Igor Tamm - Nobel Prize in Physics — 1958
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Igor Tamm

Prize
Nobel Prize in Physics — 1958
for the discovery and the interpretation of the Cherenkov effect
Together with: Ilya Frank , Pavel Cherenkov
Citizenship
Soviet Union Soviet Union Russian Empire Russian Empire
Languages
Russian
date of birth
7/8/1895
place of birth
Vladivostok
date of death
4/12/1971
place of death
Moscow
Lived
75 years

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member of
  • Russian Academy of Sciences
    • end time: 10/23/1953
    • start time: 2/1/1933
  • Russian Academy of Sciences
    • start time: 10/23/1953
  • American Academy of Arts and Sciences
  • German Academy of Sciences Leopoldina
  • Polish Academy of Sciences
doctoral student
  • Nikita Moiseyev
  • David Abramovich Kirzhnits
  • Semen Altshuler
  • Andrei Sakharov
  • Vitaly Ginzburg
  • Alexander Davydov
  • Gersh Budker
educated at
  • University of Edinburgh
  • MSU Faculty of Physics
  • Lomonosov Moscow State University
employer
  • Lomonosov Moscow State University
  • Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology
  • Lebedev Physical Institute
notable work
  • Cherenkov radiation
  • Frank–Tamm formula
occupation
  • inventor
  • physicist
  • university teacher
  • theoretical physicist
field of work
  • theoretical physics
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