Isaak Yakovlevich Pomeranchuk was a Soviet physicist of Polish origin in the former Soviet nuclear weapons program.
11 Facts About Isaak Pomeranchuk
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Isaak Pomeranchuk's mother was a medical doctor and his father a chemical engineer.
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Isaak Pomeranchuk graduated from school in 1927 and from a factory and workshop school in 1929.
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Isaak Pomeranchuk had begun working at the Kharkiv Institute of Physics and Technology under Lev Landau the previous year, and remained a devoted collaborator with Landau.
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Isaak Pomeranchuk returned to Leningrad in 1938, lecturing, completing his Ph.
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Isaak Pomeranchuk joined the Lebedev Institute of the Academy of Sciences of the Soviet Union in Moscow as a senior scientist in 1940.
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Alikhanov founded Laboratory No 3 and Isaak Pomeranchuk worked there from 1946, founding and leading the Theoretical department, as well as being Professor of Theoretical Physics at the Moscow Mechanical Institute where students admired his infectious enthusiasm for his subject.
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In 1950, Isaak Pomeranchuk received an order from Joseph Stalin to go to Arzamas-16, located in the closed city of Sarov, Nizhny Novgorod region, to work on Soviet nuclear weaponry.
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Isaak Pomeranchuk continued enthusiastically with work on quantum field theory and S-matrix theory, particle collisions and Regge theory, the latter in vigorous collaboration with Vladimir Gribov.
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Isaak Pomeranchuk was elected a corresponding member of the Academy of Sciences of the Soviet Union in 1953 and full member in 1964.
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Isaak Pomeranchuk continued to practice physics during this time but died the following year.