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Q155759

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Also known as Igor Yevgenyevich Tamm

Soviet physicist (1895–1971)

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Q155759 refers to a Soviet physicist who lived from 1895 to 1971 and made contributions to the field of physics during the Soviet era. While the specific details of this person's work and achievements aren't provided here, Soviet physicists from this period were important figures in developing nuclear science and other major physics breakthroughs of the 20th century.

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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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Igor Yevgenyevich Tamm (Russian: И́горь Евге́ньевич Тамм; 8 July 1895 – 12 April 1971) was a Soviet physicist who received the 1958 Nobel Prize in Physics, jointly with Pavel Alekseyevich Cherenkov and Ilya Mikhailovich Frank, for their 1934 discovery and demonstration of Cherenkov radiation. He also predicted the quasi-particle of sound: the phonon; and in 1951, together with Andrei Sakharov, proposed the Tokamak system.

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