Lomonosov Gold Medal
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The Lomonosov Gold Medal, named after Russia
n scientist and polymath
Mikhail Lomonosov
, is awarded each year since 1959 for outstanding achievements in the natural sciences and the humanities by the USSR
Academy of Sciences and later the Russian Academy of Sciences
(RAS). Two medals are awarded annually: one to a Russian and one to a foreign scientist. It is the Academy's highest accolade.
: for her work on boundary-layer theory in mathematics
Sin-Itiro Tomonaga
(member of the Japanese academy of Sciences, president of the Scientific Council of Japan) : for substantial scientific contributions to the development of physics.
Hideki Yukawa
(member of the Japanese academy of Sciences, director of the Institute of Basic Research at the University of Kyoto) : for outstanding merits in the development of theoretical physics.
Sir Howard Walter Florey
(professor, president of the Royal Society of Great Britain) : for an outstanding contribution in the development of medicine.
Cecil Frank Powell
(professor, member of the Royal Society of Great Britain) : for outstanding achievements in the physics of elementary particles.
István Rusznyák (president of the Academy of Sciences of the Hungarian People's Republics) : for outstanding achievements in medicine.
Giulio Natta
(professor, Italy) : for outstanding achievements in the chemistry of polymers
Arnaud Denjoy
(member of the Academie Francaise) : for outstanding achievements in mathematics.
Hannes Alfvén
(professor, member of the Royal Academy of Sciences in Stockholm, Sweden) : for outstanding achievements in physics of plasma and astrophysics.
Max Steenbeck
(full member of the Academy of Sciences of the German Democratic Republic) : for outstanding achievements in the physics of plasma and applied physics.
Vladimír Zoubek
(full member of the Czechoslovak Academy of Sciences) : for outstanding achievements in geology.
Angel Tonchev Balevski (full member of the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences) : for outstanding achievements in metallurgy and metal technology.
Maurice Roy
(full member of the Academie Francaise) : for outstanding achievements in mechanics and its applications.
Herman Klare (full member of the Academy of Sciences of the German Democratic Republic) : for outstanding achievements in the chemistry and technology of man-made fibers.
Linus Carl Pauling (member of the US National Academy of Sciences) : for outstanding achievements in chemistry and biochemistry.
Alexander Robertus Todd (professor, president of the Royal Society of Great Britain) : for outstanding achievements in organic chemistry.
: for outstanding achievements in biochemistry.
Béla Szőkefalvi-Nagy
(full member of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences) : for outstanding achievements in mathematics.
Jaroslav Kožešník (full member of the Czechoslovak Academy of Sciences) : for outstanding achievements in applied mathematics and mechanics.
, radio engineering and electronics
.
Pavle Savich (full member of the Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts, Socialst Federativ Republic of Yugoslavia) : for outstanding achievements in chemistry and physics.
Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin
(professor, member of the London Royal Society) : for outstanding achievements in biochemistry and crystal chemistry.
Abdus Salam
(professor, Pakistan) : for outstanding achievements in physics.
Rudolf Mössbauer (professor, Federal Republic of Germany) : for outstanding achievements in physics.
Guillermo Haro
(professor, Mexico) : for outstanding achievements in astrophysics.
: for outstanding achievements in ophthalmology and eye microsurgery.
Josef Řiman (academician, Chairman of the Czechoslovak Academy of Sciences) : for outstanding achievements in biochemistry.
: for outstanding achievements in physics.
John Bardeen
(professor, USA) : for outstanding achievements in physics.
(posthumously) : for outstanding achievements in mathematics.
Jean Leray
(professor, France) : for outstanding achievements in mathematics.
Hans Bethe
(professor, USA) : for outstanding achievements in physics.
John Kenneth Galbraith
(professor, USA) : for outstanding achievements in economic and social sciences.
James D. Watson
(professor, USA) : for outstanding achievements in molecular biology.
Anatole Abragam
(professor, France) : for outstanding achievements in physics of condensed state and methods of research in nuclear physics.
: for outstanding achievements in the mathematical theory of control and the theory of differential game
s.
