Igor Tamm

Physicist, Academic

1895 – 1971

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Who was Igor Tamm?

Igor Yevgenyevich Tamm was a Soviet physicist who received the 1958 Nobel Prize in Physics, jointly with Pavel Alekseyevich Cherenkov and Ilya Frank, for their 1934 discovery of Cherenkov radiation.

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Born
Jul 8, 1895
Vladivostok
Also known as
  • I. E. Tamm
Religion
  • Atheism
Nationality
  • Russia
  • Soviet Union
Profession
Education
  • Moscow State University
  • University of Edinburgh
Employment
  • Moscow State University
Lived in
  • Vladivostok
Died
Apr 12, 1971
Moscow

Submitted
on July 23, 2013

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