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1908- . Russian physicist known for his work
on radiation. In 1934 Cherenkov had noted a
peculiar blue radiation sometimes emitted as
electrons passed through water. It was left
to Frank and his colleague at Moscow
University, Igor Tamm (1895-1971), to realize
that this form of radiation was produced by
charged particles travelling faster through
the medium than the speed of light in the
same medium. Frank shared the 1958 Nobel
Prize for Physics with Cherenkov and Tamm.