George Kistiakowski was born on 18 November 1900 in Kiev, Russian Empire [now Ukraine]. He was married to Elaine Mahoney, Irma E. Shuler and Hildegard Moebius. He died on 7 December 1982 in Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA.
[1944-1945] One of the chief scientists of the Manhattan Project, the
top-secret U.S. effort to build the first atomic bomb. As director of
the Implosion Program, he was in charge of developing the "explosive
lenses" needed to compress a plutonium sphere uniformly, thus causing a
chain reaction.