Igor Yergenyevich Tamm (1895-1971)

Awarded the Prize “for the discovery the interpretation of the Cherenkov effect.”

Soviet physicist. Tamm was born in Vladivostok, Russia on July 8, 1895. He graduated from Moscow State University in 1918. He taught in the Crimean Moscow State Universities, in Polytechnical Engineering-Physical Institutes in the J.M. Sverdlov Communist University. Tamm was awarded the degree of Doctor of Physico-Mathematical Sciences, attained the academic rank of Professor. Since 1934, he was in charge of the theoretical division of the Lebedev Institute of Physics. He was Corresponding Member of the U.S.S.R. Academy of Sciences in 1953 he became an Academician. Tamm died in Moscow on April 12, 1971.