Talk:Igor Tamm
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The Igor Tamm article says that he was a mentor to Leonid Isaakovich Mandelshtam "in science and in life," while the Leonid Isaakovich Mandelshtam article says that he was a mentor to Igor Tamm. Since Mandelshtam was 16 years older than Tamm, it's probably just Mandelshtam who was a mentor to Tamm, unless the relationship was something other than that of a mentor.
The article now reads: "Tamm was born in Vladivostok... in an Estonian family migrated to the Far East". Being Tamm's great-grandson I know for sure that it is (the Estonian part) 100% wrong. Tamm was 25% German (from where his last name comes from), 25% Russian, 25% Ukrainian, and 25% Georgian, as far as I know. Moreover, original Latin transliteration of his family name was Thamm (or even Tham), he changed it himself while studying in Edinburgh. The result happened to coincide with a common Estonian family name - thus the "Estonian trace". Finally, I'm not sure that the family "migrated to the Far East". In fact, Tamm's father was appointed as a bridge engineer during the construction of the Trans-Siberian railway, and returned to Ukraine immediately after the work was done. Yours sincerely, Mikhail Tamm 195.91.218.129 11:13, 3 April 2007 (UTC)
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[edit] Estonians
I have removed to cat for Estonian descent. Matthew_hk tc 22:54, 23 February 2008 (UTC)
