Ilya Frank
Ilya Mikhailovich Frank (Russian Илья Михайлович Франк; * 10 Oktoberjul / October 23 1908greg in Saint Petersburg, .. † June 22, 1990 in Moscow) was a Russian physicist and Nobel laureate.
Life
The son of the math professor Mikhail Ljudwigowitsch Frank and his wife Elizaveta Mikhailovna Grazijanowa went after his graduation in 1930 at the Moscow State University ( where he was a student of Sergei Ivanovich Vavilov ) initially to Professor Alexander Terenin ( 1896-1967 ) and moved to Leningrad in 1934 the Lebedev Institute of the Soviet Academy of Sciences. He habilitated in 1935 (Russian PhD ) and was collected in 1944 in the formal rank of professor. It was in 1941 head of the Laboratory of Nuclear Physics at the Lebedev Institute and was also appointed director of the neutron laboratory of the nuclear research center in Dubna in 1957.
Frank married in 1937 the historian Ella Abramovna Beilichis and had with her a son, Alexander.
Work
According to early investigations on the photoluminescence and Photochemistry he started in 1934 his work on nuclear physics at Skobeltzyn. In his major work, he studied the pair production by gamma rays as well as problems for the measurement and application of gamma rays and laid the theoretical foundations for understanding the Cherenkov effect.
Frank was awarded in 1958, together with Pavel Alekseyevich Cherenkov and Igor Tamm Jewgenjewitsch the Nobel Prize in Physics "for the discovery and interpretation of the Cherenkov effect".
Awards
- Corresponding Member of the Soviet Academy of Sciences, 1946
- Nobel Prize in Physics, 1958