Samvel Kocharyants
Appearance
Samvel Kocharyants | |
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Սամվել Քոչարյանց | |
Born | |
Died | August 4, 1993 | (aged 84)
Nationality | Soviet Union |
Known for | Chief developer of the first Soviet nuclear warheads for ballistic missiles |
Awards | Hero of Socialist Labor (1962, 1984) |
Scientific career | |
Institutions | All-Russian Scientific Research Institute of Experimental Physics (VNIIEF) |
Samvel Grigorievich Kocharyants (Russian: Самвел Григорьевич Кочарянц; Armenian: Սամվել Գրիգորի Քոչարյանց; born 7 January 1909 in Gavar, Russian Empire, died 4 August 1993 in Sarov, Russia) was a Soviet Armenian designer and developer of the first Soviet nuclear warheads for ballistic missiles.[1][2] He was awarded Hero of Socialist Labor twice.
Awards
[edit]- Hero of Socialist Labor (2).
- Order of Lenin (6).
- Order of the October Revolution.
- Medal "For Labour Valour".
- Jubilee Medal "In Commemoration of the 100th Anniversary of the Birth of Vladimir Ilyich Lenin".
- Honored Worker of Science and Technology of the RSFSR.
- Lenin Prize.
- Stalin Prize (3).
- USSR State Prize.