Ilya Frank shares the Nobel Prize in Physics for interpreting the radiation emitted by charged particles moving through a medium faster than light propagates in that medium. His theoretical explanation, developed with Igor Tamm, clarified the Cherenkov effect.
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Ilya Mikhailovich Frank
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