Members of this profession were kept at  sharashkas , a special agency within the Gulag, by Lavrentiy Beria.
Members of this profession were kept at  sharashkas , a special agency within the Gulag, by Lavrentiy Beria. One member of this profession was married to Helsinki Accords activist Yelena Bonner, who delivered his 1975 Nobel Lecture "Peace, Progress, and Human Rights." Another person in this general profession headed the agency VASKhNIL  (vahkh-NEEL) , where he championed "Michurinism" and "vernalization." Igor (*)  Kurchatov headed a group of people in this profession whose work culminated with the "First Lightning" event in Semipalatinsk, Kazakhstan. People in this profession included the fraud Trofim Lysenko and the activist Andrei Sakharov. For 10 points, name this general profession whose practitioners helped the Soviet Union create its atomic bomb.
Members of this profession were kept at  sharashkas , a special agency within the Gulag, by Lavrentiy Beria.
scientist s [or specific types, like  physicist s or  biologist s or  engineer s]