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| name = George Koval | | name = George Koval | ||
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| fields = Science; scholarship | | fields = Science; scholarship | ||
| known_for = George Abramovich Koval (Russian: Жорж (Георгий) Абрамович Коваль, IPA: ˈʐorʐ (ɡʲɪˈorɡʲɪj) ɐˈbraməvʲɪtɕ kɐˈvalʲ , Zhorzh Abramovich Koval; December 25, 1913 – January 31, 2006) was an American engineer who. | | known_for = George Abramovich Koval (Russian: Жорж (Георгий) Абрамович Коваль, IPA: ˈʐorʐ (ɡʲɪˈorɡʲɪj) ɐˈbraməvʲɪtɕ kɐˈvalʲ , Zhorzh Abramovich Koval; December 25, 1913 – January 31, 2006) was an American engineer who. | ||
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| Known for | George Abramovich Koval (Russian: Жорж (Георгий) Абрамович Коваль, IPA: ˈʐorʐ (ɡʲɪˈorɡʲɪj) ɐˈbraməvʲɪtɕ kɐˈvalʲ , Zhorzh Abramovich Koval; December 25, 1913 – January 31, 2006) was an American engineer who. |
George Koval is a biographical subject in the ScholarlyWiki science collection. George Abramovich Koval (Russian: Жорж (Георгий) Абрамович Коваль, IPA: ˈʐorʐ (ɡʲɪˈorɡʲɪj) ɐˈbraməvʲɪtɕ kɐˈvalʲ , Zhorzh Abramovich Koval; December 25, 1913 – January 31, 2006) was an American engineer who acted as a Soviet intelligence officer for the Soviet atomic bomb project. Koval's infiltration of the Manhattan Project as a GRU (Soviet military intelligence) agent reduced the time it took for the Soviet Union to develop nuclear weapons.[1]
Work and context
Koval was born in Sioux City, Iowa to Jewish emigrants from the part of the Russian Empire that is now Belarus. As an adult, he traveled with his parents to the Soviet Union to settle in the Jewish Autonomous Region near the Chinese border.
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References
- ↑ "George Koval". Wikipedia. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Koval.
External links
Source attribution: Biography:George Koval