ILYA M. FRANK, 81
NOBEL PRIZE-WINNING PHYSICIST
Author: Associated Press
Date: Monday, June 25, 1990
Page: 13
Section: OBITUARY
MOSCOW -- Ilya M. Frank, a scientist who won the Nobel Prize in 1958 for
his work in neutron physics, has died, Soviet television reported yesterday.
He was 81.
The evening newscast "Vremya" said Mr. Frank died Friday, but gave no
further details.
"Soviet science suffered a great loss," the announcer said as a photograph
of Frank appeared on the TV screen.
The obituary was signed by Communist Party and government officials, as
well as fellow scientists.
Mr. Frank was born on Oct. 23, 1908, in Leningrad and graduated from
Moscow University in 1928. He worked at the Leningrad Optical Institute and
the Lebedev Institute of Physics. In 1944, he became a professor at Moscow
University and in 1957 was put in charge of the university lab.
Mr. Frank shared the Nobel Prize for physics in 1958 with two other
Soviets, Pavel Cherenkov and Igor Y. Tamm. He also received the Soviet Union's
Lenin Prize.
The scientist was a specialist in physical optics and nuclear physics who,
along with Tamm, explained the nature of and developed a theory on neutron
physics.
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