Ilya Frank
Ilya Frank
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a Soviet winner of the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1958 jointly with Pavel Alekseyevich Cherenkov and Igor Y. Tamm, also of the Soviet Union.
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Born
Ilya Mikhailovich Frank 23 October 1908 Saint Petersburg, Russian Empire
Died
22 June 1990 (aged 81) Moscow, Soviet Union
Known for
Čerenkov radiation Transition radiation Frank-Tamm formula
Fields
Nuclear physics
Alma mater
Moscow State University
Awards
Stalin Prize 1946 Nobel Prize in Physics (1958)
Institutions
Moscow State University, Academy of Sciences of the U.S.S.R.
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Russia
Doctoral advisor
Sergey Ivanovich Vavilov
era
1800+