Pavel Cherenkov - Nobel Prize in Physics — 1958
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Pavel Cherenkov

Prize
Nobel Prize in Physics — 1958
for the discovery and the interpretation of the Cherenkov effect
Together with: Igor Tamm , Ilya Frank
Citizenship
Russian Empire Russian Empire Soviet Union Soviet Union
Languages
Russian
date of birth
7/28/1904
place of birth
Novaya Chigla
date of death
1/6/1990
place of death
Moscow
Lived
85 years
member of
  • Russian Academy of Sciences
    • start time: 11/24/1970
  • Russian Academy of Sciences
    • end time: 11/24/1970
    • start time: 6/26/1964
  • National Academy of Sciences
    • start time: 1985
  • Academy of Sciences of the USSR
employer
  • Moscow Power Engineering Institute
  • Lebedev Physical Institute
  • National Research Nuclear University
field of work
  • nuclear physics
  • high energy physics
  • optics
educated at
  • Voronezh State University
occupation
  • physicist
  • nuclear physicist
  • inventor
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