Ilya Frank

Ilya Mikhailovich Frank (

In 1944, Frank was appointed professor and became head of a department at the Institute of Physics and of the Nuclear Physics Laboratory (which was later transferred to the Institute of Nuclear Research). Frank's laboratory was involved in the (then secret) study of nuclear reactors. In particular, they studied the diffusion and thermalization of neutrons.^[1]

In 1957, Frank also become director of the Laboratory of Neutron Physics at the Joint Institute for Nuclear Research. The laboratory was based on the neutron fast-pulse reactor (IBR) then under construction at the site. Under Frank's supervision the reactor was used in the development of neutron spectroscopy techniques.^[1]

Personal life and death

Frank married the noted historian, Ella Abramovna Beilikhis, in 1937. Their son, Alexander, was born in the same year, and would continue much of the studies of his father as a physicist.^[1]

Frank died on 22 June 1990 in Moscow at the age 81.

See also

• List of Jewish Nobel laureates

References

Wikimedia Commons has media related to Ilya Frank.

• Ilya Frank on Nobelprize.org including the Nobel Lecture, December 11, 1958 Optics of Light Sources Moving in Refractive Media
• Ilya Mikhaylovich Frank – Source and photo on nobel-winners.com
• Ilja M. Frank Archived 2016-03-22 at the Wayback Machine
• Grave of Frank