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Type Surname (from occupation & from nickname)
Gender Masculine
Usage Russian
Scripts Черенков, Черенкова(Russian)
Other Forms FormsČerenkov, Cerenkov, Cherenkova (Feminine)
Meaning & History
Derived from Russian черенок (čerenók) "handle, hilt", denoting a tall, thin person or a maker of such handles. Pavel Alekseyevich Cherenkov (1904-1990) was a Soviet physicist who shared the Nobel Prize in physics in 1958 with Ilya Frank and Igor Tamm for the discovery of Cherenkov radiation, made in 1934.