George Kistiakowsky

George Bogdanovich Kistiakowsky was a UkrainianAmerican physical chemistry professor at Harvard who participated in the Manhattan Project and later served as President Dwight D. Eisenhowers Science Advisor.

George Bogdanovich Kistiakowsky was born in Kiev, in the Kiev Governorate of the Russian Empire , on November 18, 1900. Georges grandfather Oleksandr Fedorovych Kistiakovsky was a professor of law and an attorney of the Russian Empire who specialized in criminal law. His father Bogdan Kistiakovsky was Professor of Legal Philosophy at the University of Kiev, and was elected a member of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine in 1919. Kistiakowskys mother was Maria Berendshtam, and he had a brother, Alexander. Georges uncle Ihor Kistiakovsky was the Minister of Internal Affairs of the Ukrainian State.

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