Friedrich Hirzebruch
(professor, Federal Republic of Germany) : for outstanding achievements in algebraic geometry and algebraic topology.
: for outstanding achievements in the studies of the early biosphere of the Earth, the discovery of the ancient Wend geological system and classical works in fossil corals.
Frank Press
(professor, USA) : for outstanding achievements in the physics of solid Earth.
: for an outstanding contribution into the development of Russian literature, Russian language and Russian history.
Yosikazu Nakamura (professor, Japan) : for an outstanding contribution to the study of Slavistics and the popularization of Russian literature and culture in Japan.
Michael Müller-Wille (professor, Germany): for achievements in the study of foreign relations of early medieval Russia.
Charles Hard Townes
(professor, United States): for fundamental works in quantum electronics leading to the development of the maser and laser.
: for achievements in the study of the structure of nucleic acids and the functions of ribosomes.
Alexander Rich
(professor, United States) : for achievements in the study of the structure of nucleic acids and the functions of ribosomes.
: for outstanding achievements in mathematics.
Lennart Carleson
(professor, Sweden) : for outstanding achievements in mathematics.
: for outstanding achievements in cardiology.
Michael E. DeBakey
(professor, United States) : for outstanding achievements in cardiology.
: for his outstanding contribution to the creation of new models and methods of solving problems of nuclear-reactor physics, atmosphere and ocean physics.
Edward N. Lorenz (professor, United States): for major achievements in developing the theory of general circulation of the atmosphere and the theory of chaotic attractors of dissipative systems.
: for outstanding achievements in solid state physics.
Peter Hirsch
(professor, Great Britain) : for outstanding achievements in solid state physics.
Rodney Charles Ewing (professor, United States) : for his research on the nuclear fuel cycle and nuclear waste management.
Simon Franklin
(professor, Great Britain) : for outstanding achievements in research in Russian history and culture.
: for outstanding contributions in the development of the social sciences.
Hélène Carrère d’Encausse (professor, France) : for outstanding achievements in research of political and social processes in soviet and postsoviet periods of Russia.
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Ryōji Noyori
(professor, Japan): for outstanding contributions in the development of organic chemistry
and catalytic asymmetric synthesis.
Gerardus 't Hooft
(professor, Netherlands): for outstanding contributions in physics.
Russia
Russia or , officially known as both Russia and the Russian Federation , is a country in northern Eurasia. It is a federal semi-presidential republic, comprising 83 federal subjects...
n scientist and polymath
Polymath
A polymath is a person whose expertise spans a significant number of different subject areas. In less formal terms, a polymath may simply be someone who is very knowledgeable...
Mikhail Lomonosov
Mikhail Lomonosov
Mikhail Vasilyevich Lomonosov was a Russian polymath, scientist and writer, who made important contributions to literature, education, and science. Among his discoveries was the atmosphere of Venus. His spheres of science were natural science, chemistry, physics, mineralogy, history, art,...
, is awarded each year since 1959 for outstanding achievements in the natural sciences and the humanities by the USSR
Soviet Union
The Soviet Union , officially the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics , was a constitutionally socialist state that existed in Eurasia between 1922 and 1991....
Academy of Sciences and later the Russian Academy of Sciences
Russian Academy of Sciences
The Russian Academy of Sciences consists of the national academy of Russia and a network of scientific research institutes from across the Russian Federation as well as auxiliary scientific and social units like libraries, publishers and hospitals....
(RAS). Two medals are awarded annually: one to a Russian and one to a foreign scientist. It is the Academy's highest accolade.
1964
Olga Arsenievna OleinikOlga Arsenievna Oleinik
Olga Arsenievna Oleinik was a Soviet mathematician who conducted pioneering work on the theory of partial differential equations, the theory of strongly inhomogeneous elastic media, and the mathematical theory of boundary layers. She was a student of Ivan Petrovsky...
: for her work on boundary-layer theory in mathematics
Sin-Itiro Tomonaga
Sin-Itiro Tomonaga
was a Japanese physicist, influential in the development of quantum electrodynamics, work for which he was jointly awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1965 along with Richard Feynman and Julian Schwinger.-Biography:...
(member of the Japanese academy of Sciences, president of the Scientific Council of Japan) : for substantial scientific contributions to the development of physics.
Hideki Yukawa
Hideki Yukawa
né , was a Japanese theoretical physicist and the first Japanese Nobel laureate.-Biography:Yukawa was born in Tokyo and grew up in Kyoto. In 1929, after receiving his degree from Kyoto Imperial University, he stayed on as a lecturer for four years. After graduation, he was interested in...
(member of the Japanese academy of Sciences, director of the Institute of Basic Research at the University of Kyoto) : for outstanding merits in the development of theoretical physics.
1965
Nikolai Vasilevich Belov : accumulatively for works in crystallography.Sir Howard Walter Florey
Howard Walter Florey
Howard Walter Florey, Baron Florey OM FRS was an Australian pharmacologist and pathologist who shared the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1945 with Sir Ernst Boris Chain and Sir Alexander Fleming for his role in the making of penicillin. Florey's discoveries are estimated to have saved...
(professor, president of the Royal Society of Great Britain) : for an outstanding contribution in the development of medicine.
1967
Igor Yevgenyevich Tamm : for outstanding achievements in the theory of elementary particles and other domain of theoretical physicsCecil Frank Powell
Cecil Frank Powell
Cecil Frank Powell, FRS was a British physicist, and Nobel Prize in Physics laureate for his development of the photographic method of studying nuclear processes and for the resulting discovery of the pion , a heavy subatomic particle.Powell was born in Tonbridge, Kent, England, the son of a local...
(professor, member of the Royal Society of Great Britain) : for outstanding achievements in the physics of elementary particles.
1968
Vladimir Aleksandrovich Engelgardt : for outstanding achievements in biochemistry and molecular biology.István Rusznyák (president of the Academy of Sciences of the Hungarian People's Republics) : for outstanding achievements in medicine.
1969
Nikolay Nikolaevich Semenov : for outstanding achievements in chemical physics.Giulio Natta
Giulio Natta
Giulio Natta was an Italian chemist and Nobel laureate. He won a Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1963 with Karl Ziegler for work on high polymers.-Early years:...
(professor, Italy) : for outstanding achievements in the chemistry of polymers
1970
Ivan Matveevich Vinogradov : for outstanding studies in mathematics.Arnaud Denjoy
Arnaud Denjoy
Arnaud Denjoy was a French mathematician.Denjoy was born in Auch, Gers. His contributions include work in harmonic analysis and differential equations. His integral was the first to be able to integrate all derivatives...
(member of the Academie Francaise) : for outstanding achievements in mathematics.
1971
Viktor Amazaspovich Ambartsumian : for outstanding achievements in astronomy and astrophysics.Hannes Alfvén
Hannes Alfvén
Hannes Olof Gösta Alfvén was a Swedish electrical engineer, plasma physicist and winner of the 1970 Nobel Prize in Physics for his work on magnetohydrodynamics . He described the class of MHD waves now known as Alfvén waves...
(professor, member of the Royal Academy of Sciences in Stockholm, Sweden) : for outstanding achievements in physics of plasma and astrophysics.
1972
Nikoloz Muskhelishvili : for outstanding achievements in mathematics and mechanics.Max Steenbeck
Max Steenbeck
Max Christian Theodor Steenbeck was a German physicist who worked at the Siemens-Schuckertwerke in his early career, during which time he invented the betatron in 1934. He was taken to the Soviet Union after World War II , and he contributed to the Soviet atomic bomb project...
(full member of the Academy of Sciences of the German Democratic Republic) : for outstanding achievements in the physics of plasma and applied physics.
1973
Aleksandr Pavlovich Vinogradov : for outstanding achievements in geochemistry.Vladimír Zoubek
Vladimír Zoubek
Vladimír Zoubek was a Czech geologist. He won the Lomonosov Prize for his contributions to geology.The mineral Zoubekite is named after him....
(full member of the Czechoslovak Academy of Sciences) : for outstanding achievements in geology.
