Kyrylo Dmytrovych Synelnykov (; 29 May 1901 – 16 October 1966) was a Soviet and Ukrainian physicist who participated in the

Soviet atomic bomb project The Soviet atomic bomb project was authorized by Joseph Stalin in the Soviet Union to develop nuclear weapons during and after World War II. Russian physicist Georgy Flyorov suspected that the Allied powers were secretly developing a " superwea ...

Biography

Synelnykov was born in Pavlohrad. In January 1921, he was accepted into the M. V. Frunze Crimean University, and graduated two years later.

Awards and honors

* Three

Orders of Lenin The Order of Lenin (, ) was an award named after Vladimir Lenin, the leader of the October Revolution. It was established by the Central Executive Committee on 6 April 1930. The order was the highest civilian decoration bestowed by the Soviet ...

* Three Orders of the Red Banner of Labour * Honored Science and Technology Figure of the Ukrainian SSR The Synelnykov Prize for outstanding works in the field of physics is named after him.

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Kyrylo Synelnykov
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