Ilya Frank - Nobel Prize in Physics — 1958
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Ilya Frank

Prize
Nobel Prize in Physics — 1958
for the discovery and the interpretation of the Cherenkov effect
Together with: Igor Tamm , Pavel Cherenkov
Citizenship
Russian Empire Russian Empire Soviet Union Soviet Union
Languages
Russian
date of birth
10/23/1908
place of birth
Saint Petersburg
date of death
6/22/1990
place of death
Moscow
Lived
81 years

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educated at
  • Lomonosov Moscow State University
    • academic major: mathematics
    • academic major: theoretical physics
    • end time: 1930
  • Russian Academy of Sciences
member of
  • Russian Academy of Sciences
    • end time: 11/26/1968
    • start time: 12/4/1946
  • Russian Academy of Sciences
    • start time: 11/26/1968
  • German Academy of Sciences at Berlin
  • Academy of Sciences of the USSR
employer
  • Lebedev Physical Institute
    • end time: 1970
    • start time: 1934
  • Institute for Nuclear Research
  • Joint Institute for Nuclear Research
field of work
  • physicist
  • nuclear physics
  • physics
doctoral student
  • Iosif Solomonovich Shapiro
  • Fyodor Shapiro
occupation
  • physicist
  • university teacher
work location
  • Soviet Union
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