Pavel A. Cherenkov was a physicist whose work helped build the foundation for modern nuclear physics. He is best known for his discovery in 1934 of Cherenkov radiation, which he first noticed as a faint blue light in water that was absorbing radiation....

The principal contribution of the Russian physicist Pavel Alekseevich Cherenkov (1904-1990) was the explanation of a certain pale bluish radiation as a consequence of high-speed electrons passing through refractive mediums. More is known about the...

Pavel Buchler Kunsthalle Bern October 21 to December 3 The approach to the Kunsthalle in Bern takes you across a high bridge over the river Aare, which flows in the gorge some 40 metres below you. The building sits on the edge...

Pavel Sudoplatov was the most sinister man in the Communist system. He was also the most secret, both in the former Soviet Union and during Perestroika, until three years ago, when his name appeared for the first time in the Russian press. He...