Kurchatov and Physical-Technical Institute (Ioffe Institute)

The hundred years of the Ioffe Institute is a glorious history of scientific discoveries and achievements and ambitious projects, which had far-reaching effects on the development of the economy and the defense capability of our country. Igor Vasilyevich Kurchatov is the most striking and significant person in the cohort of outstanding scientists, science administrators brought-up by the scientific school of Academician Abram Fedorovich Ioffe at the Leningrad Physical-Technical Institute (LFTI). The projects headed by I.V.Kurchatov predetermined the development of the LFTI itself. In addition to both of them, this essay has one more hero, A.F.Ioffe, who was not only the teacher, but also an elder friend of Kurchatov, and invariably supported his younger colleague at hard times of his life. However, the LFTI of that time and the first Director of the Institute, Ioffe, are certainly inseparable entities.

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I.V.Kurchatov, A.F.Ioffe, Leningrad Physical-Technical Institute, ferroelectricity, nuclear physics, cyclotron, demagnetization of naval ships, Armor laboratory, soviet atomic project, Laboratory №2, controlled thermonuclear fusion

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15.10.2018

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GOST	Zabrodskii A. Kurchatov and Physical-Technical Institute (Ioffe Institute) // Priroda – 2018. – Issue №9 C. 60-71 [Electronic resource]. URL: http://ras.jes.su/priroda/s207987840001110-0-1-en (circulation date: 20.04.2024). DOI: 10.31857/S0032874X0000886-3
MLA	Zabrodskii, A. "Kurchatov and Physical-Technical Institute (Ioffe Institute)." Priroda 9 (2018):60-71. DOI: 10.31857/S0032874X0000886-3
APA	Zabrodskii A. (2018). Kurchatov and Physical-Technical Institute (Ioffe Institute). Priroda (9), pp.60-71 DOI: 10.31857/S0032874X0000886-3

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