1974
Aleksandr Ivanovich Tselikov : for outstanding achievements in metallurgy and metal technology.Angel Tonchev Balevski (full member of the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences) : for outstanding achievements in metallurgy and metal technology.
1975
Mstislav Vsevolodovich Keldysh : for outstanding achievements in mathematics, mechanics and space research.Maurice Roy
Maurice Roy
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(full member of the Academie Francaise) : for outstanding achievements in mechanics and its applications.
1976
Semyon Isaakovich Volfkovich : for outstanding achievements in chemistry and the technology of phosphorus and the development of scientific foundations of chemicalization of agriculture in the USSR.Herman Klare (full member of the Academy of Sciences of the German Democratic Republic) : for outstanding achievements in the chemistry and technology of man-made fibers.
1977
Mikhail Alekseevich Lavrentiev : for outstanding achievements in mathematics and mechanics.Linus Carl Pauling (member of the US National Academy of Sciences) : for outstanding achievements in chemistry and biochemistry.
1978
Anatolii Petrovich Aleksandrov : for outstanding achievements in nuclear science and technology.Alexander Robertus Todd (professor, president of the Royal Society of Great Britain) : for outstanding achievements in organic chemistry.
1979
Aleksandr Ivanovich OparinAleksandr Oparin
Alexander Ivanovich Oparin was a Soviet biochemist notable for his contributions to the theory of the origin of life, and for his authorship of the book The Origin of Life. He also studied the biochemistry of material processing by plants, and enzyme reactions in plant cells...
: for outstanding achievements in biochemistry.
Béla Szőkefalvi-Nagy
Bela Szokefalvi-Nagy
Béla Szőkefalvi-Nagy was a Hungarian mathematician. His father, Gyula Szőkefalvi-Nagy was also a famed mathematician. Szőkefalvi-Nagy collaborated with Alfréd Haar and Frigyes Riesz, founders of the Szegedian school of mathematics. He contributed to the theory of Fourier series and approximation...
(full member of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences) : for outstanding achievements in mathematics.
1980
Boris Yevgenevich Paton : for outstanding achievements in metallurgy and metal technology.Jaroslav Kožešník (full member of the Czechoslovak Academy of Sciences) : for outstanding achievements in applied mathematics and mechanics.
1981
Vladimir Aleksandrovich Kotelnikov : for outstanding achievements in radiophysicsRadiophysics
Radiophysics is a branch of physics focused on the theoretical and experimental study of certain kinds of radiation: its emission, propagation, and interaction with the medium.The term is used in the following major meanings:...
, radio engineering and electronics
Electronics
Electronics is the branch of science, engineering and technology that deals with electrical circuits involving active electrical components such as vacuum tubes, transistors, diodes and integrated circuits, and associated passive interconnection technologies...
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Pavle Savich (full member of the Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts, Socialst Federativ Republic of Yugoslavia) : for outstanding achievements in chemistry and physics.
1982
Julii Borisovich Khariton : for outstanding achievements in physics.Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin
Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin
Dorothy Mary Hodgkin OM, FRS , née Crowfoot, was a British chemist, credited with the development of protein crystallography....
(professor, member of the London Royal Society) : for outstanding achievements in biochemistry and crystal chemistry.
1983
Andrei Lvovich Kursanov : for outstanding achievements in physiology and biochemistry of plants.Abdus Salam
Abdus Salam
Mohammad Abdus Salam, NI, SPk Mohammad Abdus Salam, NI, SPk Mohammad Abdus Salam, NI, SPk (Urdu: محمد عبد السلام, pronounced , (January 29, 1926– November 21, 1996) was a Pakistani theoretical physicist and Nobel laureate in Physics for his work on the electroweak unification of the...
(professor, Pakistan) : for outstanding achievements in physics.
1984
Nikolai Nikolaevich Bogolyubov : for outstanding achievements in mathematics and theoretical physics.Rudolf Mössbauer (professor, Federal Republic of Germany) : for outstanding achievements in physics.
1985
Mikhail Aleksandrovich Sadovsky : for outstanding achievements in geology and geophysics.Guillermo Haro
Guillermo Haro
Professor Guillermo Haro was born in Mexico City where he grew during the time of the Mexican Revolution. He studied philosophy at the National Autonomous University of Mexico...
