Awards & Winners

Ilya Frank

Date of Birth 23-October-1908
Place of Birth Saint Petersburg
(Russia, Northwestern Federal District)
Nationality Soviet Union
Profession Physicist
Ilya Mikhailovich Frank was a Soviet winner of the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1958 jointly with Pavel Alekseyevich Cherenkov and Igor Y. Tamm, also of the Soviet Union. He received the award for his work in explaining the phenomenon of Cherenkov radiation. He received the Stalin prize in 1946 and 1953 and the USSR state prize in 1971.

Awards by Ilya Frank

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1958


Nobel Prize in Physics
(for the discovery and the interpretation of the Cherenkov effect)