Isaak Pomeranchuk
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Isaak Yakovlevich Pomeranchuk (Russian: Исаа́к Я́ковлевич Померанчу́к; 20 May 1913 – 14 December 1966) was a Soviet physicist of Polish origin in the former Soviet nuclear weapons program. His career in physics spent mostly studying the particle physics (including thermonuclear weapons), quantum field theory, electromagnetic and synchrotron radiation, condensed matter physics and the physics of liquid helium.
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Исаак Померанчук | |
Born | Pomeranchuk, Isaak Yakovlevich (Померанчу́к, Исаа́к Я́ковлевич) (1913-05-20)20 May 1913 |
Died | 14 December 1966(1966-12-14) (aged 53) |
Nationality | Polish |
Citizenship | Soviet Union |
Alma mater | Leningrad Polytechnic Institute |
Known for | Soviet program of nuclear weapons |
Awards | Order of Lenin (1952) Stalin Prize (1950) |
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Fields | Physics |
Institutions | Institute for Theoretical and Experimental Physics Kharkov Institute of Physics and Technology Lebedev Physical Institute |
Thesis | (1938) |
Doctoral advisor | Lev Landau |
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The Pomeranchuk instability, the pomeron, and a few other phenomena in particle and condensed matter physics are named after him.