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Q155759 refers to a Soviet physicist who lived from 1895 to 1971 and made contributions to the field of physics during the Soviet era. While the specific details of this person's work and achievements aren't provided here, Soviet physicists from this period were important figures in developing nuclear science and other major physics breakthroughs of the 20th century.
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Person
- Born
- 1895-07-08
- Died
- 1971-04-12
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Key dates
- Born
- 8 July 1895
- Died
- 12 April 1971
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Family name
- Tamm
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- Soviet Union
- Place of birth
- Vladivostok
Article
Igor Yevgenyevich Tamm (Russian: И́горь Евге́ньевич Тамм; 8 July 1895 – 12 April 1971) was a Soviet physicist who received the 1958 Nobel Prize in Physics, jointly with Pavel Alekseyevich Cherenkov and Ilya Mikhailovich Frank, for their 1934 discovery and demonstration of Cherenkov radiation. He also predicted the quasi-particle of sound: the phonon; and in 1951, together with Andrei Sakharov, proposed the Tokamak system.
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1895 births1971 deathsAcademic staff of Moscow State Pedagogical UniversityAcademic staff of Moscow State UniversityAcademic staff of the Moscow Institute of Physics and TechnologyAlumni of the University of EdinburghBiography articles needing translation from Russian WikipediaExperimental physicistsFull Members of the USSR Academy of SciencesHeroes of Socialist LabourMembers of the German National Academy of Sciences Leopoldina