Venedikt Petrovich Dzhelepov (russian: Венедикт Петрович Джелепов) (April 12, 1913 in

Moscow Moscow ( , US chiefly ; rus, links=no, Москва, r=Moskva, p=mɐskˈva, a=Москва.ogg) is the capital and largest city of Russia. The city stands on the Moskva River in Central Russia, with a population estimated at 13.0 million ...

– March 12, 1999) was a Soviet

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Biography

He educated at Leningrad Industrial Institute. A couple of years upon graduation in 1937 he began in 1939 working with I. V. Kurchatov on the first in Europe cyclotron in the Radium Institute. The joint researches with Kurchatov determined Dzhelepov's entire further career. In August 1943, Dzhelepov joined the group of the first staff members of Laboratory No. 2 which is now known as the Kurchatov Atomic Energy Institute for solving uranium problem. In 1948 Dzhelepov was given by Kurchatov a new task as deputy director of the new Laboratory being developed in

Dubna Dubna ( rus, Дубна́, p=dʊbˈna) is a town in Moscow Oblast, Russia. It has a status of ''naukograd'' (i.e. town of science), being home to the Joint Institute for Nuclear Research, an international nuclear physics research center and one o ...

(later became the Institute for Nuclear Problems within the USSR Academy of Sciences (he held this position in 1948-1956). Later he was appointed the Director of Laboratory for Nuclear Problems at

Joint Institute for Nuclear Research The Joint Institute for Nuclear Research (JINR, russian: Объединённый институт ядерных исследований, ОИЯИ), in Dubna, Moscow Oblast (110 km north of Moscow), Russia, is an international research cen ...

in Dubna (1956-1988). Since 1989 worked as its Honorary Director.

Awards

Stalin Prize Stalin Prize may refer to: * The State Stalin Prize in science and engineering and in arts, awarded 1941 to 1954, later known as the USSR State Prize The USSR State Prize (russian: links=no, Государственная премия СССР, ...

(twice 1951 and 1953) *

Order of Lenin The Order of Lenin (russian: Орден Ленина, Orden Lenina, ), named after the leader of the Russian October Revolution, was established by the Central Executive Committee on April 6, 1930. The order was the highest civilian decoration b ...

(1951) *

Order of the October Revolution The Order of the October Revolution (russian: Орден Октябрьской Революции, ''Orden Oktyabr'skoy Revolyutsii'') was instituted on October 31, 1967, in time for the 50th anniversary of the October Revolution. It was conferr ...

(1983) *

Order of the Red Banner of Labour The Order of the Red Banner of Labour (russian: Орден Трудового Красного Знамени, translit=Orden Trudovogo Krasnogo Znameni) was an order of the Soviet Union established to honour great deeds and services to th ...

(twice 1962 and 1974) *

Order of Friendship The Order of Friendship (russian: Орден Дружбы, ') is a state decoration of the Russian Federation established by Boris Yeltsin by presidential decree 442 of 2 March 1994 to reward Russian and foreign nationals whose work, deeds a ...

(1996) * Kurchatov Gold Medal (1986)

Memory

Monument Bruno Pontecorvo meet Venedikt Dzhelepov in Dubna

* Laboratory of Nuclear Problems of Joint Institute for Nuclear Research (JINR) created by Venedikt Dzhelepov now bears his name * In Dubna there is a monument established showing the outdoor meeting of Dzhelepov and

Bruno Pontecorvo Bruno Pontecorvo (; russian: Бру́но Макси́мович Понтеко́рво, ''Bruno Maksimovich Pontecorvo''; 22 August 1913 – 24 September 1993) was an Italian and Soviet nuclear physicist, an early assistant of Enrico Fermi an ...

* One of the Dubna streets is named after Dzherelov

Notes

1913 births 1999 deaths 20th-century Russian physicists Scientists from Moscow Communist Party of the Soviet Union members {{Russia-physicist-stub Corresponding Members of the Russian Academy of Sciences Corresponding Members of the USSR Academy of Sciences Peter the Great St. Petersburg Polytechnic University alumni Officers of the Order of Merit of the Republic of Poland Stalin Prize winners Recipients of the Medal of Zhukov Recipients of the Order of Lenin Recipients of the Order of the Red Banner of Labour Russian physicists Soviet military personnel of the Winter War Soviet physicists