Anatoly Petrovich Alexandrov

Anatoly Petrovich Alexandrov 13 February 1903, Tarascha – 3 February 1994, Moscow was a Soviet and Russian physicist, director of the Kurchatov Institute, academician (from 1953) and president of the Academy of Sciences of the USSR (1975–1986). By the end of his life he had become the third most decorated man in the Soviet Union

Anatoly Alexandrov was born on 13 February 1903 into the family of a prominent judge in the town of Tarascha, Kiev Governorate, Russian Empire (now located in modern-day Ukraine).
After his graduation in 1930, he was invited by Abram Ioffe to join him inLeningrad.