Main Page | See live article | Alphabetical index Igor Kurchatov (January 8, 1903 - February 7, 1960) was the chief scientist working under Stalin to develop a Soviet nuclear bomb (1949) and later Soviet hydrogen bomb (1953). Later in life, he advocated against nuclear bomb tests and worked over peaceful nuclear applications. This article is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by fixing it. This article is from Wikipedia. All text is available under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License.