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Igor Tamm

Soviet physicist
Igor Yevgenyevich Tamm was a Soviet physicist who received the 1958 Nobel Prize in Physics, jointly with Pavel Alekseyevich Cherenkov and Ilya Mikhailovich Frank, for their 1934 discovery and demonstration of Cherenkov radiation. Wikipedia
Born: July 8, 1895, Vladivostok, Russia
Died: April 12, 1971 (age 75 years), Soviet Union
Children: Evgeny Tamm
Spouse: Nataliya Shuyskaya (m. 1917)