Georgy Dmitriyevich Latyshev (4.02.1907-3.04.1973) was a Soviet physicist and an academician of the Academy of Sciences of the Kazakh SSR (1958). He was born in Bezhitsa (now a district of Bryansk). He graduated from the Leningrad Polytechnic Institute (1929). In 1930—41 he worked at the Kharkov Physico-Technical Institute, in 1941 —54 at the Leningrad Physico-Technical Institute and in 1954 —58 at the Leningrad Institute of Railway Transport Engineers. In 1958 he organised the Institute of Nuclear Physics of the Academy of Sciences of the Kazakh SSR, of which he was director until 1965. In 1965 — 70 he worked at the Institute of Physics of the Academy of Sciences of the Ukrainian SSR and from 1970 at the Institute for Nuclear Research of the Academy of Sciences of the Ukrainian SSR.
His research concerned nuclear physics (the interaction of gamma radiation with matter, nuclear resonance, gamma-ray flaw detection and high-resolution nuclear spectroscopy). In 1932, together with K. D. Sinelnikov, A. I. Leipunsky and A. K. Walter, he was the first in the USSR to split the atomic nucleus with artificially accelerated particles.
USSR State Prize (1949). A corresponding member of the Academy of Sciences of the Ukrainian SSR (1948).