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Georges Pire was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for his efforts to help refugees return to a life of freedom and dignity in the wake of World War II. Georges Pire Full name: Georges Charles Clement Ghislain PireBorn: 10 February 1910, Dinant, BelgiumDied: 30 January 1969, Leuven, BelgiumDate awarded: 10 November 1958 Humanist and european…

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Dominique Pire receiving his Nobel Prize medal from Gunnar Jahn, Chairman of the Norwegian Nobel Committee at the award ceremony at Oslo University, 10 December 1958.

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Biographical

Il’ja Mikhailovich Frank was born in Leningrad on October 23, 1908, the younger son of Mikhail Lyudvigovic Frank, a Professor of Mathematics, and his wife, Dr. Yelizaveta Mikhailovna Gratsianova. He attended the Moscow State University as a pupil of Vavilov, and graduated in 1930. In 1931 he became a senior scientific officer in Professor A.N.…

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Nobel Lecture

Nobel Lecture, December 11, 1958 Radiation of Particles Moving at a Velocity Exceeding That of Light, and Some of the Possibilities for Their Use in Experimental Physics Pdf 222 kB

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Nominations

The Nobel Prize in Physics 1958 Pavel A. Cherenkov, Il´ja M. Frank, Igor Y. Tamm Nominated on 2 occasions for the Nobel Prize in Submitted 2 nominations, for the Nobel Prize in   To cite this pageMLA style: “Il´ja M. Frank – Nominations”. Nobelprize.org. Nobel Media AB 2014. Web. 22 Jun 2018.

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