Il’ja Mikhailovich Frank (1908-1990)

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

Soviet physicist. Frank was born in Leningrad on October 23, 1908. He graduated at the Moscow State University in 1930. In 1931 he became a senior scientific officer in the State Optical Institute in Leningrad, in 1934 he joined the Lebedev Institute of Physics Academy of Sciences. He was awarded the degree of Doctor of Physico-Mathematical Sciences in 1935 an officer in charge of the Atomic Nucleus Laboratory. Since 1957 he was Director of the Neutron Laboratory of the Joint Institute of Nuclear Investigations. In 1944 he was confirmed in the academic rank of Professor. Frank died in Moscow on June 22, 1990.