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Šafařik, Pavel Josef

(Encyclopedia) Šafařik, Pavel JosefŠafařik, Pavel Josefpäˈvĕl yôˈzĕf shäˈfär-zhēk [key], 1795–1861, Czech philologist and archaeologist; his name is also spelled Schafarik and Schafřík. Šafařik…

Garshin, Vsevolod Mikhailovich

(Encyclopedia) Garshin, Vsevolod MikhailovichGarshin, Vsevolod Mikhailovichfəsyĕˈvələt mēkhīˈləvĭch gärˈshĭn [key], 1855–88, Russian short-story writer. “Four Days” (1877), his story of a wounded…

Cherenkov, Pavel Alekseyevich

(Encyclopedia) Cherenkov, Pavel AlekseyevichCherenkov, Pavel Alekseyevichpäˈvĭl əlyĭksyāˈyəvĭch chərĕngˈkəf [key], 1904–90, Soviet physicist. He shared with the Soviet physicists I. M. Frank and I. Y…

Tchelitchew, Pavel

(Encyclopedia) Tchelitchew, PavelTchelitchew, Pavelpäˈvĕl chālēˈchĕf [key], 1898–1957, Russian-American painter. His first commissions, ballet designs, were given him while he was living in Berlin (…

Milyukov, Pavel Nikolayevich

(Encyclopedia) Milyukov or Miliukov, Pavel NikolayevichMilyukov or Miliukov, Pavel Nikolayevichboth: päˈvĭl nyĭkəlīˈəvĭch mēly&oomacr;kôfˈ [key], 1859–1943, Russian political leader and historian…

Tamm, Igor Yevgenyevich

(Encyclopedia) Tamm, Igor Yevgenyevich, 1895–1971, Soviet physicist, Ph.D. Moscow State Univ., 1933. He was a researcher at the P. N. Lebedev Physical Institute in Moscow from 1934 until his death in…

Frank, Ilya Mikhailovich

(Encyclopedia) Frank, Ilya Mikhailovich, 1908–90, Soviet physicist, Ph.D. Moscow State Univ., 1935. He was a professor at Moscow State Univ. from 1944 until his death in 1990. Mikhailovich and Igor Y…