Grigory Klinishov
Grigory Yemelyanovich Klinishov (, 30 October 1930 –  17 June 2023) was a Soviet Russian physicist and recipient of the Lenin Prize. He was one of the creators of the Soviet hydrogen bomb RDS-37.

Scientific career
Klinishov graduated from the Moscow Engineering Physics Institute in 1954 and held the rank of the Candidate of the Physical and Mathematical Sciences. He was sent to the KB-11 (Constructor Bureau-11) of the Ministry of Medium Machine Building (later called All-Russian Scientific Research Institute of Experimental Physics), a facility tasked with developing nuclear and thermonuclear weapons. There he worked as an engineer in a theoretical department under Andrei Sakharov.

Klinishov developed the charge for the Soviet hydrogen bomb RDS-37. The bomb was tested on 22 November 1955 in Semipalatinsk. Klinishov also developed several types of thermonuclear charges for next-generation bombs.

Death
Klinishov committed suicide at the age of 92, his body was found by relatives on 17 June 2023 in his apartment in Moscow. He left a death note where he bid farewell to the relatives.

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1930 births
2023 deaths
2023 suicides
Soviet nuclear physicists
Recipients of the Order of the Red Banner of Labour
Recipients of the Lenin Prize
Suicides in Moscow