Igor Tamm
Born
Igor Yevgenyevich Tamm

(1895-07-08)8 July 1895
Vladivostok, Russian Empire
Died12 April 1971(1971-04-12) (aged 75)
Moscow, Russian SFSR,
Soviet Union
Resting placeNovodevichy Cemetery, Moscow
NationalitySoviet Union
Alma materMoscow State University
Edinburgh University
Known forTamm states
Neutron magnetic moment
Cherenkov–Vavilov effect
Frank–Tamm formula
Tamm–Dancoff approximation
Hydrogen bomb
Tokamak
Phonon
Awards1967 Lomonosov Gold Medal
1958 Nobel Prize in Physics
1954 Order of the Hero of Socialist Labour · Stalin Prize
Scientific career
FieldsParticle physics
Institutions
Second Moscow State University
Moscow State University
Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology
Lebedev Physical Institute
Doctoral studentsVitaly Ginzburg
Andrey Sakharov
Leonid Keldysh
Leonid Brekhovskikh
Anatoly Vlasov