(professor, Mexico) : for outstanding achievements in astrophysics.
1986
Svyatoslav Nikolaevich FyodorovSvyatoslav Fyodorov
Svyatoslav Nikolayevich Fyodorov was a Russian ophthalmologist, eye microsurgeon, professor, full member of the Russian Academy of Sciences and Russian Academy of Medical Sciences and politician...
: for outstanding achievements in ophthalmology and eye microsurgery.
Josef Řiman (academician, Chairman of the Czechoslovak Academy of Sciences) : for outstanding achievements in biochemistry.
1987
Aleksandr Mikhailovich ProkhorovAleksandr Mikhailovich Prokhorov
Alexander Mikhaylovich Prokhorov was a Russian physicist known for his pioneering research on lasers and masers for which he shared the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1964 with Charles Hard Townes and Nikolay Basov....
: for outstanding achievements in physics.
John Bardeen
John Bardeen
John Bardeen was an American physicist and electrical engineer, the only person to have won the Nobel Prize in Physics twice: first in 1956 with William Shockley and Walter Brattain for the invention of the transistor; and again in 1972 with Leon Neil Cooper and John Robert Schrieffer for a...
(professor, USA) : for outstanding achievements in physics.
1988
Sergei Lvovich SobolevSergei Lvovich Sobolev
Sergei Lvovich Sobolev was a Soviet mathematician working in mathematical analysis and partial differential equations. He was born in St. Petersburg, and died in Moscow.-Work:...
(posthumously) : for outstanding achievements in mathematics.
Jean Leray
Jean Leray
Jean Leray was a French mathematician, who worked on both partial differential equations and algebraic topology....
(professor, France) : for outstanding achievements in mathematics.
1989
Nikolai Gennadievich Basov : for outstanding achievements in physics.Hans Bethe
Hans Bethe
Hans Albrecht Bethe was a German-American nuclear physicist, and Nobel laureate in physics for his work on the theory of stellar nucleosynthesis. A versatile theoretical physicist, Bethe also made important contributions to quantum electrodynamics, nuclear physics, solid-state physics and...
(professor, USA) : for outstanding achievements in physics.
1993
Dmitri Sergeevich Likhachev : for outstanding achievements in the humanities.John Kenneth Galbraith
John Kenneth Galbraith
John Kenneth "Ken" Galbraith , OC was a Canadian-American economist. He was a Keynesian and an institutionalist, a leading proponent of 20th-century American liberalism...
(professor, USA) : for outstanding achievements in economic and social sciences.
1994
Nikolai Konstantinovich Kochetkov : for outstanding achievements in the chemistry of carbohydrates and organic synthesis.James D. Watson
James D. Watson
James Dewey Watson is an American molecular biologist, geneticist, and zoologist, best known as one of the co-discoverers of the structure of DNA in 1953 with Francis Crick...
(professor, USA) : for outstanding achievements in molecular biology.
1995
Vitaly Lazarevich Ginzburg : for outstanding achievements in theoretical physics and astrophysics.Anatole Abragam
Anatole Abragam
Anatole Abragam was a French physicist who wrote The Principles of Nuclear Magnetism and has made significant contributions to the field of nuclear magnetic resonance. Originally from Russia, Abragam and his family emigrated to France in 1925.After being educated at the University of Paris, , he...
(professor, France) : for outstanding achievements in physics of condensed state and methods of research in nuclear physics.
1996
Nikolai Nikolaevich KrasovskyNikolai Nikolaevich Krasovsky
Nikolay Nikolayevich Krasovsky is a prominent Russian mathematician who works in the mathematical theory of control, the theory of dynamical systems, and the theory of differential games...
: for outstanding achievements in the mathematical theory of control and the theory of differential game
Differential game
In game theory, differential games are a group of problems related to the modeling and analysis of conflict in the context of a dynamical system. The problem usually consists of two actors, a pursuer and an evader, with conflicting goals...
s.
