist who is best known for his involvement in the development of the AN602 hydrogen bomb (or Tsar Bomba), the most powerful nuclear weapon ever detonated. Its October 30, 1961 test remains the most powerful artificial explosion in human history (estimated at about 50 megatons of TNT)[1].
Since the 1990s, he has been the Director of the VNIIEF Russian Nuclear Labs, located at the Nizhni-Novgorod Oblast, Sarov.
Trutnev is a member of the Russian Academy of Science and a Doctor of Technical Sciences.
Honours and awards
- Order "For Merit to the Fatherland" 1st class (2017)[2], 2nd class (2003), 3rd class (1998), 4th class (2012)
- Hero of Socialist Labor (1962)
- Lenin Prize (1959)
References
- ^ "Big Ivan, The Tsar Bomba ("King of Bombs")". The Nuclear Weapon Archive. 3 September 2007. Retrieved 28 June 2010.
- ^ Академик Трутнев стал полным кавалером ордена "За заслуги перед Отечеством"
This article includes content derived from the Great Soviet Encyclopedia, 1969–1978, which is partially in the public domain.
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- Recipients of the Order "For Merit to the Fatherland", 3rd class
- Corresponding Members of the USSR Academy of Sciences
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