The Pomeranchuk Prize is an international award for theoretical physics, awarded annually since 1998 by the Institute for Theoretical and Experimental Physics (ITEP) from Moscow. It is named after Russian physicist

Isaak Yakovlevich Pomeranchuk Isaak Yakovlevich Pomeranchuk (russian: Исаа́к Я́ковлевич Померанчу́к (Polish spelling: Isaak Jakowliewicz Pomieranczuk); 20 May 1913, Warsaw, Russian Empire – 14 December 1966, Moscow, USSR) was a Soviet physicist ...

, who together with Landau established the Theoretical Physics Department of the Institute.

Laureates

* 2020

Sergio Ferrara Sergio Ferrara (born May 2, 1945) is an Italian physicist working on theoretical physics of elementary particles and mathematical physics. He is renowned for the discovery of theories introducing supersymmetry as a symmetry of elementary particles ...

and Mikhail Andrejewitsch Vasiliev * 2019

Roger Penrose Sir Roger Penrose (born 8 August 1931) is an English mathematician, mathematical physicist, philosopher of science and Nobel Laureate in Physics. He is Emeritus Rouse Ball Professor of Mathematics in the University of Oxford, an emeritus fello ...

and

Vladimir S. Popov Vladimir may refer to: Names * Vladimir (name) for the Bulgarian, Croatian, Czech, