Pavel A. Cherenkov

Nobel Prize 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

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From Nobel Lectures, Physics 1942-1962, Elsevier Publishing Company, Amsterdam, 1964

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