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Ilya Frank

1908 - 1990

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Ilya Mikhailovich Frank (Russian: Илья Михайлович Франк; 23 October 1908 – 22 June 1990) was a Soviet physicist who received the 1958 Nobel Prize in Physics, jointly with Pavel Alekseyevich Cherenkov and Igor Y. Tamm, also of the Soviet Union. He received the award for his work in explaining the phenomenon of Cherenkov radiation. He received the Stalin prize in 1946 and 1953 and the USSR state prize in 1971. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Ilya Frank is the 190th most popular physicist (up from 198th in 2019), the 179th most popular biography from Russia (up from 233rd in 2019) and the 7th most popular Russian Physicist.

Ilya Frank is most famous for his work in the field of electroencephalography (EEG) and neurophysiology. He was a student of Hans Berger and he built upon his mentor's work, which led to the invention of the EEG.

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Among PHYSICISTS

Among physicists, Ilya Frank ranks 190 out of 851. Before him are Georg Christoph Lichtenberg, Jerome Isaac Friedman, Hans Geiger, Georg von Békésy, Douglas Osheroff, and George Smoot. After him are Isidor Isaac Rabi, Auguste Piccard, Val Logsdon Fitch, George Francis FitzGerald, Igor Tamm, and Hugh David Politzer.

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Among people born in 1908, Ilya Frank ranks 30. Before him are Ian Fleming, David Oistrakh, Józef Gosławski, Mika Waltari, Geli Raubal, and Mohammed bin Awad bin Laden. After him are Aden Adde, Michael DeBakey, Franz Stangl, Princess Sibylla of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha, Joseph Rotblat, and Nelson Rockefeller. Among people deceased in 1990, Ilya Frank ranks 20. Before him are Pavel Cherenkov, Sarah Vaughan, Sergei Parajanov, Norbert Elias, Princess Sophie of Hohenberg, and Ronald Evans. After him are John Bowlby, Robert Hofstadter, Patrick White, Lê Đức Thọ, Miguel Muñoz, and Sandro Pertini.

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In Russia

Among people born in Russia, Ilya Frank ranks 179 out of 3,761. Before him are Boris Berezovsky (1946), Alexey Stakhanov (1906), Gala Dalí (1894), Wladimir Köppen (1846), Alexander Oparin (1894), and Vasily Smyslov (1921). After him are Gotthard Heinrici (1886), Igor Tamm (1895), Anna Netrebko (1971), Andrey Vlasov (1901), Alexander Herzen (1812), and Ivan Krylov (1769).

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Among PHYSICISTS In Russia

Among physicists born in Russia, Ilya Frank ranks 7. Before him are Gustav Kirchhoff (1824), Wilhelm Wien (1864), Andrei Sakharov (1921), Mikhail Lomonosov (1711), Arnold Sommerfeld (1868), and Pavel Cherenkov (1904). After him are Igor Tamm (1895), Alexei Alexeyevich Abrikosov (1928), Pyotr Kapitsa (1894), Vitaly Ginzburg (1916), Nikolay Basov (1922), and Igor Kurchatov (1903).

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