Andrei Sakharov

Andrei Sakharov

male, deceased (1989)
Nobel Peace Prize laureate, Soviet physicist, Nobel Peace Prize, Hero of Socialist Labor, Member of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Soviet dissident…nuclear physics, soviet, Sovietnuclearprogram, nuclear, Union of Soviet Republics
Andrei Dmitrievich Sakharov (May 21 1921 – December 14 1989) was an eminent Soviet nuclear physicist, dissident and human rights activist. Sa...
Klaus Fuchs

Klaus Fuchs

male, deceased (1988)
theoretical physics, World War II, German, Columbia University alumni, Manhattan Project, Cold War spy…Soviet spy, Sovietnuclearprogram, Nuclear physicist, Nuclear secrecy
Emil Julius Klaus Fuchs (December 29, 1911 - January 28, 1988) was a German-born theoretical physicist and atomic spy who was convicted of...
Lavrentiy Beria

Lavrentiy Beria

male, deceased (1953)
Nkvd, Katyn, Hero of Socialist Labor, Political repression in the Soviet Union, death by firearm in Russia, Marshal of the Soviet Union…soviet, Soviet politician, Sovietnuclearprogram, Soviet execution, Soviet repressions
Lavrentiy Pavlovich Beria (Georgian: ლავრენტი ბერია, Lavrenti Pavles dze Beria; Russian: Лаврентий Павлович Берия; 29 March, 1899 – 23...
Theodore Hall

Theodore Hall

male, deceased (1999)
atomic bomb, Soviet spy, atomic spy, fat man, From Queen, physicist…Nuclear secrecy, Sovietnuclearprogram, soviet union, Soviet Embassy
Theodore Alvin Hall (October 20, 1925 - November 1, 1999) was an American physicist and an atomic spy for the Soviet Union who, during his work on...
Pavel Sudoplatov

Pavel Sudoplatov

male, deceased (1996)
assassination, Manhattan Project, Cold War, Soviet spy, Sovietnuclearprogram, Nkvd
Pavel Sudoplatov was a member of the intelligence services of the Soviet Union who rose to the rank of lieutenant general. He was involved in...
Yakov Borisovich Zel'Dovich

Yakov Borisovich Zel'Dovich

male, deceased (1987)
Doctor of Science, nuclear physics, Hero of Socialist Labor, catalysis, nuclear weapon, kazan…Soviet physicist, Sovietnuclearprogram, nuclear and thermonuclear weapons
Yakov Borisovich Zel'dovich was a prolific Soviet physicist. He played an important role in the development of Soviet nuclear and thermonuclear...
Vitaly Ginzburg

Vitaly Ginzburg

male, 93 years old
Jewish, Astrophysicist, Theoretical physicist, astrophysics, Foreign Member of the Royal Society, Alumni and faculty of Moscow State University…soviet, Soviet physicist, Sovietnuclearprogram
Vitaly Lazarevich Ginzburg (born October 4 1916 in Moscow) is a Russian (formerly Soviet) theoretical physicist and astrophysicist, a member of the...

Boris Vannikov

male, deceased (1962)
Hero of Socialist Labor, soviet, Sovietnuclearprogram, Stalin Prize winner, Heroes of Socialist Labor, USSR State Prize…Soviet atomic bomb project
Boris Lvovich Vannikov, Soviet government and military official, a three-star General. People's Commissar for Armament from January 1939 through...
Alan Nunn May

Alan Nunn May

male, deceased (2003)
German, Heavy Water, University of Cambridge, radar, atomic reactor, Nuclear reactor technology…Soviet spy, Sovietnuclearprogram, Soviet controller, Soviet Embassy, recruited by Soviet military intelligence
Alan Nunn May (May 2, 1911-January 12, 2003) was a British physicist and a spy who supplied secrets of British and American atomic bomb research to...

Yulii Borisovich Khariton

male, deceased (1996)
Hero of Socialist Labor, Soviet physicist, physicist, soviet, Russian, Sovietnuclearprogram…Soviet atomic bomb
Yulii Borisovich Khariton was a Soviet physicist working in the field of atomic energy. He was the chief designer of the Soviet atomic bomb, and...