Pavel Alekseyevich Cherenkov
Nobel Prize in Physics 1958
“for the discovery and the interpretation of the Cherenkov effect”
Pavel Alekseyevich Cherenkov was a Soviet physicist. He shared the 1958 Nobel Prize in Physics for the discovery and interpretation of the Cherenkov effect, and he was affiliated with the P.N. Lebedev Physical Institute when awarded.
- Field
- Physics · Particle Physics
- Lifespan
- 1904–1990