Samwel Grigoryevich Kocharyanz
Samvel Grigorjewitsch Kotscharjanz ( Armenian Սամվել Գրիգորի Քոչարյանց , Russian Самвел Григорьевич Кочарянц ; born January 7 . Jul / 20th January 1909 greg. In New Beyazid ; † 4. August 1993 in Sarov ) was an Armenian - Soviet electrical engineer and nuclear technician .
Life
Kocharyanz was the sixth child in an Armenian family. He began his studies at the University of Yerevan , which banned him from studying after being denounced . He then went to Moscow in 1930 and worked in Factory No. 24. From 1933 he studied electrical engineering at the Moscow Energy Institute (MEI) , graduating in 1937. He stayed there as an aspirant , attended lectures at the Chair of Theoretical Electrical Engineering and became a candidate in 1941 in science . He then worked at the MEI as a lecturer .
After the end of the German-Soviet War , Kocharyanz worked in occupied Germany to take over the German uranium project . From September 1947 he worked as part of the Soviet atomic bomb project in the secret nuclear research institute KB-11 in Arsamas-16 on the development of nuclear weapons as head of the department for system automation. He designed the ignition mechanism for the first Soviet atomic bomb . The development of the hydrogen bomb followed . In 1958 Kocharyanz received his doctorate in technical sciences without a dissertation . In 1959 he became the main designer.
In 1962 Kocharyanz was appointed professor. He expanded his activities and founded departments for ballistics , for mechanics and micromechanics and for optics and light guides . In 1966, in addition to his work in Arsamas-16, he became scientific director of the branch in Gorki for the design and construction of radio-technical devices, especially sensors (until 1973).
While Kocharyanz was still alive , his bronze bust was set up in the central square of his hometown Gawar .
Honors
- Stalin Prize (1949, 1951, 1953)
- Order of Lenin (1953, 1954, 1956, 1962, 1979, 1984)
- Lenin Prize (1961)
- Hero of Socialist Labor (1962, 1984)
- Honored Scientist and Technician of the RSFSR (1969)
- Anniversary medal "In memory of the 100th birthday of Vladimir Ilyich Lenin"
- Order of the October Revolution (1971)
- State Prize of the USSR (1977)
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b В НАН Армении отметили 100-летие ученого-ядерщика Самвела Кочарянца (accessed October 3, 2016).
- ↑ Н. Н. Богуненко, А. Д. Пелипенко, Г. А. Соснин: Герои атомного проекта: Кочарянц Самвел Григорьевич . Росатом, Саров 2005, p. 199-201 .
- ↑ Сергеем Кащеевым: Кочарянц Самвел Григорьевич (accessed October 4, 2016).
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Kocharyanz, Samwel Grigoryevich |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Սամվել Գրիգորի Քոչարյանց (hyS); Кочарянц, Самвел Григорьевич (Russian) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Armenian-Russian electrical engineer and nuclear weapons technician |
| DATE OF BIRTH | January 20, 1909 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | New Beyazid |
| DATE OF DEATH | 4th August 1993 |
| Place of death | Sarov |