Ghost Fleet makes the claim that many believe the Star Trek character Pavel Chekov is named after Pavel Cherenkov. In Starship Troopers spaceships travel faster than light using Cherenkov Drive. References External links Cherenkov's photo – from the Russian Academy of Sciences including his Nobel Lecture, December 11, 1958 Radiation of Particles Moving at a Velocity Exceeding That of Light, and Some of the Possibilities for Their Use in Experimental Physics 1904 births 1990 deaths Burials at Novodevichy Cemetery Experimental physicists Heroes of Socialist Labour Recipients of the USSR State Prize Full Members of the USSR Academy of Sciences Nobel laureates in Physics Particle physicists Soviet inventors Soviet Nobel laureates Soviet physicists Stalin Prize winners Communist Party of the Soviet Union members Voronezh State University alumni Academic staff of Moscow Power Engineering Institute Foreign associates of the National Academy of Sciences