Ilya Frank
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For other uses, see Frank (disambiguation).
In this name that follows Eastern Slavic naming customs, the patronymic is Mikhailovich and the family name is Frank.
Ilya Mikhailovich Frank (Russian: Илья Михайлович Франк; 23 October 1908 – 22 June 1990) was a Soviet physicist who received the 1958 Nobel Prize for Physics, jointly with Pavel Alekseyevich Cherenkov and Igor Y. Tamm, also of the Soviet Union. He received the award for his work in explaining the phenomenon of Cherenkov radiation. He received the Stalin prize in 1946 and 1953 and the USSR state prize in 1971.
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Илья Франк | |
Born | Ilya Mikhailovich Frank (1908-10-23)23 October 1908 Saint Petersburg, Russian Empire |
Died | 22 June 1990(1990-06-22) (aged 81) Moscow, Russian SFSR, Soviet Union |
Alma mater | Moscow State University |
Known for | Cherenkov radiation Transition radiation Frank-Tamm formula |
Awards | Stalin Prize (1946) Nobel Prize in Physics (1958) |
Scientific career | |
Fields | Nuclear physics |
Institutions | Moscow State University, Academy of Sciences of the USSR |
Doctoral advisor | Sergey Ivanovich Vavilov |
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