What discovery led to Tamm's Nobel Prize?
Cherenkov radiation
Michelson-Morley Experiment
Photoelectric Effect
Rutherford's Model
Answer
The Nobel Prize in Physics in 1958 was awarded to Igor Tamm and Ilya Frank together with Pavel Cherenkov for their discovery and interpretation of the Cherenkov effect. The Cherenkov effect is the emission of light by a charged particle traveling in a dielectric medium at a speed greater than the phase velocity of light in that medium.
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