Igor Golovin
Igor Nikolaevich Golovin | |
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Игорь Николаевич Головин | |
| Born | 12 March 1913 |
| Died | 15 April 1997 (aged 84) Moscow |
| Resting place | Vvedenskoye Cemetery |
| Nationality | Russia |
| Alma mater | Moscow State University |
| Known for | Tokamak |
| Awards | Order of Lenin Order of the October Revolution |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Physics |
| Institutions | Moscow Aviation Institute Kharkiv Institute of Physics and Technology |
| Thesis | Polarization of vacuum in Dirac's theory (1939) |
| Doctoral advisor | Igor Tamm |
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Igor Nikolaevich Golovin (Russian: Игорь Николаевич Головин; 12 March 1913 – 15 April 1997) was a Russian physicist whose career was spent on the former Soviet program of nuclear weapons and nuclear fusion. He is known for coining the term Tokamak.