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Ilya Frank

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Also known as Ilya Mikhailovich Frank

Soviet physicist

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Nobel Prize

  • The Nobel Prize in Physics1958

    “for the discovery and the interpretation of the Cherenkov effect”

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Instance of
human
Family name
Frank
Gender
male
Citizenship
Russian Empire
Place of birth
Saint Petersburg
Place of death
Moscow
Occupation
university teacher
Educated at
Russian Academy of Sciences
Employer
Institute for Nuclear Research
Languages spoken
Russian
Religion
Judaism
Academic degree
Bachelor of Science
Doctoral advisor
Sergey Vavilov
Student of
Sergey Vavilov
Field of work
physicist
Image
Ilya Frank.jpg
Work location
Soviet Union
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Ilya Frank
date of birth
1908-10-23
date of death
1990-06-22
place of burial
Vvedenskoye Cemetery
member of
Russian Academy of Sciences
Erdős number
7
nominated for
Nobel Prize in Physics
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interested in
physics
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Encyclopedic overview

Ilya Mikhailovich Frank (Russian: Илья Михайлович Франк; 23 October 1908 – 22 June 1990) 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.

Life and career

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