The Nobel Prize in Physics 1958
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Pavel Alekseyevich Cherenkov
Prize share: 1/3
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Il´ja Mikhailovich Frank
Prize share: 1/3
Photo from the Nobel Foundation archive.
Igor Yevgenyevich Tamm
Prize share: 1/3
The Nobel Prize in Physics 1958 was awarded jointly to Pavel Alekseyevich Cherenkov, Il´ja Mikhailovich Frank and Igor Yevgenyevich Tamm "for the discovery and the interpretation of the Cherenkov effect"
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