Kirill Ivanovich Shchelkin
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1911 – 1968
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Who was Kirill Ivanovich Shchelkin?
Kirill Ivanovich Shchelkin was a Russian scientist involved in the development of Soviet nuclear weapons, particularly the physics of combustion and explosion. He graduated in 1932 from the Crimean Institute in Simferopol and became the department head at Arzamas-16 responsible for the development of shaped explosive charges used in nuclear implosion type weapons. He served as first scientific director at Chelyabinsk-70 from 1955–1960.
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