Friedrich Hirzebruch
Friedrich Hirzebruch
Friedrich Ernst Peter Hirzebruch is a German mathematician, working in the fields of topology, complex manifolds and algebraic geometry, and a leading figure in his generation.-Life:He was born in Hamm, Westphalia...
(professor, Federal Republic of Germany) : for outstanding achievements in algebraic geometry and algebraic topology.
1997
Boris Sergeyevich SokolovBoris Sergeyevich Sokolov
Boris Sergeyevich Sokolov is a Russian geologist and paleontologist. Sokolov authored reference works on the stratigraphy of Eastern Europe, in particular the fossil coral records, and created the concept of Vendian period, currently recognized as largely overlapping, but not fully equivalent to...
: for outstanding achievements in the studies of the early biosphere of the Earth, the discovery of the ancient Wend geological system and classical works in fossil corals.
Frank Press
Frank Press
Frank Press is an American geophysicist.Born in Brooklyn, New York, Press was science advisor to President Jimmy Carter from1976 to 1980,and president of the U.S. NationalAcademy of Sciences from 1981 to 1993...
(professor, USA) : for outstanding achievements in the physics of solid Earth.
1998
Aleksandr SolzhenitsynAleksandr Solzhenitsyn
Aleksandr Isayevich Solzhenitsyn was aRussian and Soviet novelist, dramatist, and historian. Through his often-suppressed writings, he helped to raise global awareness of the Gulag, the Soviet Union's forced labor camp system – particularly in The Gulag Archipelago and One Day in the Life of...
: for an outstanding contribution into the development of Russian literature, Russian language and Russian history.
Yosikazu Nakamura (professor, Japan) : for an outstanding contribution to the study of Slavistics and the popularization of Russian literature and culture in Japan.
1999
Valentin Lavrentevich Yanin : for achievements in the archaeological studies of medieval Russia.Michael Müller-Wille (professor, Germany): for achievements in the study of foreign relations of early medieval Russia.
2000
Andrei Viktorovich Gaponov-Grekhov : for fundamental works in the fields of electrodynamics, plasma physics and physical electronics.Charles Hard Townes
Charles Hard Townes
Charles Hard Townes is an American Nobel Prize-winning physicist and educator. Townes is known for his work on the theory and application of the maser, on which he got the fundamental patent, and other work in quantum electronics connected with both maser and laser devices. He shared the Nobel...
(professor, United States): for fundamental works in quantum electronics leading to the development of the maser and laser.
2001
Alexander Sergeevich SpirinAlexander Sergeevich Spirin
Alexander Sergeevich Spirin is a Russian biochemist, professor of Moscow State University, Director of Institute of Protein Research Russian Academy of Sciences, Puschino , Moscow Region , Academician of Russian Academy of Sciences...
: for achievements in the study of the structure of nucleic acids and the functions of ribosomes.
Alexander Rich
Alexander Rich
Alexander Rich, MD is a biologist and biophysicist. He is the William Thompson Sedgwick Professor of Biophysics at MIT and Harvard Medical School. Dr. Rich earned both an A.B. and an M.D. from Harvard University. He was a post-doc of Linus Pauling along with James Watson...
(professor, United States) : for achievements in the study of the structure of nucleic acids and the functions of ribosomes.
2002
Olga Aleksandrovna LadyzhenskayaOlga Aleksandrovna Ladyzhenskaya
Olga Aleksandrovna Ladyzhenskaya was a Soviet and Russian mathematician. She was known for her work on partial differential equations and fluid dynamics...
: for outstanding achievements in mathematics.
Lennart Carleson
Lennart Carleson
Lennart Axel Edvard Carleson is a Swedish mathematician, known as a leader in the field of harmonic analysis.-Life:He was a student of Arne Beurling and received his Ph.D. from Uppsala University in 1950...
(professor, Sweden) : for outstanding achievements in mathematics.
2003
Evgeny ChazovYevgeniy Chazov
Yevgeniy Ivanovich Chazov is a prominent physician of the Soviet Union and Russia, specializing in cardiology, Chief of the Fourth Directorate of the Ministry of Health of the USSR, Academician of the Russian Academy of Sciences and Russian Academy of Medical Sciences, a recipient of numerous...
