Igor Tamm
Russian physicist
Died when: 75 years 278 days (909 months)Star Sign: Cancer
Igor Yevgenyevich Tamm (Russian: ?´???? ????´?????? ????, IPA: ['ig?r? j?v'g?en?j?vit? 'tam]; 8 July 1895 – 12 April 1971) was a Soviet physicist who received the 1958 Nobel Prize in Physics, jointly with Pavel Alekseyevich Cherenkov and Ilya Mikhailovich Frank, for their 1934 discovery and demonstration of Cherenkov radiation.
He also predicted the Quasi-particle Phonon, and in 1951, together with Andrei Sakharov were the proposers of the Tokamak system.
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