Igor Tamm

thumb|Igor Tamm in 1958 Igor Yevgenyevich Tamm (July 8, 1895 – April 12, 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 of Cherenkov radiation. Quotes Creativity makes life valuable. Man is the sole creator; he stands out from the swarming masses of petty little folks. It doesn't matter what kind of creativity it is - whether scientific or socio-political - it's of equal value. as quoted by Gennadiĭ Efimovich Gorelik, Antonina W. Bouis The world of Andrei Sakharov: a Russian physicist's path to freedom Oxford University Press 2005 019515620X 41 External links Category:Physicists from the Soviet Union Category:Mathematicians from the Soviet Union Category:Nobel laureates in Physics Category:1971 deaths Category:Nobel laureates from the Soviet Union