| var s_account="msnportalencartaau"; Print Tamm, Igor Yevgenyevich Article View On the File menu, click Print to print the information. Tamm, Igor Yevgenyevich Tamm, Igor Yevgenyevich (1895-1971), Soviet physicist and Nobel laureate, who based his work on relativity and quantum mechanics. Tamm was born in Vladivostok and educated at Moscow University. Considered one of the world's outstanding theoretical physicists, he developed (1924-1930) the quantum theory of acoustical vibrations and the scattering of light in solid bodies, as well as the theory of interactions of light with electrons. In 1933 he theorized on the existence of surface states (Tamm's levels) of electrons in semiconductors. In 1937 he and Ilya Frank worked out a theoretical interpretation for the Cherenkov effect. Tamm suggested (1950) the use of electric charges in ionized gases as a means of obtaining controlled thermonuclear power. For their work on the Cherenkov effect, Tamm, Frank, and Paul Cherenkov shared the 1958 Nobel Prize for Physics. "Tamm, Igor Yevgenyevich," Microsoft® Encarta® Online Encyclopedia 2007 | |
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