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Igor Tamm (1895-1971) was a physicist, professor, and inventor from the Russian Empire and the Soviet Union . He was born in Vladivostok and later died in Moscow . Tamm was educated at the University of Edinburgh and Moscow State University , including its MSU Faculty of Physics . His birth name was Igor Evgenievich Tamm .
He was a doctoral advisor to several notable physicists, including Andrei Sakharov , Vitaly Ginzburg , Nikita Moiseyev , Alexander Davydov , and Gersh Budker . Tamm's own doctoral advisor was Leonid Mandelstam . Tamm's academic discipline was focused on physics .
Tamm was known for a variety of contributions in the field of physics . Some of his notable works include the Frank-Tamm formula and Cherenkov radiation .
He received numerous awards throughout his career, such as the Lomonosov Gold Medal , Nobel Prize , Hero of Socialist Labor , Order of Lenin , Order of the Red Banner of Labour , Medal "For Valiant Labor in the Great Patriotic War of 1941-1945" , and the Stalin Prize .
