Order of the October Revolution Order of the Badge of Honour Medal "For Labour Valour" Stalin Prize Lenin Prize Kharkiv Institute of Physics and Technology Igor Nikolaevich Golovin (Russian: Игорь Николаевич Головин; 12 March 1913 – 15 April 1997) was a Russian physicist whose career was spent on the former Soviet program of nuclear weapons and nuclear fusion.

In July 1941, when Nazi Germany invaded Soviet Union, Igor went to fight at the front line.

After fighting for some time, he was dismissed by the medical commission due to bad health and returned to Moscow Aviation Institute.

2 of the USSR Academy of Sciences (today - the Kurchatov Institute) and together with L. A. Artsimovich, worked on the development of the electromagnetic method of isotope separation.

[5] In 1957[6]) he was appointed as the chief of the OGRA (Russian Огра - trap, or containment) department at the institute, a position he held until 1974.