Robert Dautray

French physicist, father of the French hydrogen bomb

Robert Dautray was a prominent French physicist who played a crucial role in the development of France's thermonuclear bomb. Born into a Jewish family that fled the pogroms in Belarus, Dautray's early life was marked by the horrors of World War II, including the deportation of his father to Auschwitz. Despite these challenges, he pursued a career in science, eventually becoming a key figure in nuclear physics.