Isaak Pomeranchuk

Isaak Pomeranchuk
Исаак Померанчук
Born	Pomeranchuk, Isaak Yakovlevich (Померанчу́к, Исаа́к Я́ковлевич) (1913-05-20)20 May 1913 Warsaw, Vistula Land, Poland in Russian Empire (Present-day, Warsaw in Poland)
Died	14 December 1966(1966-12-14) (aged 53) Moscow, Russia in Soviet Union
Nationality	Polish
Citizenship	Soviet Union
Alma mater	Leningrad Polytechnic Institute
Known for	Soviet program of nuclear weapons
Awards	Order of Lenin (1952) Stalin Prize (1950)
Scientific career
Fields	Physics
Institutions	Institute for Theoretical and Experimental Physics Kharkov Institute of Physics and Technology Lebedev Physical Institute
Thesis	(1938)
Doctoral advisor	Lev Landau

Isaak Yakovlevich Pomeranchuk (Russian: Исаа́к Я́ковлевич Померанчу́к; 20 May 1913 – 14 December 1966) was a Soviet physicist of Polish origin in the former Soviet nuclear weapons program. His career in physics spent mostly studying the particle physics (including thermonuclear weapons), quantum field theory, electromagnetic and synchrotron radiation, condensed matter physics and the physics of liquid helium.

The Pomeranchuk instability, the pomeron, and a few other phenomena in particle and condensed matter physics are named after him.