Paul Vasilievich Kevlishvili - a participant in the Soviet atomic project, winner of the Stalin and Lenin Prizes.
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| Date of Birth | February 2, 1915 | |||||||||||
| Place of Birth | Tiflis | |||||||||||
| Date of death | 1998 | |||||||||||
| Scientific field | instrumentation for recording physical parameters of a nuclear explosion | |||||||||||
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Biography
Born February 2, 1915 in Tbilisi (Tiflis) in the family of a railway engineer.
In 1931, the Komsomol permit was sent to the construction of the Chita power plant. Then he worked as an electrician at the Tbilisi steam engine repair plant.
In 1933 he entered the Tbilisi Energy Institute, after the first course he transferred to the Moscow Power Engineering Institute, from which he graduated in 1938 with a degree in Electrical Engineering. He worked at the Central Research Institute of Ferrous Metallurgy.
In 1941-1945 served in the Red Army, commander of the artillery battery of the 62nd Guards Artillery Regiment of the 29th Guards. sd , Western and 2nd Baltic fronts, guard captain. Commissioned by disability after a severe injury. In 1942 he joined the VKP (b). He was awarded the Order of the Patriotic War, 1 st degree (1944) and the medal "For Courage" (1943).
In December 1946, he was accepted into the Institute of Chemical Physics of the USSR Academy of Sciences as a senior engineer in the instrument engineering department, who was tasked with creating instruments for recording the physical parameters of a nuclear explosion. Led the group.
Closed by decree of October 29, 1949, he was awarded the Stalin Prize and was awarded the Order of the Red Banner of Labor.
In 1950, with his group, he created instruments for measuring the time interval between pulses during testing of a nuclear weapon at a test site.
Stalin Prize in 1951 - for participation in the development of test methods and testing of RDS products.
From the middle. 1950s Head by the laboratory. He was engaged in solving problems related to the physics and mechanics of a high-altitude nuclear explosion. According to the results of the research a two-volume monograph was prepared. Its authors P.V. Kevlishvili, M.A. Elyashevich, A.S. Dubovik, Yu.P. Raizer, I.V. Nemchinov were awarded the Lenin Prize in 1966.
In 1963—1989 Deputy Director of the Institute of Physics of the Earth on the Special Branch. He began preparing the Special Sector for its transformation in 1991 to the Institute of Dynamics of the Geospheres of the Russian Academy of Sciences.
He was awarded two Orders of Lenin, the Orders of the October Revolution, the Red Banner of Labor, the Badge of Honor, two orders of the Patriotic War of the First Class, and also medals.
He died in 1998.