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Pavel Cherenkov

Pavel Cherenkov
Russian physicist Pavel Cherenkov won the Nobel Prize in physics in 1958. Cherenkov discovered that certain liquids will glow when irradiated with gamma rays.
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Cherenkov, Pavel Alekseyevich
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