Isaak Pomeranchuk
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Isaak Yakovlevich Pomeranchuk ' onMouseout='HidePop("22785")' href="/topics/Warsaw">Warsaw
, Russian Empire
— December 14, 1966, Moscow
, USSR) was a Soviet physicist
, who was the founder and first head of the theory division at ITEP
. The particle pomeron
is named in his honour. For his work, Pomeranchuk was twice awarded Stalin Prize (1950,1952).
Warsaw
Warsaw is the capital and largest city of Poland. It is located on the Vistula River, roughly from the Baltic Sea and from the Carpathian Mountains. Its population in 2010 was estimated at 1,716,855 residents with a greater metropolitan area of 2,631,902 residents, making Warsaw the 10th most...
, Russian Empire
Russian Empire
The Russian Empire was a state that existed from 1721 until the Russian Revolution of 1917. It was the successor to the Tsardom of Russia and the predecessor of the Soviet Union...
— December 14, 1966, Moscow
Moscow
Moscow is the capital, the most populous city, and the most populous federal subject of Russia. The city is a major political, economic, cultural, scientific, religious, financial, educational, and transportation centre of Russia and the continent...
, USSR) was a Soviet physicist
Physicist
A physicist is a scientist who studies or practices physics. Physicists study a wide range of physical phenomena in many branches of physics spanning all length scales: from sub-atomic particles of which all ordinary matter is made to the behavior of the material Universe as a whole...
, who was the founder and first head of the theory division at ITEP
ITEP
ITEP is an abbreviation that may mean:* Institute for Theoretical and Experimental Physics* Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy* International Test of English Proficiency...
. The particle pomeron
Pomeron
In physics, the pomeron is a Regge trajectory, a family of particles with increasing spin, postulated in 1961 to explain the slowly rising cross section of hadronic collisions at high energies.-Overview:...
is named in his honour. For his work, Pomeranchuk was twice awarded Stalin Prize (1950,1952).