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Yulii Khariton was born on 27 February, 1904 in Saint Petersburg, Russian Empire, is a Russian physicist and scientist. Discover Yulii Khariton's Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. Learn How rich is he in this year and how he spends money? Also learn how he earned most of networth at the age of 92 years old?

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Age 92 years old
Zodiac Sign Pisces
Born 27 February, 1904
Birthday 27 February
Birthplace Saint Petersburg, Russian Empire
Date of death 19 December, 1996
Died Place Sarov, Russia
Nationality Russia

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1904

Yulii Borisovich Khariton (Юлий Борисович Харитон; 27 February 1904 – 19 December 1996) was a Soviet physicist who was a leading scientist in the former Soviet Union's program of nuclear weapons.

Yulii Borisovich Khariton was born in Saint Petersburg, Russian Empire to an ethnic middle class Russian Jewish family, on 27 February 1904.

His father, Boris Osipovich Khariton, was a political journalist, an editor, and a publisher, who had attained a law degree from Kiev University in Ukraine.

His father worked for the newspaper Rech, the main organ of the Constitutional Democratic Party, and was a well known figure in the political circles of Russia.

1910

She left Russia in 1910 due to an illness that had to be treated at the European resort.

Yulii was six years old when his mother left him and was taken care by an Estonian woman, hired by his father while in exile in Latvia.

Yulii's mother never returned to Russia and divorced his father, only to marry her psychiatrist, Dr. Max Eitingon.

1917

After the Russian revolution dismantled the Tsarist autocracy in 1917, Boris Khariton had clashes with the Bolsheviks as he was at odds with Vladimir Lenin's Soviet ideology.

1920

In 1920, he enrolled in the Leningrad Polytechnical Institute to study mechanical engineering but later chose to study physics, which he found to be more stimulating.

He studied physics under Russian physicists, Abram Ioffe, Nikolay Semyonov, and Alexander Friedmann.

Khariton was particularly fascinated with the work of Semyonov whose research used the techniques of physics in chemistry, which Semyonov called "chemical physics.".

Khariton's talent was recognised by Semyonov who supported his research project in investigations of the light-emitting ability of phosphorus combined with oxygen, and reported the results in both the German and Russian languages.

1922

His father was exiled to the Baltic states from Russia in 1922 at the age of forty six along with professors and journalists on one of the so-called Philosophers' ships, subsequently working for an emigrant newspaper in Latvia.

1926

In 1926, Khariton completed his degree in physics from the Leningrad Polytechnical Institute and ended his research project as he prepared for his first foreign trip to England.

Before departing, he was introduced to Pyotr Kapitsa by Semyonov who asked the latter to help Yulii secure a fellowship at the Cavendish Laboratory in England.

In England, Khariton attended the University of Cambridge to do his doctoral in physics under Ernest Rutherford in 1926.

At Cambridge, he worked with James Chadwick on investigating the sensitivity of the eye with respect to weak light impulses and alpha radiation.

1928

Khariton earned his PhD in 1928 from Cambridge University.

In 1928, Khariton decided to take up the residence in (Germany) to be near his mother, but was appalled and frightened by the political propaganda of the Nazi Party in Germany; therefore returning to Soviet Union while his mother left for Palestine.

1931

In 1931, he joined the Institute of Chemical Physics and eventually headed the explosion laboratory until 1946, working closely with another Russian physicist Yakov Zeldovich, on exothermic chemical chain reactions.

1933

Having lived in Germany, Mirra moved to Tel Aviv in Palestine in 1933, where she remained until her death.

She is buried in Jerusalem.

Yulii was forbidden to contact his parents after he had started classified work in the Soviet Union.

His travels were highly restricted by the Soviet Union and later by Russia.

Yulii was home schooled by his Estonian housekeeper, hired by his father, who taught him the German language.

At the age of eleven, he began attending regular school.

In Saint Petersburg, he went to attend a trade school which he completed at the age of fifteen and found work at a local mechanical workshop where he learned how to operate various machinery as a machinist.

1935

In 1935, he received his doctorate in physical and mathematical sciences.

During this period, Khariton and Zeldovich conducted experiments on the chain reactions of uranium.

1939

In August 1939, Zeldovich, Khariton and Aleksandr Leipunskii delivered papers on the theoretical process behind nuclear fission chain reactions at a conference in Kharkiv, Ukraine; this was the last pre-war discussion of chain reactions in the USSR.

During World War II, Khariton's knowledge of the physics of explosions was used in experimental studies on Soviet and foreign weaponry, while continuing his leadership of the Institute of Chemical Physics.

1940

His father, Boris Khariton, remained there until Latvia's annexation by the Soviet Union in 1940 and, at the age of sixty-four, was then arrested by the NKVD and sentenced to seven years of forced labour in a Gulag where he died.

Yulii's mother, Mirra Yakovlevna Burovskaya, was a theatre actress who performed at the Moscow Art Theatre.

1943

Since the initiation of the Soviet program of developing the atomic bomb by Joseph Stalin in 1943, Khariton was the "chief nuclear weapon designer" and remained associated with the Soviet program for nearly four decades.

Physicist Igor Kurchatov asked Khariton to become part of the Soviet atomic project in 1943, in Laboratory No. 2 of the Russian Academy of Sciences.

1945

In May 1945, as part of a team of physicists sent to Berlin to investigate Nazi atomic bomb research, Khariton found 100 tonnes of uranium oxide, which was transported back to Moscow; this reduced development time for domestic plutonium production.

After the bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, a Special Committee was established including Kurchatov and Khariton.

1946

Khariton was made scientific director of KB-11 (design bureau-11) also known as Arzamas-16 and colloquially as the 'Installation', located in the closed city of Sarov, Nizhny Novgorod Oblast to develop Soviet nuclear weapons (the organisation is now known as the All-Russian Scientific Research Institute of Experimental Physics (VNIIEF). Khariton remained as its scientific director for 46 years. Along with other senior scientists, he was regarded as too important to fly and had his own private train carriage. He was elected as a corresponding member of the Academy of Sciences of the Soviet Union in 1946, and as a full member in 1953.

1949

In 1949, he and Kirill Shchelkin reported to the Special Committee on the progress of the first Soviet nuclear weapon, the RDS-1, which was tested on 29 August that year.

2004

In honour of the centennial of his birthday in 2004, his image appeared on a Russian postal stamp by the Russian government.