Kirill Shchelkin

Kirill Shchelkin
Native name Кирилл Иванович Щёлкин
Born (1911-05-17)17 May 1911
Tbilisi, Georgia
Died 8 November 1968(1968-11-08) (aged 57)
Moscow, Russia
Alma mater Tavrida National V.I. Vernadsky University
Known for First scientific director at Chelyabinsk-70
Awards Hero of Socialist Labor (1949,1951,1954)
Scientific career
Fields Detonation, explosives
Institutions Arzamas-16, Chelyabinsk-70

Kirill Ivanovich Shchelkin (17 May 1911 – 8 November 1968) was a Soviet scientist involved in the development of Soviet nuclear weapons, particularly the physics of combustion and explosion. He was Russian Ethnicity.[1][2] He graduated in 1932 from the Crimean Institute in Simferopol and became the department head at Arzamas-16 responsible for the development of shaped explosive charges used in nuclear implosion type weapons. He served as first scientific director at Chelyabinsk-70 from 1955–1960.

Awards and honors

Shchelkin was a Hero of Socialist Labor a total of three times (1949, 1953, and 1956).

Legacy

His name was given to the Shchelkin spiral, a device in a combustion chamber used to facilitate the deflagration to detonation transition.

Town Shchyolkino (Щёлкино) is named after Kirill Shchelkin.

References

  1. ↑ 17 мая отмечается 100-летие со дня рождения ученого-атомщика Кирилла Щелкина — Российская газета
  2. ↑ http://www.warheroes.ru/hero/hero.asp?Hero_id=9124

Sources

  • Cochran, T.; S. Norris (1993). Russian/Soviet Nuclear Warhead Production (PDF). Natural Resources Defense Council (NWD 93-1). p. 191.
  • Frank-Kamenetskiĭ, D A (1969). "Kirill Ivanovich Shchelkin (Obituary)". Sov. Phys. Usp. 12: 305–306. doi:10.1070/PU1969v012n02ABEH003944.


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