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Ilya Frank

1908 - 1990

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Ilya Mikhailovich Frank (Russian: Илья Михайлович Франк; 23 October 1908 – 22 June 1990) was a Soviet physicist who received the 1958 Nobel Prize in Physics, 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. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Ilya Frank has received more than 139,758 page views. His biography is available in 68 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 65 in 2019). Ilya Frank is the 198th most popular physicist (down from 195th in 2019), the 233rd most popular biography from Russia (up from 283rd in 2019) and the 11th most popular Russian Physicist.

Ilya Frank is most famous for his work in the field of electroencephalography (EEG) and neurophysiology. He was a student of Hans Berger and he built upon his mentor's work, which led to the invention of the EEG.

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Among PHYSICISTS

Among physicists, Ilya Frank ranks 198 out of 851. Before him are Robert H. Goddard, Nikolay Basov, Douglas Osheroff, Herbert Kroemer, Edward Mills Purcell, and Steven Weinberg. After him are Anton Zeilinger, Pyotr Kapitsa, Francesco Maria Grimaldi, Michio Kaku, David J. Wineland, and Mihajlo Pupin.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1908, Ilya Frank ranks 31. Before him are Hannes Alfvén, Joseph McCarthy, Princess Sibylla of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha, Franz Stangl, Amon Göth, and Joseph Rotblat. After him are Werner von Haeften, Manoel de Oliveira, David Lean, William Saroyan, Arthur Adamov, and Dmitry Ustinov. Among people deceased in 1990, Ilya Frank ranks 23. Before him are Yun Posun, Miguel Muñoz, John Bowlby, Tunku Abdul Rahman, Lawrence Durrell, and Bruno Bettelheim. After him are Robert Hofstadter, Sandro Pertini, Jacques Demy, Keith Haring, Boris Shcherbina, and Oldřich Nejedlý.

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In Russia

Among people born in Russia, Ilya Frank ranks 233 out of 3,761. Before him are Oleg Antonov (1906), Bruno Taut (1880), Sabina Spielrein (1885), Ivan Kramskoi (1837), Gennady Yanayev (1937), and Algirdas Julien Greimas (1917). After him are Daniel of Moscow (1261), Pyotr Kapitsa (1894), Gerhard Barkhorn (1919), Dmitry Kabalevsky (1904), Ivan Krylov (1769), and Leonid Kantorovich (1912).

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Among PHYSICISTS In Russia

Among physicists born in Russia, Ilya Frank ranks 11. Before him are Arnold Sommerfeld (1868), Pavel Cherenkov (1904), Igor Kurchatov (1903), Alexei Alexeyevich Abrikosov (1928), Igor Tamm (1895), and Nikolay Basov (1922). After him are Pyotr Kapitsa (1894), Vitaly Ginzburg (1916), Alexey Ekimov (1945), Yuri Oganessian (1933), Andre Geim (1958), and Vladimir Shukhov (1853).

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