biography
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Čerenkov, Pavel (Alexeyevich)
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also spelled Cherenkov
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pronunciation:
[cherengkof]
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| lived:
| (1904–90)
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| biography:
| Physicist, born in Novaya Chigla, SW Russia. He studied at Voronezh, and worked at the Academy of Sciences. In 1934 he noted the emission of blue light from water and other transparent media when atomic particles, moving at a speed greater than light in that medium, are passed through it. Subsequent researches by Tamm and Frank led to a definite explanation of this Čerenkov effect, for which all three shared the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1958. |
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