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Ilya Frank

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Ilya Frank

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Also known as Ilya Mikhailovich Frank

Soviet physicist

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Ilya Frank was a person associated with the United States. He was born on October 10, 1908, and died on June 22, 1990. His Erdős number is 7.

Frank is recognized in the Nobel Laureates and Nobel Physics collections. The Nobel Prize records list one award under the name Il´ja M. Frank.

He is an author with eight works listed in Open Library, including "La Parure / The Necklace - Ilya Frank's Reading Method" and "El príncipe Tomasito y San José / Prince Tomasito and Saint Joseph." Crossref lists five of his works.

Synthesized by Vinony from 18 facts across 8 sources: Wikidata, Open Library, Last.fm, Crossref, MusicBrainz, Nobel Prize, Vinony collections, Vinony graph. Generated from structured data (not the Wikipedia text) and checked against those facts — may still contain errors.

Person · Open Library

Works
8

Top works

  • La Parure / The Necklace - Ilya Frank's Reading Method
  • Le Port / The Port - Ilya Frank's Reading Method
  • La morta e la viva / Die Tote und die Lebende - Lesemethode von Ilya Frank
  • La casa venduta / Das verkaufte Haus - Lesemethode von Ilya Frank
  • El príncipe Tomasito y San José / Prince Tomasito and Saint Joseph

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Music · MusicBrainz

Type
Person
Country
US
Active from
1915-12-12
Active to
1998-05-14

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Listeners · Last.fm

Listeners
1
Total plays
1

<a href="https://www.last.fm/music/Ilya+Frank">Read more on Last.fm</a>

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Recent publications · Crossref

5 total works indexed

  1. ImageNet classification with deep convolutional neural networks

    · 2017 · cited 32,002x

  2. The SILVA ribosomal RNA gene database project: improved data processing and web-based tools

    · 2012 · cited 29,160x

  3. A global reference for human genetic variation

    · 2015 · cited 17,760x

  4. Intermolecular interactions from a natural bond orbital, donor-acceptor viewpoint

    · 1988 · cited 16,695x

  5. Accurate normalization of real-time quantitative RT-PCR data by geometric averaging of multiple internal control genes

    · 2002 · cited 16,045x

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Nobel Prize

  • The Nobel Prize in Physics1958

    “for the discovery and the interpretation of the Cherenkov effect”

    Shared · 1/3 portion

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Wikidata facts

Instance of
human
Family name
Frank
Gender
male
Citizenship
Russian Empire
Place of birth
Saint Petersburg
Place of death
Moscow
Occupation
university teacher
Educated at
Russian Academy of Sciences
Employer
Institute for Nuclear Research
Languages spoken
Russian
Religion
Judaism
Academic degree
Bachelor of Science
Doctoral advisor
Sergey Vavilov
Student of
Sergey Vavilov
Field of work
physicist
Image
Ilya Frank.jpg
Work location
Soviet Union
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Commons category
Ilya Frank
date of birth
1908-10-23
date of death
1990-06-22
place of burial
Vvedenskoye Cemetery
member of
Russian Academy of Sciences
Erdős number
7
nominated for
Nobel Prize in Physics
maintained by WikiProject
WikiProject Mathematics
interested in
physics
Sources (4)

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Encyclopedic overview

Ilya Mikhailovich Frank (Russian: Илья Михайлович Франк; 23 October 1908 – 22 June 1990) was a Soviet physicist who received the 1958 Nobel Prize in Physics, jointly with Pavel Alekseyevich Cherenkov and Igor Y. Tamm, also of the Soviet Union. He received the award for his work in explaining the phenomenon of Cherenkov radiation. He received the Stalin prize in 1946 and 1953 and the USSR state prize in 1971.

Life and career

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