Nobel Prize in physics, 1958
firstname: Pavel A.
surname: Cherenkov
motivation: "for the discovery and the interpretation of the Cherenkov effect"
firstname: Igor Y.
surname: Tamm
motivation: "for the discovery and the interpretation of the Cherenkov effect"
firstname: Il´ja M.
surname: Frank
motivation: "for the discovery and the interpretation of the Cherenkov effect"