Human Accomplishment: Ilya Frank

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.

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+

Ilya Frank