Science and Philosophy

• Ilya Frank

  Soviet physicist who studied electron radiation, gamma rays, and neutron beams.

  • 1958 Nobel Prize winner in Physics, with Pavel Cherenkov and Igor Tamm (see list of Winners of the Nobel Prize for Physics)
• Ilya Prigogine (born 1917)

  Russian-born Belgian chemist known for his work on nonequilibrium thermodynamics.

  • 1977 Nobel Prize winner in Chemistry (see list of Winners of the Nobel Prize for Chemistry)

The Literary World

• Ilya Ehrenburg (born 1891, died 1967)

  Russian novelist and short-story writer.

  • Wrote The Thaw (see list of Prose Writers of the 20th Century)