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Pavel Alekseyevich Cherenkov
Full Name of the recipient | Pavel Alekseyevich Cherenkov |
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Award | Nobel Prize in Physics |
Year of Award | 1958 |
Share in Award | 33.3% |
Award Shared with | Igor Yevgenyevich Tamm (33.3%) Ilya Mikhailovich Frank (33.3%) |
Motivation for the Award | for the discovery and the interpretation of the Cherenkov effect |
Affiliation at the Time of Award | P.N. Lebedev Physical Institute, Moscow, USSR |
Place of Birth | Novaya Chigla, Russia RUS |
Date of Birth | 28 July 1904 |
Age at the time of Award | 53 years |
Place of Death | , USSR RUS |
Date of Death | 6 January 1990 |