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Pavel Cherenkov

1904 - 1990

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Pavel Alekseyevich Cherenkov (Russian: Па́вел Алексе́евич Черенко́в [ˈpavʲɪl ɐlʲɪkˈsʲe(j)ɪvʲɪtɕ tɕɪrʲɪnˈkof]; 28 July 1904 – 6 January 1990) was a Soviet physicist who shared the 1958 Nobel Prize in Physics with Ilya Frank and Igor Tamm "for the discovery and interpretation of the Cherenkov effect". Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Pavel Cherenkov is the 141st most popular physicist (up from 146th in 2019), the 130th most popular biography from Russia (up from 172nd in 2019) and the 6th most popular Russian Physicist.

Pavel Cherenkov is most famous for his discovery of the phenomenon of Cherenkov radiation.

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Among PHYSICISTS

Among physicists, Pavel Cherenkov ranks 141 out of 851Before him are Robert Coleman Richardson, Emilio Segrè, Emil Lenz, George Gamow, C. V. Raman, and Arno Allan Penzias. After him are Benoît Paul Émile Clapeyron, Roger Penrose, Louis Néel, Rudolf Mössbauer, Kai Siegbahn, and Clifford Shull.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1904, Pavel Cherenkov ranks 16Before him are Jean Gabin, Wendell Meredith Stanley, B. F. Skinner, Ève Curie, George Gamow, and Johnny Weissmuller. After him are Harry Martinson, Louis Néel, Graham Greene, Alexei Kosygin, Kurt Georg Kiesinger, and Karl Brandt. Among people deceased in 1990, Pavel Cherenkov ranks 14Before him are Leonard Bernstein, Yun Posun, Ava Gardner, Friedrich Dürrenmatt, B. F. Skinner, and Roald Dahl. After him are Sarah Vaughan, Sergei Parajanov, Norbert Elias, Princess Sophie of Hohenberg, Ronald Evans, and Ilya Frank.

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In Russia

Among people born in Russia, Pavel Cherenkov ranks 130 out of 3,761Before him are Shamil, 3rd Imam of Dagestan (1797), Mikhail Glinka (1804), Sergey Kirov (1886), Vasili IV of Russia (1552), Mily Balakirev (1837), and Andrey Kolmogorov (1903). After him are Grand Duke Michael Alexandrovich of Russia (1878), Vasily Chuikov (1900), Konstantin Tsiolkovsky (1857), Valery Legasov (1936), Alexei Kosygin (1904), and Prince Paul of Yugoslavia (1893).

Among PHYSICISTS In Russia

Among physicists born in Russia, Pavel Cherenkov ranks 6Before him are Gustav Kirchhoff (1824), Wilhelm Wien (1864), Andrei Sakharov (1921), Mikhail Lomonosov (1711), and Arnold Sommerfeld (1868). After him are Ilya Frank (1908), Igor Tamm (1895), Alexei Alexeyevich Abrikosov (1928), Pyotr Kapitsa (1894), Vitaly Ginzburg (1916), and Nikolay Basov (1922).