Pavel Cherenkov
Pavel Alekseyevich Cherenkov (Russian Павел Алексеевич Черенков, scientific transliteration Alexeevič Pavel Cherenkov, .. * Julijul 15 / 28 July 1904greg in Novaya Tschigla ( at Voronezh ); † January 6, 1990 in Moscow ) was a Soviet physicist.
Life
Cherenkov graduated in 1928 at the Faculty of the State University Voronezh mathematical and physical, two years later, he was a postdoctoral fellow at the Lebedev Institute of Physics at Sergei Ivanovich Vavilov. In the same year he married the daughter of a professor of Russian literature, the couple has two children. In 1934 he discovered in the work for his dissertation on the luminescence of uranium salts in sulfuric acid, the Cherenkov radiation, with substantial involvement of Vavilov, who suspected the origin of the observed in the liquid blue glow correctly in fast electrons. Therefore, the effect in Russia is named after Cherenkov and Vavilov. Cherenkov received in 1958 together with Ilya Mikhailovich Frank and Igor Tamm Jewgenjewitsch the Nobel Prize in Physics "for the discovery and interpretation of the Cherenkov light," and all three received before 1946 Vavilov the Stalin Prize for their discovery. Frank and Tamm had 1937 at the Lebedev Institute provided the theoretical justification for the Cherenkov radiation (which has its cause in the fact that the particle velocity, the local speed of light in the medium exceeds ).
P. Cherenkov was awarded the degree of candidate nauk ( PhD ) in 1935. Cherenkov was the second head of department and received in 1940 the higher doctoral degree ( doctor nauk ) (Russian doctor nauk, corresponding to the Habilitation in the West, nauk candidate equivalent doctoral degree ) of Mathematics and Physics Faculty. In 1953 he was appointed professor of experimental physics.
Since 1959, he headed the Fotomesonen process laboratory, in 1970 he became a member of the Soviet Academy of Sciences, 1984, he was awarded the Hero of Socialist Labor.
He was also involved in the construction of an electron accelerator and the investigation of photo - nuclear and photo - meson reactions.