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George Kistiakowsky was a Ukrainian-American physical chemist who participated in the Manhattan Project and became President Eisenhower's Science Advisor. He also chaired the COSEPUP committee and protested against the Vietnam War.
Learn about the life and achievements of George Kistiakowsky, a Ukrainian-American chemist who led the explosives division of the Manhattan Project. Find out how he contributed to the development of the atomic bomb, the White House science policy, and the anti-war movement.
Kistiakowsky was a physical chemist who helped create the implosion for the atomic bomb during World War II. He also advocated for banning nuclear weapons and received the National Medal of Science in 1967.
Learn about the life and achievements of George Kistiakowsky, a Ukrainian-born chemist who worked on the Manhattan Project and advised several U.S. presidents on arms control and foreign policy. Find out how he fought in the White Russian army, escaped from the Bolsheviks, and became a professor at Harvard.
Learn about the life and achievements of George Kistiakowsky, a Ukrainian-born chemist who led the implosion department of the Manhattan Project. He also advised several U.S. presidents on arms control and foreign policy, and protested against the Vietnam War.
Learn about the life and achievements of George B. Kistiakowsky, a Russian-born chemist who made significant contributions to chemical kinetics, thermodynamics, and nuclear weapons control. Read his memorial minute adopted by the Harvard faculty in 1984.
Learn about the life and achievements of George Kistiakowsky, who fled the Russian Revolution and became the head of the Explosives Division at Los Alamos. He developed the complex explosive lenses for the implosion bomb and witnessed the Trinity Test.
