Ilya Frank

Ilya Frank
Илья Франк
Frank in 1958
Born	Ilya Mikhailovich Frank (1908-10-23)23 October 1908 Saint Petersburg, Russian Empire
Died	22 June 1990(1990-06-22) (aged 81) Moscow, Russian SFSR, Soviet Union
Alma mater	Moscow State University
Known for	Cherenkov radiation Transition radiation Frank-Tamm formula
Awards	Stalin Prize (1946) Nobel Prize in Physics (1958)
Scientific career
Fields	Nuclear physics
Institutions	Moscow State University, Academy of Sciences of the USSR
Doctoral advisor	Sergey Ivanovich Vavilov

Ilya Mikhailovich Frank (Russian: Илья Михайлович Франк; 23 October 1908 – 22 June 1990) was a Soviet physicist who received the 1958 Nobel Prize for 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.