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Igor Yevgenyevich Tamm ( Russian И́горь Евге́ньевич Та́мм, also transcribed sometimes as Igor' Evgen'evich Tamm) ( July 8 1895 – April 12 1971) was a Russian physicist.Tamm was born in Vladivostok, Russian Empire (now Russia). In 1913- 1914 he studied at the Edinburgh University. He graduated from the Moscow University in 1918.
He was Nobel Laureate in PhysicsList of Nobel Prize laureates in Physics from 1901 to the present day. 1900s 1910s 1920s 1930s 1940s 1950s 1960s 1970s 1980s 1990s 2000s 1900s 1910s 1920s 1930s 1940s 1950s 1960s 1970s 1980s 1990s 2000s External links Official site (source for all citatio for the year 1958Events January January 1 Treaty of Rome founding the EU is implemented January 4 Sputnik 1 falls to Earth from its orbit (launched on October 4 1957) January 8 14 year old Bobby Fischer wins the United States Chess Championship January 18 Armed Lumbee Nat together with Pavel Alekseyevich CherenkovPavel Alekseyevich Cherenkov ( Russian ) ( July 28, 1904 January 6, 1990) was a Soviet physicist and Nobel Prize winner. He was born in the town of Nizhniaya Chigla, Voronezh Oblast, Russia. His parents, Aleksei and Mariya Cherenkov, were peasants. He gra and Ilya Mikhailovich FrankIlya Mikhailovich Frank ( Russian: ) ( 1908 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 phenome for the discovery and the interpretation of the Cherenkov-Vavilov effectCherenkov radiation (also spelled Cerenkov is electromagnetic radiation emitted when a charged particle passes through an insulator at a speed greater than that of light in the medium. The characteristic "blue glow" of nuclear reactors is due to Cherenkov.
In 1951Events January events January 9 United Nations headquarters officially opens ( New York City). January 15 Ilse Koch, The "Witch of Buchenwald," wife of the commandant of the Buchenwald concentration camp, is sentenced to life imprisonment in a court in We together with Andrei Dmitrievich SakharovAndrei Dmitrievich Sakharov May 21, 1921 December 14, 1989), was a Russian nuclear physicist, dissident and human rights activist. Sakharov was an advocate of human rights, civil liberties, and Soviet Union reforms. He was born in Moscow and educated at M proposed a tokamakJET, showing hot plasma in the right image during a shot. A tokamak is a toroidal (doughnut-shaped) magnetic plasma confinement device, the leading candidate for producing magnetic fusion energy. The term tokamak comes from the Russian words: to''roidalna system of the realization of CTF on the basis of toroidal magnetic thermonuclear reactor and soon after the first such devices were built by the INF, resulting the T-3 Soviet magnetic confinment device from 1968, when the plasma parameters unique for that time were obtained, of showing the temperatures in their machine to be over an order of magnitude higher than what was expected by the rest of the community. The western scientists visited the experiment and varified the high temperatures and confinement, sparking a wave of optimism for the prospects of the tokamak as well as construction of new experiments, which is still the dominant magnetic confinement device today.
Tamm died in Moscow, Soviet Union (now Russia).
Tamm was a mentor to Leonid Isaakovich Mandelshtam in science and life.
