The Nobel Prize in Physics 1958

Pavel Alekseyevich Cherenkov

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Prize share: 1/3

Il´ja Mikhailovich Frank

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Prize share: 1/3

Igor Yevgenyevich Tamm

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Prize share: 1/3

The Nobel Prize in Physics 1958 was awarded jointly to Pavel Alekseyevich Cherenkov, Il´ja Mikhailovich Frank and Igor Yevgenyevich Tamm "for the discovery and the interpretation of the Cherenkov effect."

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