Barys Kit

Barys Kit (Russian Кит, Борис Владимирович ) ( born April 6, 1910 in Saint Petersburg, Russian Empire ) is a Belarusian mathematician, physicist and chemist.

Life

As the son of a postal worker Barys Kit fled family in 1918, due to the October Revolution to Belarus, the home of his father, in the vicinity of the village Ogorodniki. He studied at the University of Vilnius physics and mathematics and was also rector. In 1939 he returned due to the German occupation of his homeland, where he was rector in Nawahradak. During the Second World War, Kit worked as a teacher and was detained by the Security Service of the Reichsführer- SS for a month in prison. In 1944 he moved with his family to Germany and in 1948 in the United States where kit in Los Angeles, worked as a chemist in the North American Aviation company. In the 1950s he worked for 25 years at the U.S. space Behöre on Apollo and other projects. Barys Kit wrote the first handbook for rocket fuel, which had received a lot of positive criticism. He is a critic of the authoritarian Lukashenko regime. In 1972 he moved to Frankfurt, where he still lives today.