Died 1971-04-12.
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Igor Tamm
Igor Yevgenyevich Tamm was a Soviet physicist who received the 1958 Nobel Prize in Physics, jointly with Pavel Cherenkov and Ilya 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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science · Soviet physicist (1895–1971) · theoretical physicist · inventor · university teacher · physicist · also Igor Tamm, Igor Yevgenyevich Tamm, Tamm
Born 8 July 1895 · Died 12 April 1971 · Q155759
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1971· 3 entries
Tamm was the head of the theoretical department at Lebedev Physical Institute in Moscow
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“Creativity makes life valuable. Man is the sole creator; he stands out from the swarming masses of petty little folks. It doesn't matter what kind of creativity it is - whether scientific or socio-political - it's of equal value.”
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1968· 1 entry
When the plasma parameters unique for that time were obtained, showed temperatures in their machine to be over an order of magnitude higher than what was expected by the rest of the community
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1967· 1 entry
Won Lomonosov Gold Medal (1967).
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1964· 1 entry
Was elected a Member of the German Academy of Sciences Leopoldina
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1958· 2 entries
Awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics — for the discovery and the interpretation of the Cherenkov effect.
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Awarded Nobel Prize in Physics (1958).
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1954· 1 entry
Awarded Hero of Socialist Labour (1954).
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1951· 2 entries
Together with Andrei Sakharov, proposed the Tokamak system
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Together with Andrei Sakharov, Tamm proposed a tokamak system for the realization of controlled thermonuclear fusion on the basis of toroidal magnetic thermonuclear reactor and soon after the first such devices were buil
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1950· 1 entry
It is now called the Tamm-Dancoff approximation
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1946· 1 entry
Awarded State Stalin Prize, 1st degree (1946).
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1945· 1 entry
Developed an approximation method for many-body physics
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1934· 1 entry
Tamm and Semen Altshuller suggested that the neutron has a non-zero magnetic moment, the idea was met with scepticism at that time, as the neutron was supposed to be an elementary particle with zero charge, and thus coul
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1932· 1 entry
Tamm published a paper with his proposal of the concept of surface states
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1928· 1 entry
Spent a few months with Paul Ehrenfest at the University of Leiden and made a life-long friendship with Paul Dirac
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1917· 1 entry
Joined the Revolutionary movement and became an active anti-war campaigner, serving on revolutionary committees after the March Revolution
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1914· 1 entry
Joined the army as a volunteer field medic
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1895· 2 entries
Born 1895-07-08.
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In Vladivostok into the family of Eugene Tamm, a civil engineer, and his wife Olga Davydova
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