 Aleksandr Chudakov was born on 16 June 1921, and graduated from Moscow State University (MSU) in 1948
.In 1953 his experimental confirmation of the existence of the transition radiation, which was predicted by Ginzburg and Ilya Frank in 1945, and the effect of decreasing ionization losses for narrow electron-positron pairs, known as the "Chudakov Effect", are among Chudakov's famous works.Phenomena similar to Chudakov Effect have been observed in quantum chromodynamics also.Chudakov was the author of series of experiments carried out in the 1950s, which focused on investigation of the cosmic rays outside of the atmosphere with rockets and first satellites.