Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists: Lev Artsimovich
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Lev Artsimovich
Lev Andreyevich Artsimovich, also transliterated Arzimowitsch, was a Soviet physicist known for his contributions to the Tokamak— a device that produces controlled thermonuclear fusion power.
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science · Soviet physicist (1909–1973) · physicist · inventor · university teacher · also Lev Artsimovich, Lev Andreyevich Artsimovich, Artsimovich
Born 12 February 1909 · Died 1 March 1973 · Q257879
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Our relationships as experimentalists with theoretical physicists should be like those with a beautiful woman – we should accept with gratitude any favours she offers, but we should not expect too much nor believe all that is said.
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1973· 5 entries
Died 1973-03-01.
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“Our relationships as experimentalists with theoretical physicists should be like those with a beautiful woman – we should accept with gratitude any favours she offers, but we should not expect too much nor believe all that is said.”
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“There can be no doubt that our descendants will learn to exploit the energy of fusion for peaceful purposes even before its use becomes necessary for the preservation of human civilization.”
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“Science is a way to pursue one's sense of inquiry at the expense of the State.”
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Artsimovich was the head of the fusion power program in the former Soviet Union and became known as "the father of the Tokamak", a special concept for a fusion reactor
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1966· 1 entry
Visited the United States to deliver a lecture on fusion and Tokamak technology at MIT, and was elected a Foreign Honorary Member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences
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1953· 2 entries
Awarded USSR State Prize (1953).
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Became an academician of the Soviet Academy of Sciences and then a member of its Presidium in 1957
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1945· 1 entry
Artsimovich joined the Soviet program of nuclear weapons, working on an electromagnetic method of isotope separation of uranium at Laboratory No
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1937· 1 entry
And in 1939 at the Leningrad Polytechnical Institute, receiving only a written endorsement from the Ioffe Institute
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1928· 1 entry
Studied at Faculty of Physics and Mathematics of the Belarusian State University (1928).
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1923· 1 entry
Soviet authorities moved the Artsimovich family (due to suspicion of Anti-bolshevist activity) to Minsk, where he found employment in the railroad industry and started training towards becoming a railroad engineer
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1909· 1 entry
Born 1909-02-12.
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1863· 1 entry
And married a Russian woman, later settling in Smolensk
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