Nikolai Tikhomirov (chemical engineer)
Nikolai Tikhomirov | |
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| Николай Тихомиров | |
Bust of Nikolai Ivanovich Tikhomirov. Saint Petersburg. Museum of rocket science. | |
| Born | November 1859 Moscow |
| Died | 28 April 1930 (aged 70) Leningrad |
| Known for | founder of the Gas Dynamics Laboratory |
| Awards | Hero of Socialist Labor |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | specialist in rocket technology |
| Part of a series of articles on the |
| Soviet space program |
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Nikolai Ivanovich Tikhomirov (Russian: Николай Иванович Тихомиров; born Nikolai Viktorovich Slyotov; November 1859 – 28 April 1930) was a Russian and Soviet chemical engineer, inventor, founder of the Gas Dynamics Laboratory, specialist in rocket technology and one of the inventors of the Katyusha, which he was awarded the Hero of Socialist Labor (1991, posthumously). A crater on the far side of the Moon is named after him.