Ceremonial opening of monument to I. M. Frank and F. L. Shapiro – Joint Institute for Nuclear Research - Объединенный институт ядерных исследований

Ilya Mikhailovich Frank
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Ilya Mikhailovich Frank (Russian: Илья Михайлович Франк; 23 October 1908 – 22 June 1990) was a Soviet physicist who received the 1958 Nobel Prize in Physics, jointly with Pavel Alekseyevich Cherenkov and Igor Y. Tamm, also of the Soviet Union. He received the award for his work in explaining the phenomenon of Cherenkov radiation. He received the Stalin prize in 1946 and 1953 and the USSR state prize in 1971.
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Street in Moscow to be named after physicists Ilya Frank and Yulii Khariton – Joint Institute for Nuclear Research - Объединенный институт ядерных исследований
Ilya Mikhailovich Frank: first FLNP JINR director, laureate of Nobel Prize – Joint Institute for Nuclear Research - Объединенный институт ядерных исследований
Laid foundations: monument to I. M. Frank and F. L. Shapiro opened – Joint Institute for Nuclear Research - Объединенный институт ядерных исследований
Video: celebration of the 110th anniversary of I.M. Frank – Joint Institute for Nuclear Research - Объединенный институт ядерных исследований