Igor Tamm

From Dirac-Tamm correspondence: [1]

Tamm was one of the first enthusiasts and promoters of alpinism in the Soviet Union, and he had interested Dirac in this sport. Together, they ascended Brocken (1142 m) in the Harz during their stay in Gottingen in July 1928.

Igor Evgen’evich Tamm, Sakharov’s teacher, Nobel Prize Winner in Physics (1958) and for many years Chief of the Theoretical Physics Department of the Lebedev Institute. In 1950 he and Sakharov moved from Moscow to Sarov to continue there the creation of the Soviet H-bomb. And then they proposed the “magnetic bottle” to hold hot plasma later developed by Lev Artsimovich and called Tokamak.

Dirac-Tamm correspondence

Compiled by Alexei Kojevnikov [2]:

but I could only find part I online.

Anecdotes

From Boris Altshuler's commemoration: [3]

You can see two marble plaques at the main entrance of the Lebedev Institute – of Tamm and of Sakharov. Both are from the Theoretical Physics Department.

Links

• Interesting paper on time-energy uncertainty relationship: http://daarb.narod.ru/mandtamm/mt-eng.pdf