Pavel Alekseyevich Cherenkov
Pavel Alekseyevich Cherenkov , 1904-90, Soviet physicist. He shared with the Soviet physicists I. M. Frank and I. Y. Tamm the 1958 Nobel Prize in Physics for his discovery (1934) of Cherenkov radiation . His research opened the way to new studies of high-energy subatomic particles and of cosmic rays.
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Louis Mitchell Coxetter
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
Louis Mitchell Coxetter , 1818-73, Confederate privateersman and blockade-runner, b...increasing effectiveness of the Union blockade, profiteering declined, Coxetter turned to blockade-running, at which he was equally successful.
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