Vitaly Khlopin

Vitaly Grigorievich Khlopin
Born26 January [O.S. 14 January] 1890
DiedJuly 10, 1950(1950-07-10) (aged 60)
NationalityRussian
Alma materSaint Petersburg Imperial University, University of Göttingen
Awards, , Medal "For Valiant Labour in the Great Patriotic War 1941–1945",
Scientific career
FieldsChemistry, Radiochemistry
InstitutionsRadium Institute
Doctoral studentsZinaida Yershova, Joseph Starik

Vitaly Grigorievich Khlopin (Russian:Вита́лий Григо́рьевич Хло́пин) (January 1890 - 10 July 1950) was a Russian and Soviet scientist- radiochemist, professor, academician of the USSR Academy of Sciences (1939), Hero of Socialist Labour (1949), and director of the Radium Institute of the USSR Academy of Sciences (1939-1950). He was one of the founders of Soviet radiochemistry and radium industry, received the first domestic radium preparations (1921), one of the founders of the Radium Institute and leading participants in the atomic project and founder of the school of Soviet radiochemists.