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and others. Investigating the physico-chemical processes 

 of nervous activity. Biochemistry of the Nervous System. 

 Kiev: 1954. 

 Office: Institute of Biophysics 



Leninskii Prospekt, 33 



Moscow, USSR 



FRANK, IL'YA MIKHAILOVICH (Physicist) 



I. M. Frank was born October 23, 1908. After graduating in 

 1930 from Moscow University, he worked in the State Optical 

 Institute. In 1934 he went to work at the Physics Institute of 

 the U.S.S.R. Academy of Sciences. He became a professor in 

 1944 at Moscow University. Since 1946 he has been a Corre- 

 sponding Member of the U.S.S.R. Academy of Sciences. He was 

 awarded a Stalin Prize in 1946, and in 1958 the Nobel Prize. 



Frank's major work is in physical optics and nuclear phy- 

 sics. Together with the Soviet scientist, I. E. Tamm, he gave 

 the theory of the Cherenkov effect. In cooperation with L. V. 

 Groshev, he studied pair formation. Frank, and his associates, 

 studied the physics of neutrons. 

 Bibliography: 



Function of excitation and curve of absorption in optical 

 disassociation of thallium iodide. Works of the State Optical 

 Institute, 1933, 9, #87. 



and I. E. Tamm. Coherent radiation of fast electrons in a 

 medium. Doklady Akad. Nauk S.S.S.R., New Series, 1937, 14, 

 #3. 



and L. V. Groshev. Formation of pairs in krypton under the 

 action of gamma rays. Izvest. Akad. Nauk S.S.S.R., Otdel. 

 Mat. i Estest. Nauk, Ser. Fiz., 1938, #1-2, 57-65. 

 and L. V. Groshev, E. L. Feinberg . Multiplication in 

 uranium-graphite systems. Session of the Academy of Sci- 

 ences on the Peaceful Utilization of Atomic Energy, July 1-5, 

 1955, Moscow, 1955. 



The Doppler effect in a refractive medium. Izvest. Akad. 

 Nauk S.S.S.R., Ser. Fiz., 1942, 6, #1-2, 3-31. 

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