Pavel Alekseyevich Cherenkov was a Soviet physicist who shared the 1958 Nobel Prize in Physics with Ilya Frank and Igor Tamm "for the discovery and interpretation of the Cherenkov effect". The Nobel Prize in Physics 1958, announced October 28, 1958. Pavel A. Cherenkov, Il´ja M. Frank, and Igor Y. Tamm, “for the discovery and the interpretation of the Cherenkov effect”. Pavel A. Cherenkov: born 1904, Novaya Chigla, Russia. Il´ja M. Frank: born 1908, Leningrad (now St. Petersburg), Russia. Igor Y. Tamm: born 1895, Vladivostok, Russia. Wiki link Wiki link Wiki link Data: the Nobel Foundation (CC0).