Igor Tamm

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Igor Tamm
Игорь Тамм
Tamm in 1958
Born	Igor Yevgenyevich Tamm (1895-07-08)8 July 1895 Vladivostok, Primorskaya Oblast, Russian Empire
Died	12 April 1971(1971-04-12) (aged 75) Moscow, Russian SFSR, Soviet Union
Resting place	Novodevichy Cemetery, Moscow
Nationality	Soviet
Alma mater	University of Edinburgh Moscow State University
Known for	Tamm states Neutron magnetic moment Cherenkov–Vavilov effect Frank–Tamm formula Tamm–Dancoff approximation Hydrogen bomb Tokamak Phonon Quantum speed limit
Awards	Lomonosov Gold Medal (1967) Nobel Prize in Physics (1958) Hero of Socialist Labour (1954) Stalin Prize
Scientific career
Fields	Particle physics
Institutions	Second Moscow State University Moscow State University Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology Lebedev Physical Institute
Doctoral advisor	Leonid Mandelstam
Doctoral students	Leonid Brekhovskikh Leonid Keldysh Vitaly Ginzburg Igor Golovin Andrey Sakharov Anatoly Vlasov

Igor Yevgenyevich Tamm (Russian: И́горь Евге́ньевич Тамм; 8 July 1895 – 12 April 1971) 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. He also predicted the quasi-particle of sound: the phonon; and in 1951, together with Andrei Sakharov, proposed the Tokamak system.