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Kistiakowsky
Kistiakowsky is a surname. Notable people with the surname include: * Alexander Kistiakowsky (1904–1983), Ukrainian ornithologist * George Kistiakowsky (1900–1982), Ukrainian-American physical chemist * Vera Kistiakowsky (1928–2021), American physicist {{surname ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
George Kistiakowsky
George Bogdanovich Kistiakowsky (, ; – December 7, 1982) was a Ukrainian-American physical chemistry professor at Harvard who participated in the Manhattan Project and later served as President Dwight D. Eisenhower's Science Advisor. Born in Boyarka in the old Russian Empire, into "an old Ukrainian Cossack family which was part of the intellectual elite in pre-revolutionary Russia", Kistiakowsky fled his homeland during the Russian Civil War. He made his way to Germany, where he earned his PhD in physical chemistry under the supervision of Max Bodenstein at the University of Berlin. He emigrated to the United States in 1926, where he joined the faculty of Harvard University in 1930, and became a citizen in 1933. During World War II, Kistiakowsky was the head of the National Defense Research Committee (NDRC) section responsible for the development of explosives, and the technical director of the Explosives Research Laboratory (ERL), where he oversaw the development of n ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alexander Kistiakowsky
Oleksandr Bohdanovych Kistiakivskyi (; 13 August 1904 – 22 June 1983) was a Ukrainian ornithologist and a specialist on bird lice. He was a brother of George Kistiakowsky. His contributions to ornithology included ideas on navigation by migrating birds, the mechanics of bird flight, and the publication of several regional avifaunas. Oleksandr was born in Khatky, Poltava. Oleksandr's father Bohdan was a lawyer, philosopher, sociologist, and a professor at the University of Kyiv. Bohdan's father, Oleksandr, was also a renowned professor of Criminal Law at the University of Kyiv. A leftist revolutionary, Bohdan died in 1920. Oleksandr had three siblings, one died in Poland, while two others became scientists. George fled to Germany and influenced by his uncle Volodymyr Kistiakivskyi, a pioneer in electrochemistry, studied physics and chemistry. He moved to the US in 1926 and joined Harvard University, heading a department in the Los Alamos National Laboratory from 1944 to 1945. At ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
