Ilya Michailowitsch Frank

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Ilya Frank

Ilya Frank ( Russian Илья Михайлович Франк ; born October 10 . Jul / 23. October  1908 greg. In St. Petersburg ; †  22. June 1990 in Moscow ) was a Soviet physicist and Nobel laureate .

Life

The son of mathematics professor Mikhail Lyudwigowitsch Frank and his wife Jelisaweta Michailowna Grazijanowa went after graduating in 1930 from Moscow State University (where he was a student of Sergei Ivanovich Wawilow ) to Professor Alexander Terenin (1896-1967) in Leningrad and moved to 1934 the Lebedev Institute of the Soviet Academy of Sciences . He was habilitated in 1935 ( Russian doctorate ) and raised to the formal rank of professor in 1944. In 1941 he was appointed head of the laboratory for nuclear physics at the Lebedev Institute and in 1957 he was also appointed director of the neutron laboratory at the Dubna nuclear research center .

Frank married the historian Ella Abramowna Beilichis in 1937 and had a son with her, Alexander .

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After initial investigations into photoluminescence and photochemistry , he began his work on nuclear physics at Skobeltzyn in 1934. In his main work, he examined pair generation by gamma rays as well as problems for the measurement and application of gamma rays and laid the theoretical foundations for understanding the Cherenkov effect .

In 1958 Frank was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics “for the discovery and interpretation of the Cherenkov effect” together with Pawel Alexejewitsch Tscherenkow and Igor Evgenjewitsch Tamm .

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SURNAME Frank, Ilya Mikhailovich
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Франк, Илья Михайлович (Russian)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Soviet physicist, 1958 Nobel Prize in Physics
DATE OF BIRTH October 23, 1908
PLACE OF BIRTH St. Petersburg
DATE OF DEATH June 22, 1990
Place of death Moscow