Who did Igor Tamm share the 1958 Nobel Prize with?
Albert Einstein
Enrico Fermi
Pavel Alekseyevich Cherenkov and Ilya Mikhailovich Frank
Niels Bohr and Werner Heisenberg
Answer
Pavel Alekseyevich Cherenkov and Ilya Mikhailovich Frank, alongside Igor Tamm, were jointly awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1958 for their discovery and interpretation of the Cherenkov effect. This phenomenon refers to the faint bluish light emitted when charged particles move faster than the speed of light within a dielectric medium, similar to how a sonic boom occurs when an object exceeds the speed of sound in air.
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