| Igor Y. Tamm  AKA Igor Yevgenyevich Tamm
Born: 8-Jul-1895
Birthplace: Vladivostok, Russia
Died: 12-Apr-1971
Location of death: Moscow, Russia
Cause of death: unspecified
Gender: Male
Race or Ethnicity: White
Sexual orientation: Straight
Occupation: Physicist Nationality: Russia
Executive summary: Cherenkov radiation Father: Evgenij Tamm (engineer)
Mother: Olga Davydova
Wife: Natalia Shuiskaya (one daughter, one son)
University: University of Edinburgh (studied 1913-14)
University: Moscow State University (1918)
Professor: J. M. Sverdlov Communist University
Professor: Moscow State University (1924-37)
Scholar: P. N. Lebedev Physical Institute
Nobel Prize for Physics 1958 (with Pavel A. Cherenkov, Ilya M. Frank)
Hero of Socialist Labor
Russian Academy of Sciences 1933
American Academy of Arts and Sciences
Author of books:
Relativistic Interaction of Elementary Particles (1935)
On the Magnetic Moment of the Neutron (1938)
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