Tamm, Igor Yevgenyevich (1895-1971), a Soviet physicist, shared the 1958 Nobel Prize in physics with Pavel A. Cherenkov and Ilya M. Frank. Tamm and Frank explained theoretically the origin of the blue light, or radiation, which Cherenkov discovered and which is now named for him. Tamm was born on July 8, 1895, in Vladivostok, Russia. He died on April 12, 1971.
