Anatoly Petrovich Alexandrov
1903–1994 (age 91)
Biography
Anatoly Petrovich Alexandrov (Russian: Анато́лий Петро́вич Алекса́ндров, 13 February 1903 – 3 February 1994) was a Russian physicist who played a crucial and centralizing role in the former Soviet program of nuclear weapons.
During his lifetime, Alexandrov was the recipient of many honors, civil citations, and state awards for this work and was also the director of the Kurchatov Institute and the President of the Soviet Academy of Sciences from 1975 until 1986.