Konstantin Petrzhak, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Konstantin Petrzhak

Soviet physicist

Date of Birth: 04-Sep-1907

Place of Birth: Łuków, Lublin Voivodeship, Poland

Date of Death: 10-Oct-1998

Profession: physicist, nuclear physicist

Zodiac Sign: Virgo

Konstantin Antonovich Petrzhak (Russian: ?????????´? ????´????? ???????, IPA: [k?nst?n?'t?in ?n'ton?v??t? p??d?ak]; 4 September 1907– 10 October 1998), alternatively Pietrzak; was a Russian nuclear physicist of Polish ethnicity, and a professor of physics at the Saint Petersburg State University. Receiving credit with the Georgy Flyorov, a physicist, to discover the spontaneous fission of uranium in 1940, he also greatly aided in Russia's atomic bomb project.