Venedikt Petrovich Dzhelepov (; April 12, 1913 – March 12, 1999) was a Soviet

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Biography

He educated at Leningrad Industrial Institute. A couple of years upon graduation in 1937 he began in 1939 working with I. V. Kurchatov on the first in Europe cyclotron in the Radium Institute. The joint researches with Kurchatov determined Dzhelepov's entire further career. In August 1943, Dzhelepov joined the group of the first staff members of Laboratory No. 2 which is now known as the Kurchatov Atomic Energy Institute for solving uranium problem. In 1948 Dzhelepov was given by Kurchatov a new task as deputy director of the new Laboratory being developed in

Dubna Dubna ( rus, Дубна́, p=dʊbˈna) is a town in Moscow Oblast, Russia. It has a status of '' naukograd'' (i.e. town of science), being home to the Joint Institute for Nuclear Research, an international nuclear physics research center and o ...

(later became the Institute for Nuclear Problems within the USSR Academy of Sciences (he held this position in 1948-1956). Later he was appointed the Director of Laboratory for Nuclear Problems at

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in Dubna (1956-1988). Since 1989 worked as its Honorary Director.

Awards

* Stalin Prize (twice 1951 and 1953) *

Order 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 ...

(1951) *

Order of the October Revolution The Order of the October Revolution (, ''Orden Oktyabr'skoy Revolyutsii'') was instituted on 31 October 1967, in time for the 50th anniversary of the October Revolution. It was conferred upon individuals or groups for services furthering communis ...

(1983) *

Order of the Red Banner of Labour The Order of the Red Banner of Labour () was an order of the Soviet Union established to honour great deeds and services to the Soviet state and society in the fields of production, science, culture, literature, the arts, education, sports ...

(twice 1962 and 1974) *

Order of Friendship The Order of Friendship (, ') is a state decoration of the Russian Federation established by Boris Yeltsin by presidential decree 442 of 2 March 1994 to reward Russian and foreign nationals whose work, deeds and efforts have been aimed at ...

(1996) * Kurchatov Gold Medal (1986)

Memory

* Laboratory of Nuclear Problems of Joint Institute for Nuclear Research (JINR) created by Venedikt Dzhelepov now bears his name * In Dubna there is a monument established showing the outdoor meeting of Dzhelepov and

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* One of the Dubna streets is named after Dzherelov

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1913 births 1999 deaths 20th-century Russian physicists Scientists from Moscow Communist Party of the Soviet Union members {{Russia-physicist-stub Corresponding Members of the Russian Academy of Sciences Corresponding Members of the USSR Academy of Sciences Peter the Great St. Petersburg Polytechnic University alumni Officers of the Order of Merit of the Republic of Poland Recipients of the Stalin Prize Recipients of the Medal of Zhukov Recipients of the Order of Lenin Recipients of the Order of the Red Banner of Labour Soviet military personnel of the Winter War Soviet physicists