Background
Flyorov was born in Rostov-on-Don and attended the Leningrad Polytechnic Institute (now known as the Street St. Petersburg State Polytechnic University) and majored in thermal physics and nuclear physics.
inventor physicist nuclear scientist
Flyorov was born in Rostov-on-Don and attended the Leningrad Polytechnic Institute (now known as the Street St. Petersburg State Polytechnic University) and majored in thermal physics and nuclear physics.
In 2012, he was honored as the namesake for flerovium. He is known for writing to Stalin in April 1942, while serving as an air force lieutenant, and pointing out the conspicuous silence within the field of nuclear fission in the United States, Great Britain, and Germany. Flyorov"s urgings to "build the uranium bomb without delay" eventually led to the development of the Soviet atomic bomb project
He discovered spontaneous fission in 1940 with Konstantin Petrzhak.
He also claimed as his discovery two transition metal elements: seaborgium and bohrium. He founded the Flyorov Laboratory of Nuclear Reactions (FLNR), one of the main labs of the Joint Institute for Nuclear Research in Dubna in 1957, and was director there until 1989.
Also during this period, he chaired the Scientific Council of the Union of the Soviet Socialist Republics Academy of Sciences.
Hero of Socialist Labour (1949) Two Orders of Lenin (1949, 1983) Order of the October Revolution (1973) Order of the Red Banner of Labour, three times (1959, 1963, 1975) Order of the Patriotic War, 1st class (1985) Lenin Prize (1967) Stalin Prize, twice (1946, 1949) Union of the Soviet Socialist Republics State Prize (1975) Honorary Citizen of Dubna The element Flerovium (atomic number 114) named after him.
German Academy of Sciences Leopoldina. Academy of Sciences of the Union of the Soviet Socialist Republics.
