Ilya Frank, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Ilya Frank

Soviet physicist

Date of Birth: 10-Oct-1908

Place of Birth: Saint Petersburg

Date of Death: 22-Jun-1990

Profession: physicist, university teacher

Zodiac Sign: Libra

Ilya Mikhailovich Frank (Russian: ????´ ????´?????? ?????) (23 October 1908 – 22 June 1990) was a Soviet winner of the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1958 jointly with Pavel Alekseyevich Cherenkov and Igor Y.
Tamm, also of the Soviet Union.
He received the award for his work in explaining the phenomenon of Cherenkov radiation.
He received the Stalin prize in 1946 and 1953 and the USSR state prize in 1971.