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Igor Tamm

Igor Tamm
Soviet physicist Igor Tamm won the 1958 Nobel Prize in physics. One of the great theoretical physicists, much of his ground-breaking research concerned the behavior of light, including his theoretical explanation of the Cherenkov effect.
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