Cherenkov radiation
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Cherenkov radiation is an electromagnetic radiation emitted when a charged particle passes through a dielectric medium at a speed greater than the phase velocity of light in that medium. A classic exa
Cherenkov radiation glowing in the core of the Advanced Test Reactor at Idaho National Laboratory
Cherenkov radiation in the University of Massachusetts Lowell Radiation Laboratory
Cherenkov radiation in a TRIGA reactor pool.
Pavel Cherenkov
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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".
Cherenkov radiation
…is similar to the cause of a sonic boom, the sharp sound heard when faster-than-sound movement occurs. The phenomenon is named after Soviet physicist Pavel Cherenkov. The radiation is named after the Soviet scientist Pavel Cherenkov, the 1958 Nobel Prize winner, who was the first to detect it experimentally under…
Cherenkov in 1958