: for outstanding achievements in cardiology.
Michael E. DeBakey
Michael E. DeBakey
Michael Elias DeBakey was a world-renowned Lebanese-American cardiac surgeon, innovator, scientist, medical educator, and international medical statesman...
(professor, United States) : for outstanding achievements in cardiology.
2004
Gury Ivanovich MarchukGury Marchuk
Gury Ivanovich Marchuk is a prominent Soviet/Russian scientist in the fields of computational mathematics, and physics of atmosphere. Academician ; the President of the USSR Academy of Sciences in 1986–1991...
: for his outstanding contribution to the creation of new models and methods of solving problems of nuclear-reactor physics, atmosphere and ocean physics.
Edward N. Lorenz (professor, United States): for major achievements in developing the theory of general circulation of the atmosphere and the theory of chaotic attractors of dissipative systems.
2005
Yuri Andreevich OssipyanYuri Osipyan
Yuri Andreevich Osipyan was a Soviet, Russian physicist who worked in the field of solid state physics.Osipyan was born in Moscow and graduated from Georgy Kurdyumov's class at Moscow Institute of Steel and Alloys in 1955...
: for outstanding achievements in solid state physics.
Peter Hirsch
Peter Hirsch
Sir Peter Bernhard Hirsch FRS is a leading figure in British materials science who has made fundamental contributions to the application of transmission electron microscopy to metals....
(professor, Great Britain) : for outstanding achievements in solid state physics.
2006
Nikolay Pavlovich Laverov : for outstanding achievements in geology and geophysics.Rodney Charles Ewing (professor, United States) : for his research on the nuclear fuel cycle and nuclear waste management.
2007
Andrey Anatolyevich Zaliznyak : for outstanding achievements in research in linguistics.Simon Franklin
Simon Franklin
Simon Franklin is Professor of Slavonic Studies at the University of Cambridge, UK. He is a Fellow of Clare College.In 2007 he was awarded the Lomonosov Gold Medal by the Russian Academy of Sciences for outstanding achievements in research in Russian history and culture.-Selected bibliography:*...
(professor, Great Britain) : for outstanding achievements in research in Russian history and culture.
2008
Evgenii Maksimovich PrimakovYevgeny Primakov
Yevgeny Maksimovich Primakov is a Russian politician and diplomat. During his long career, he served as the Russian Foreign Minister, Prime Minister of Russia, Speaker of the Soviet of the Union of the Supreme Soviet of the Soviet Union, and chief of intelligence service...
: for outstanding contributions in the development of the social sciences.
Hélène Carrère d’Encausse (professor, France) : for outstanding achievements in research of political and social processes in soviet and postsoviet periods of Russia.
2009
Vadim Tikhonovich Ivanov : for outstanding contributions in the development of bioorganic chemistryBioorganic chemistry
Bioorganic chemistry is a rapidly growing scientific discipline that combines organic chemistry and biochemistry. While biochemistry aims at understanding biological processes using chemistry, bioorganic chemistry attempts to expand organic-chemical researches toward biology...
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Ryōji Noyori
Ryoji Noyori
is a Japanese chemist. He won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 2001. Noyori shared half of the prize with William S. Knowles for the study of chirally catalyzed hydrogenations; the second half of the Prize went to K. Barry Sharpless for his study in chirally catalyzed oxidation reactions...
(professor, Japan): for outstanding contributions in the development of organic chemistry
Organic chemistry
Organic chemistry is a subdiscipline within chemistry involving the scientific study of the structure, properties, composition, reactions, and preparation of carbon-based compounds, hydrocarbons, and their derivatives...
and catalytic asymmetric synthesis.
2010
Spartak Timofeevich Belyaev : for outstanding contributions in physics.Gerardus 't Hooft
Gerardus 't Hooft
Gerardus 't Hooft is a Dutch theoretical physicist and professor at Utrecht University, the Netherlands. He shared the 1999 Nobel Prize in Physics with his thesis advisor Martinus J. G...
(professor, Netherlands): for outstanding contributions in physics.