Cherenkov glow

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• Cherenkov, Pavel Alekseyevich — ▪ Soviet physicist Cherenkov also spelled  Čerenkov   born July 15 [July 28, New Style], 1904, Novaya Chigla, Russia died Jan. 6, 1990, U.S.S.R.       Soviet physicist who shared the 1958 Nobel Prize for Physics with fellow Soviet scientists Igor …   Universalium

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• Čerenkov radiation — (also spelled Cerenkov or Cherenkov) is electromagnetic radiation emitted when a charged particle (such as an electron) passes through an insulator at a speed greater than the speed of light in that medium. The characteristic blue glow of nuclear …   Wikipedia

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