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FROM THE HISTORY OF PHYSICS

A conceptual history of the Vavilov–Cherenkov radiation

I. M. Frank

Joint Institute for Nuclear Research, Dubna, Moscow region

Abstract: The evolution of ideas on the nature of the Vavilov–Cherenkov radiation is discussed. The period between Vavilov's ideas, advanced in 1934, and the formulation of a quantitative theory of the phenomenon in 1937 is surveyed.

UDC: 53(09)

PACS: 01.60.+q, 01.30.-y, 01.65.+g, 41.60.Bq

DOI: 10.3367/UFNr.0143.198405d.0111

 English version: Physics–Uspekhi, 1984, 143:5, 385–395