Lixin Ji
Lixin Ji | |
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| Chief Nuclear Technologist | |
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| Born | 11 October 1917 |
| Nationality | Corummese |
| Awards | Order of Excellence First Grade |
Lixin Ji was a Corummese nuclear physicist known as the 'father of the Corummese bomb' for his work in the Corummese nuclear weapons program. In 1950 he founded the National Conlegium of Physics with specialized departments for uranium enrichment, isotope separation and fluid mechanics. With the push to reach military parity with western imperial states a high priority of the National Reconstruction Front-led government, Lixing Ji became a key member of the clandestine program to build a nuclear weapon. Later in life Lixin Ji was accussed by a League of Nations panel of being involved in a clandestine nuclear proliferation ring trafficking in components and expertise to non-nuclear states.