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Cherenkov, Pavel Alekseyevich

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Cherenkov, Pavel Alekseyevich (pä`vĭl əlyĭksyā`yəvĭch chərĕng`kəf), 1904–90, Soviet physicist. He shared with the Soviet physicists I. M. Frank and I. Y. Tamm the 1958 Nobel Prize in Physics for his discovery (1934) of Cherenkov radiation Cherenkov radiation or Cerenkov radiation [for P. A. Cherenkov ], light emitted by a transparent medium when charged particles pass through it at a speed greater than the speed of light in the medium.
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. His research opened the way to new studies of high-energy subatomic particles and of cosmic rays.


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