Il´ja Mikhailovich Frank

Born: 1908-10-23 in Leningrad (now St. Petersburg), Russia

Gender: male

Field: Soviet physicist (1908–1990)

Biography

Ilya Mikhailovich Frank was a Soviet physicist who received the 1958 Nobel Prize in Physics, jointly with Pavel Alekseyevich Cherenkov and Igor Y. Tamm, also of the Soviet Union. He received the award for his work in explaining the phenomenon of Cherenkov radiation. He received the Stalin prize in 1946 and 1953 and the USSR state prize in 1971.

Nobel Prize Details

The Nobel Prize in Physics 1958

Awarded on: 1958-10-28

"for the discovery and the interpretation of the Cherenkov effect"

Affiliations:

Lomonosov Moscow State University – Moscow, USSR (now Russia)
P.N. Lebedev Physical Institute – Moscow, USSR (now Russia)

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