Died 1990-01-06.
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Pavel Cherenkov
Pavel Alekseyevich Cherenkov was a Soviet physicist who shared the 1958 Nobel Prize in Physics with Ilya Frank and Igor Tamm "for the discovery and interpretation of the Cherenkov effect".
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science · Soviet physicist (1904–1990) · nuclear physicist · inventor · physicist · also Pavel Cherenkov, Pavel Alekseyevich Cherenkov, Cherenkov
Born 28 July 1904 · Died 6 January 1990 · Q76970
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1990· 1 entry
1970· 1 entry
Became an academician of the USSR Academy of Sciences
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1959· 1 entry
Headed the institute's photo-meson processes laboratory
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1958· 3 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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Was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics for the discovery of the Cherenkov effect
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1953· 1 entry
Was confirmed as Professor of Experimental Physics
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1946· 2 entries
Awarded State Stalin Prize, 1st degree (1946).
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Sharing the honor with Vavilov, Frank and Tamm, and another in 1952
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1940· 1 entry
Was awarded the degree of Doctor of Physico-Mathematical Sciences
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1930· 1 entry
Took a post as a senior researcher in the Lebedev Physical Institute
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1928· 1 entry
Graduated from the Department of Physics and Mathematics of Voronezh State University
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1904· 2 entries
Born 1904-07-28.
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To Alexey Cherenkov and Mariya Cherenkova, in the small village of Novaya Chigla in Voronezh Governorate of the Russian Empire
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