From JLab_News https://twitter.com/JLab_News on Twitter: #OTD in 1891 Soviet physicist Sergey Ivanovich Vavilov was born in Moscow.. Vavilov was known for his works with luminescence. In 1934, he co-discovered the Vavilov-Cherenkov effect, which garnered Pavel Cherenkov a #NobelPrize in Physics in 1958. https://twitter.com/JLab_News/status/1374704556223967237/photo/1 https://chirp.cooleysekula.net/attachment/71479