Cherenkov, Pavel Alekseyevich
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▪ Soviet physicist
Cherenkov also spelled Čerenkov
born July 15 [July 28, New Style], 1904, Novaya Chigla, Russia
died Jan. 6, 1990, U.S.S.R.
A peasant's son, Cherenkov graduated from Voronezh State University in 1928; he later became a research student at the P.N. Lebedev Physical Institute. In 1934, working on his dissertation under the guidance of and in collaboration with Sergei Ivanovich Vavilov, he observed that electrons produce a faint blue glow when passing through a transparent liquid at high velocity. This Cherenkov radiation, which was correctly explained by Tamm and Frank in 1937, led to the development of the Cherenkov counter, or Cherenkov detector, that later was used extensively in experimental nuclear and particle physics. Cherenkov continued to do research in nuclear and cosmic-ray physics at the P.N. Lebedev Physical Institute. Cherenkov was elected to the U.S.S.R. Academy of Sciences (
Sciences, Academy of) as a corresponding (1964) and subsequently full (1970) member.
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