Pavel Cherenkov
Soviet physicist (1904-1990)
Pavel Alekseyevich Cherenkov (July 28, 1904 – January 6, 1990) was a Soviet physicist. He shared the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1958 with Ilya Frank and Igor Tamm for the discovery of Cherenkov radiation, made in 1934.
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Cherenkov died on January 6, 1990 at a hospital in Moscow, Russia at the age of 85.