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Abstract: Neither Ronald Richter or Oleg A. Lavrentev became famous as the inventor of a ground-breaking device for research into controlled thermonuclear fusion. However, their single-mindedness in their work unleashed a storm in controlled fusion research. Today this storm culminates in France with the construction of the ITER international tokamak. In less than four years, the European Union, Russia, United States, China, Japan, South Korea and India will be represented at the launch of the first plasma of the first profitable fusion reactor. We should not forget the two pioneers who stood at the very beginning: R. Richter in 1936 in Sokolovo in Czechoslovakia and O. A. Lavrentev in 1949 in Poronajsk in the Soviet Union. In this article, which compares their way of working and personalities, you will find out how they lived, how they worked, how similar they were and how they differed. |
