1895 - 1971
Igor Yevgenyevich Tamm (Russian: И́горь Евге́ньевич Тамм; 8 July 1895 – 12 April 1971) was a Soviet physicist who received the 1958 Nobel Prize in Physics, jointly with Pavel Alekseyevich Cherenkov and Ilya Mikhailovich Frank, for their 1934 discovery and demonstration of Cherenkov radiation. Read more on Wikipedia
Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Igor Tamm has received more than 251,745 page views. His biography is available in 70 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 69 in 2019). Igor Tamm is the 133rd most popular physicist (down from 113th in 2019), the 181st most popular biography from Russia (down from 163rd in 2019) and the 7th most popular Russian Physicist.
Igor Tamm was a Russian physicist who was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1958 with Pavel Cherenkov and Ilya Frank for their work on the Cherenkov Effect.
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Among physicists, Igor Tamm ranks 133 out of 717. Before him are Arno Allan Penzias, Percy Williams Bridgman, Charles Glover Barkla, Hans Georg Dehmelt, Maurice Wilkins, and Ernest Lawrence. After him are Josiah Willard Gibbs, Benoît Paul Émile Clapeyron, Albert Fert, François Englert, Jean-Baptiste Biot, and Jacques Charles.
1933 - 2024
HPI: 66.16
Rank: 127
1882 - 1961
HPI: 66.15
Rank: 128
1877 - 1944
HPI: 66.03
Rank: 129
1922 - 2017
HPI: 65.93
Rank: 130
1916 - 2004
HPI: 65.93
Rank: 131
1901 - 1958
HPI: 65.91
Rank: 132
1895 - 1971
HPI: 65.89
Rank: 133
1839 - 1903
HPI: 65.84
Rank: 134
1799 - 1864
HPI: 65.82
Rank: 135
1938 - Present
HPI: 65.76
Rank: 136
1932 - Present
HPI: 65.72
Rank: 137
1774 - 1862
HPI: 65.70
Rank: 138
1763 - 1823
HPI: 65.64
Rank: 139
Among people born in 1895, Igor Tamm ranks 37. Before him are Oskar Dirlewanger, Wilhelm Burgdorf, Cemal Gürsel, Levi Eshkol, Vladimir Propp, and Ragnar Frisch. After him are Ludvík Svoboda, Machine Gun Kelly, László Moholy-Nagy, Khorloogiin Choibalsan, Princess Irina Alexandrovna of Russia, and Cristóbal Balenciaga. Among people deceased in 1971, Igor Tamm ranks 20. Before him are Lin Biao, Mátyás Rákosi, Wilhelm List, Gotthard Heinrici, Arne Tiselius, and Giorgos Seferis. After him are Arne Jacobsen, Donald Winnicott, Harold Lloyd, D. B. Cooper, François Duvalier, and Franz Stangl.
1895 - 1945
HPI: 66.89
Rank: 31
1895 - 1945
HPI: 66.53
Rank: 32
1895 - 1966
HPI: 66.41
Rank: 33
1895 - 1969
HPI: 66.14
Rank: 34
1895 - 1970
HPI: 65.97
Rank: 35
1895 - 1973
HPI: 65.92
Rank: 36
1895 - 1971
HPI: 65.89
Rank: 37
1895 - 1979
HPI: 65.75
Rank: 38
1895 - 1954
HPI: 65.66
Rank: 39
1895 - 1946
HPI: 65.41
Rank: 40
1895 - 1952
HPI: 65.07
Rank: 41
1895 - 1970
HPI: 65.03
Rank: 42
1895 - 1972
HPI: 64.82
Rank: 43
1907 - 1971
HPI: 66.97
Rank: 14
1892 - 1971
HPI: 66.61
Rank: 15
1880 - 1971
HPI: 66.54
Rank: 16
1886 - 1971
HPI: 66.31
Rank: 17
1902 - 1971
HPI: 66.10
Rank: 18
1900 - 1971
HPI: 66.07
Rank: 19
1895 - 1971
HPI: 65.89
Rank: 20
1902 - 1971
HPI: 65.85
Rank: 21
1896 - 1971
HPI: 65.78
Rank: 22
1893 - 1971
HPI: 65.72
Rank: 23
1931 - 1971
HPI: 65.66
Rank: 24
1907 - 1971
HPI: 65.14
Rank: 25
1908 - 1971
HPI: 64.72
Rank: 26
Among people born in Russia, Igor Tamm ranks 181 out of 3,262. Before him are Anatoly Karpov (1951), Alexander Friedmann (1888), Nicholas Roerich (1874), Vladimir Propp (1895), Seraphim of Sarov (1754), and Nikolai Vatutin (1901). After him are Ivan Bunin (1870), Alexander Rodchenko (1891), Wladimir Köppen (1846), Maya Plisetskaya (1925), Anastasia Romanovna (1530), and Grand Duchess Olga Alexandrovna of Russia (1882).
1951 - Present
HPI: 66.17
Rank: 175
1888 - 1925
HPI: 66.09
Rank: 176
1874 - 1947
HPI: 66.06
Rank: 177
1895 - 1970
HPI: 65.97
Rank: 178
1754 - 1833
HPI: 65.91
Rank: 179
1901 - 1944
HPI: 65.90
Rank: 180
1895 - 1971
HPI: 65.89
Rank: 181
1870 - 1953
HPI: 65.81
Rank: 182
1891 - 1956
HPI: 65.73
Rank: 183
1846 - 1940
HPI: 65.71
Rank: 184
1925 - 2015
HPI: 65.71
Rank: 185
1530 - 1560
HPI: 65.68
Rank: 186
1882 - 1960
HPI: 65.68
Rank: 187
Among physicists born in Russia, Igor Tamm ranks 7. Before him are Gustav Kirchhoff (1824), Andrei Sakharov (1921), Wilhelm Wien (1864), Mikhail Lomonosov (1711), Arnold Sommerfeld (1868), and Pavel Cherenkov (1904). After him are Igor Kurchatov (1903), Pyotr Kapitsa (1894), Alexei Alexeyevich Abrikosov (1928), Ilya Frank (1908), Nikolay Basov (1922), and Vitaly Ginzburg (1916).
1824 - 1887
HPI: 74.38
Rank: 1
1921 - 1989
HPI: 72.61
Rank: 2
1864 - 1928
HPI: 71.90
Rank: 3
1711 - 1765
HPI: 70.32
Rank: 4
1868 - 1951
HPI: 68.67
Rank: 5
1904 - 1990
HPI: 66.52
Rank: 6
1895 - 1971
HPI: 65.89
Rank: 7
1903 - 1960
HPI: 64.14
Rank: 8
1894 - 1984
HPI: 63.87
Rank: 9
1928 - 2017
HPI: 63.30
Rank: 10
1908 - 1990
HPI: 62.86
Rank: 11
1922 - 2001
HPI: 62.73
Rank: 12
1916 - 2009
HPI: 62.21
Rank: 13