Anatoly Alexandrov (physicist)

Anatoly Alexandrov
Анатолий Александров
A.P. Alexandrov (1903–94), ca. in 1976.
Born	Anatoly Petrovich Aleksandrov (1903-02-13)13 February 1903 Tarashcha, Tarashchansky Uyezd, Kiev Governorate, Russia (now Tarashcha in Kyiv, Ukraine)
Died	February 3, 1994(1994-02-03) (aged 90) Moscow, Russia
Resting place	Mitinskoe Cemetery
Siglum	A. P. Alexandrov
Citizenship	Russia
Alma mater	Kiev University
Known for	Soviet atomic bomb project Nuclear marine propulsion
Relatives	Eugene Alexandrov (Nephew)
Awards	Lomonosov Gold Medal Hero of Socialist Labor Lenin Prize Stalin Prize
Scientific career
Fields	Physics
Institutions	Laboratory No. 2 Institute for Physical Problems Leningrad Polytechnic Institute Kiev Institute of Health
Thesis	Relaxation in Polymers  (1941)
Doctoral students	Yuri Semenovich Lazurkin
Website	A.P Alexandrov

Anatoly Petrovich Alexandrov (Russian: Анатолий Петрович Александров, 13 February 1903 – 3 February 1994) was a Russian physicist who played a crucial and centralizing role in the former Soviet program of nuclear weapons.

During his lifetime, Alexandrov was the recipient of many honors, civil citations, and state awards for this work and was also the director of the Kurchatov Institute and the President of the Soviet Academy of Sciences from 1975 until 1986.