Additional Info

.He enrolled at the physics department of Crimea St. University, earned his doctorate degree in physics there.

.He also studied at the poly technical institute in Petrograd where he earned his degree in Naual Engineering.

.Joseph Stalin went to the Soviet Academy of Sciences to find the best administrator to lead his atom bomb program and the academy chose Igor Kurchatov. ( that's how he became part of the atom bomb project)

.Kurchatov discovered the idea for a uranium chain reactor and the nuclear reactor concept in 1939.