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Cherenkov

Cherenkov (sometimes spelled Čerenkov or Cerenkov) is a common Russian surname, which may refer to:

  • Pavel Alekseyevich Cherenkov (1904–1990), Soviet physicist and a recipient of the Nobel Prize in physics in 1958
  • Fyodor Cherenkov (1959-2014), Soviet and Russian footballer

Usage examples of "cherenkov".

You're in kind of a triplex arrangement, and Cherenkov has the one highest up.

He wished he had not given Cherenkov the key to his background by bringing up the De partment of Defense.

The invitation was general, but he had done a special one for Cosmonaut Cherenkov, and left it not only in electronic form on the web but in written form on his doorstep.

He wondered if he could get Cherenkov to talk about the past without putting his own cover at risk.

Brown stayed, he thought Cherenkov would be doing the ex pedition a favor to have the old woman sent home whether she wanted to go or not.

Then Cherenkov glanced at him, and Griffith knew that even if his tan did conceal the blush, Cherenkov noticed it.

He wanted to get Cherenkov to talk about his experiences, and he knew it would not be easy.

I never heard you talk about Thanthavong or Cherenkov like this, by the way.

Infinity had hoped Kolya Cherenkov might come, but maybe that was too much to ask.

Infinity admired Cherenkov, too, but Griffith's reaction bordered on worship.

But after Cherenkov left, the party bored him, the interactions between the people bored him.

It pushed away the depression that had settled when he could no longer keep Cherenkov in sight.

Even if Griffith stops us, he can't have Kolya Cherenkov taken off Starfarer.

All he had done, all he could do, was think about Nikolai Petrovich Cherenkov, and the Mideast Sweep, and the plans he himself had so carefully brought into being.

He was fast and he was well trained, but he knew Cherenkov would be more than ready for anything he tried.