Igor Y. Tamm

By: Darren Kueter B2

Igor Y. Tamm

• Igor was Born July 8, 1895.• In Vladivostok, Russia.• He is the son of Evgenij Tamm.• His father was an engineer.

Igor Y. Tamm

• His Mother was Olga Davydova.• His wife was Natalia Shuiskaya.• They had one daughter and one son together.

Schooling

• University of Edinburgh 1913-1914.• He graduated from Moscow State

University in 1918.• He specialized in Physics.• He immediately acquired a career.• It was in the higher institutes of learning.

Career

• Professor at J. M. Sverdlov Communist University.• Professor at Moscow State University 1924-1937• Scholar at P. N. Lebedev Physical Institute.

Nobel Prize

• He received the Nobel Prize for physics 1958.• He received it with Pavel A. Cherenkov.• He also received it with Ilya M. Frank.

Contribution to Science

• His early studies were devoted to…. • Crystallo-Optics.• Quantum theory of diffused light in solid

bodies.

Contribution to Science

• He then turned his studies to…• The Theory of Relativity.• Quantum Mechanics.

Contribution to Science.

• He evolved a method for…• Interpreting the interaction of nuclear

particles.• Together with I. M. Frank he developed…• The Cerenkov Effect.• The Theory of Showers in Cosmic Rays.

The Cerenkov Effect.

• Theoretical interpretation. • Radiation of electrons • Moving through matter.• Faster than the speed of light.

Contribute to Science

• Helped develop methods for control of thermonuclear reactions.

Books

• Tamm has written two books…• Relativistic Interaction of Elementary Particles

(1935)• On the Magnetic Moment of the Neutron

(1938).

Accomplishments

• Elected Corresponding Member of the U.S.S.R. • Academy of Sciences in 1933.• 1953 he became an Academician.

Accomplishments

• He was also a member of….• Polish Academy of Sciences.• American Academy of Arts and Sciences.• Swedish Physical Society.

Death

• Igor Tamm Died April 12, 1971.• Moscow, Russia.• Natural Causes.

Bibliography

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Unknown , Author. "IGOR YEVGENYEVICH TAMM." The Nobel Prize Interent Archive.. 2003 . Ona Wu., Web. 22 Feb 2010. <http://nobelprizes.com/nobel/physics/1958c.html>.