Isaak Kikoin
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Isaak Konstantinovich Kikoin (Russian: Исаак Константинович Кикоин) (March 28, 1908 - December 28, 1984) was a Soviet physicist, academician (1953), and Hero of Socialist Labor (1951).
Kikoin was with Igor Kurchatov as one of the founders of the Kurchatov Atomic Energy Institute, which developed the first Soviet nuclear reactor in 1946. This was the lead-in to the Soviet atomic bomb project with the first atomic bomb test taking place in 1949.
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