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Also Known As	Cherenkov light

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Igor Yevgenyevich Tamm

Soviet physicist

Ilya Mikhaylovich Frank.

Ilya Mikhaylovich Frank

Soviet physicist

Pavel Alekseyevich Cherenkov

Soviet physicist

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