Cherenkov, Pavel Alekseyevich

Cherenkov, Pavel Alekseyevich

(pä`vĭl əlyĭksyā`yəvĭch chərĕng`kəf), 1904–90, Soviet physicist. He shared with the Soviet physicists I. M. FrankFrank, Ilya Mikhailovich,
1908–90, Soviet physicist, Ph.D. Moscow State Univ., 1935. He was a professor at Moscow State Univ. from 1944 until his death in 1990. Mikhailovich and Igor Y. Tamm won the 1958 Nobel Prize in Physics with Pavel A.
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 and I. Y. TammTamm, Igor Yevgenyevich,
1895–1971, Soviet physicist, Ph.D. Moscow State Univ., 1933. He was a researcher at the P. N. Lebedev Physical Institute in Moscow from 1934 until his death in 1971. Tamm and Ilya M.
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 the 1958 Nobel Prize in Physics for his discovery (1934) of Cherenkov radiationCherenkov radiation
or Cerenkov radiation
[for P. A. Cherenkov], light emitted by a transparent medium when charged particles pass through it at a speed greater than the speed of light in the medium.
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. His research opened the way to new studies of high-energy subatomic particles and of cosmic rays.