Ilya Frank

Ilya Mikhailovich Frank (Russian: Илья Михайлович Франк; 23 October 1908 – 22 June 1990) was a Soviet physicist who received the 1958 Nobel Prize for 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.

For other uses, see Frank (disambiguation).
In this name that follows Eastern Slavic naming customs, the patronymic is Mikhailovich and the family name is Frank.
Ilya Frank
Илья Франк
Frank in 1958
Born
Ilya Mikhailovich Frank

(1908-10-23)23 October 1908
Saint Petersburg, Russian Empire
Died22 June 1990(1990-06-22) (aged 81)
Moscow, Russian SFSR, Soviet Union
Alma materMoscow State University
Known forCherenkov radiation
Transition radiation
Frank-Tamm formula
AwardsStalin Prize (1946)
Nobel Prize in Physics (1958)
Scientific career
FieldsNuclear physics
InstitutionsMoscow State University, Academy of Sciences of the USSR
Doctoral advisorSergey Ivanovich Vavilov
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