Igor Yevgenyevich Tamm was a Soviet physicist who received the 1958 Nobel Prize in Physics, jointly with Pavel Alekseyevich Cherenkov and Ilya Mikhailovich Frank, for their 1934 discovery and demonstration of Cherenkov radiation.
12 Facts About Igor Tamm
2.
Igor Tamm predicted the Quasi-particle Phonon, and in 1951, together with Andrei Sakharov, proposed the Tokamak system.
3.
Igor Tamm was born in 1895 in Vladivostok into the family of Eugene Tamm, a civil engineer, and his wife Olga Davydova.
4.
Igor Tamm studied at a gymnasium in Elisavetgrad.
5.
Igor Tamm returned to the Moscow State University from which he graduated in 1918.
6.
On 1 May 1923, Igor Tamm began teaching physics at the Second Moscow State University.
7.
From 1934 until his death in 1971 Igor Tamm was the head of the theoretical department at Lebedev Physical Institute in Moscow.
8.
In 1932, Igor Tamm published a paper with his proposal of the concept of surface states.
9.
Igor Tamm was the Nobel Laureate in Physics for the year 1958 together with Pavel Cherenkov and Ilya Frank for the discovery and the interpretation of the Cherenkov-Vavilov effect.
10.
In 1951, together with Andrei Sakharov, Igor Tamm proposed a tokamak system for the realization of CTF on the basis of toroidal magnetic thermonuclear reactor and soon after the first such devices were built by the INF.
11.
Igor Tamm was a student of Leonid Isaakovich Mandelshtam in science and life.
12.
Igor Tamm died in Moscow, Soviet Union on 12 April 1971, the Lunar crater Igor Tamm is named after him.