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...