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Igor Yevgenyevich Tamm (
Russian И́горь Евге́ньевич Та́мм) (
July 8 1895 –
April 12 1971) was a
Soviet physicist,
mathematician and a
Nobel laureate.
Biography
Tamm was born in
Vladivostok,
Russian Empire (now
Russia), studied at the grammar school in
Elisavetgrad (now
Kirovohrad,
Ukraine). In
1913-
1914 he studied at the
University of Edinburgh together with his
gymnasium school friend
Boris Hessen. He then moved to the
Moscow State University from which graduated in
1918. In
1928 Igor Tamm spent a few months with
Paul Ehrenfest at the
University of Leiden.
In 1945 he developed an approximation method for many-body physics. As
Sidney Dancoff developed it independently in 1950, it's now called the
Tamm-Dancoff approximation.
He was the
Nobel Laureate in Physics for the year
1958 together with
Pavel Alekseyevich Cherenkov and
Ilya Mikhailovich Frank for the discovery and the interpretation of the
Cherenkov-Vavilov effect.
In
1951 together with
Andrei Dmitrievich Sakharov proposed a
tokamak system of the realization of
CTF on the basis of
toroidal magnetic
thermonuclear reactor and soon after the first such devices were built by the
INF
, resulting the T-3 Soviet magnetic confinement device from
1968, when the
plasma parameters unique for that time were obtained, of showing the temperatures in their machine to be over an order of magnitude higher than what was expected by the rest of the community. The western scientists visited the experiment and verified the high temperatures and confinement, sparking a wave of optimism for the prospects of the tokamak as well as construction of new experiments, which is still the dominant magnetic confinement device today.
Tamm died in
Moscow,
Soviet Union (now Russia).
Lunar crater
Tamm is named after him.
Tamm was a student of
Leonid Isaakovich Mandelshtam in science and life.
When captured by anti-communists during the Russian Revolution, he was forced to calculate the error of a
Taylor series approximation of n terms to save his life after he told them he was a mathematician.
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