The Nobel Prize in Physics 1958
Awarded on: 1958-10-28
"for the discovery and the interpretation of the Cherenkov effect"
Affiliations:
- P.N. Lebedev Physical Institute – Moscow, USSR (now Russia)
Pavel Alekseyevich Cherenkov
Born: 1904-07-28 in Novaya Chigla, Russia
Gender: male
Field: Soviet physicist (1904–1990)
Biography
Pavel Alekseyevich Cherenkov 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".