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George Kistiakowsky
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George Kistiakowsky's ID badge photo from Los Alamos.
George Bogdan Kistiakowsky (November 18, 1900 – December 7, 1982) was a chemistry professor at Harvard who participated in the Manhattan Project. Born in Kyiv, Ukraine, he attended private schools in Kyiv and Moscow until the Russian Revolution broke out in 1917. He was imprisoned by the Bolsheviks but later escaped to Germany, where he received his P.H.D in 1925. He joined the Manhattan Project in 1944, replacing Seth Neddermeyer as head of the implosion department. Under his leadership came the complex explosive lenses needed to compress the plutonium sphere uniformly to achieve critical mass.
- Annotated bibliography for George Kistiakowsky from the Alsos Digital Library for Nuclear Issues
- Online biography from Los Alamos National Laboratory
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