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The Nobel Prize in Physics 1958

"for the discovery and the interpretation of the Cherenkov effect"
Pavel Alekseyevich Cherenkov IlŽja Mikhailovich Frank Igor Yevgenyevich Tamm
Pavel Alekseyevich Cherenkov IlŽja Mikhailovich Frank Igor Yevgenyevich Tamm
third 1/3 of the prize third 1/3 of the prize third 1/3 of the prize
USSR USSR USSR
P.N. Lebedev Physical Institute
Moscow, USSR		 University of Moscow; P.N. Lebedev Physical Institute
Moscow, USSR		 University of Moscow; P.N. Lebedev Physical Institute
Moscow, USSR
b. 1904
d. 1990		 b. 1908
d. 1990		 b. 1895
d. 1971
 
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