Did Igor Tamm have any other co-awardees for the Nobel Prize?
Pavel Alekseyevich and Ilya Mikhailovich Frank
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Marie Curie
Answer
Igor Tamm shared the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1958 with Pavel Alekseyevich Cherenkov and Ilya Mikhailovich Frank. They were jointly recognized for their discovery and interpretation of the Cherenkov effect, a phenomenon in which charged particles traveling faster than the speed of light in a medium emit electromagnetic radiation. This discovery has significant implications in the fields of particle physics and astrophysics.
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