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Igor Tamm

1895 - 1971

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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. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Igor Tamm is the 195th most popular physicist (down from 183rd in 2019), the 181st most popular biography from Russia (up from 211th in 2019) and the 8th most popular Russian Physicist.

Igor Tamm was a Russian physicist who was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1958 with Pavel Cherenkov and Ilya Frank for their work on the Cherenkov Effect.

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Among PHYSICISTS

Among physicists, Igor Tamm ranks 195 out of 851. Before him are George Smoot, Ilya Frank, Isidor Isaac Rabi, Auguste Piccard, Val Logsdon Fitch, and George Francis FitzGerald. After him are Hugh David Politzer, Horst Ludwig Störmer, Bertram Brockhouse, Max Delbrück, David Brewster, and Alexei Alexeyevich Abrikosov.

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Among people born in 1895, Igor Tamm ranks 38. Before him are J. Edgar Hoover, Cemal Gürsel, Aleksandr Vasilevsky, Cristóbal Balenciaga, Ludvík Svoboda, and Machine Gun Kelly. After him are Khorloogiin Choibalsan, Rudolph Valentino, Folke Bernadotte, Lij Iyasu of Ethiopia, Vladimir Propp, and László Moholy-Nagy. Among people deceased in 1971, Igor Tamm ranks 22. Before him are Theodor Svedberg, Arne Tiselius, Mátyás Rákosi, Harold Lloyd, D. B. Cooper, and Gotthard Heinrici. After him are Wilhelm List, François Duvalier, Rudolf Abel, Lin Biao, Franz Stangl, and Donald Winnicott.

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In Russia

Among people born in Russia, Igor Tamm ranks 181 out of 3,761. Before him are Gala Dalí (1894), Wladimir Köppen (1846), Alexander Oparin (1894), Vasily Smyslov (1921), Ilya Frank (1908), and Gotthard Heinrici (1886). After him are Anna Netrebko (1971), Andrey Vlasov (1901), Alexander Herzen (1812), Ivan Krylov (1769), Grand Duchess Anna Petrovna of Russia (1708), and Alexei Alexeyevich Abrikosov (1928).

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Among PHYSICISTS In Russia

Among physicists born in Russia, Igor Tamm ranks 8. Before him are Wilhelm Wien (1864), Andrei Sakharov (1921), Mikhail Lomonosov (1711), Arnold Sommerfeld (1868), Pavel Cherenkov (1904), and Ilya Frank (1908). After him are Alexei Alexeyevich Abrikosov (1928), Pyotr Kapitsa (1894), Vitaly Ginzburg (1916), Nikolay Basov (1922), Igor Kurchatov (1903), and Yuri Oganessian (1933).

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