Valery Legasov

Valery Legasov

Valery Alexeyevich Legasov (Russian: Валерий Алексеевич Легасов; born September 1, 1936 in Tula, Russia, Soviet Union; died April 27, 1988 in Moscow, Soviet Union) was a prominent Soviet inorganic chemist and a member of the Academy of Sciences of the USSR. He is most famous for his work as the chief of the committee investigating the Chernobyl disaster.

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