Isaak Pomeranchuk
Isaak Pomeranchuk | |
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Исаак Померанчук | |
| Born | Isaak Yakovlevich Pomeranchuk 20 May 1913 |
| Died | 14 December 1966 (aged 53) |
| Alma mater | Leningrad Polytechnic Institute |
| Known for | Landau–Pomeranchuk–Migdal effect Pomeranchuk instability Pomeron Pomeranchuk cooling Pomeranchuk's theorem Pomeranchuk singularity |
| Awards | Order of Lenin (1952) Stalin Prize (1950) |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Physics |
| Institutions | Institute for Theoretical and Experimental Physics Kharkov Institute of Physics and Technology Lebedev Physical Institute |
| Thesis | (1938) |
| Doctoral advisor | Lev Landau |
Isaak Yakovlevich Pomeranchuk (Russian: Исаа́к Я́ковлевич Померанчу́к; 20 May 1913 – 14 December 1966) was a Soviet physicist of Polish origin in the former Soviet nuclear weapons program. His career in physics spent mostly studying the particle physics (including thermonuclear weapons), quantum field theory, electromagnetic and synchrotron radiation, condensed matter physics and the physics of liquid helium.
The Pomeranchuk instability, the pomeron, and a few other phenomena in particle and condensed matter physics are named after him.