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 in 1958
Cherenkov radiation is named for his discovery of the phenomenon; pictured here glowing is the core of the Advanced Test Reactor.
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
Pavel Cherenkov
…1990) 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 was born into a Russian family on July 28, 1904, to Alexey Cherenkov and Mariya Cherenkova, in the small village of Novaya Chigla in Voronezh…
Cherenkov radiation in the University of Massachusetts Lowell Radiation Laboratory
Cherenkov radiation in a TRIGA reactor pool.