Pavel Cherenkov
July 28, 1904 –January 6, 1990
Nuclear physicist, Inventor, Physicist
Lived 85 years
- Born in
- Novaya Chigla
- Passed away in
- Moscow
Pavel Alekseyevich Cherenkov (Russian: Па́вел Алексе́евич Черенко́в [ˈpavʲɪl ɐlʲɪkˈsʲe(j)ɪvʲɪtɕ tɕɪrʲɪnˈkof]; 28 July 1904 – 6 January 1990) was a Soviet physicist who shared the 1958 Nobel Prize in Physics with Ilya Frank and Igor Tamm "for the discovery and interpretation of the Cherenkov effect".
Awards: State Stalin Prize, 1st degree, USSR State Prize, Order of Lenin, Hero of Socialist Labour, Nobel Prize in Physics, Order of the Red Banner of Labour, Order of the Badge of Honour, Medal "For Valiant Labour in the Great Patriotic War 1941–1945", Jubilee Medal "In Commemoration of the 100th Anniversary of the Birth of Vladimir Ilyich Lenin", Jubilee Medal "Thirty Years of Victory in the Great Patriotic War 1941–1945" Education: Voronezh State University
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