
Soviet physicist (1904-1990)
Pavel Cherenkov was a Soviet physicist who discovered the characteristic glow of light produced when charged particles move faster than light travels through a material, a phenomenon now called Cherenkov radiation. This discovery has become important for detecting and studying subatomic particles in modern physics research and experiments.
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Pavel Alekseyevich Cherenkov (Russian: Па́вел Алексе́евич Черенко́в [ˈpavʲɪl ɐlʲɪkˈsʲe(j)ɪvʲɪtɕ tɕɪrʲɪnˈkof]; 28 July 1904 – 6 January 1990) was a Soviet physicist who shared the 1958 Nobel Prize in Physics with Ilya Frank and Igor Tamm "for the discovery and interpretation of the Cherenkov effect".
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