Georgy Flyorov

Georgi Nikolaevich Fljorow, sometimes cited Georgi Flerov, (Russian Георгий Николаевич Флёров; * 17 Februarjul / March 2 1913greg in Rostov-on- Don, .. † November 9, 1990 in Moscow) was a Soviet physicist. His research, nuclear physics, transuranic elements and cosmic radiation.

Life

After graduation Fljorow first worked in various jobs and then went to Leningrad, where he studied at the Engineering and Physics Faculty of the Polytechnic Institute from 1933 to 1938. A few months after graduation, he was offered a staff member of the working group of Igor Kurchatov at the Leningrad Physico -Technical Institute to be, which he readily accepted.

His first discovery was made Fljorow in 1939 together with his colleague Konstantin Petrschak by documented the spontaneous fission in the uranium -238. The next year they repeated their experiment, where they used one of the tunnels of the Moscow Metro in spectacular fashion in order to avoid any possible interference of the measurement by the cosmic radiation. Since the end of 1941 Fljorow was involved in the development of the Soviet atomic bomb, which he got in 1943 a PhD without having officially received his doctorate because his services were classified as "top secret" and were not allowed to be published.

Fljorow was from 1960 Head of the Laboratory of Nuclear Reactions at the nuclear research center in Dubna. In 1963 he discovered the proton radioactivity and 1964, the artificial element rutherfordium. Next synthesized Fljorow and his colleagues in Dubna for the first time the elements of 102 ( nobelium 1957 /68) and 105 ( Dubnium, 1967).

In honor Fljorows received the chemical element with atomic number 114 30 May 2012 officially named Flerovium. The Flerov prize of JINR is named after him.

He was Hero of Socialist Labor (1949 ), twice received the Order of Lenin (1949, 1983), was awarded in 1973 the Order of the October Revolution, three times the Red Banner of Labor (1959, 1963, 1975), twice the Stalin Prize (1946, 1949), the Lenin Prize in 1967 and 1975 the USSR State Prize.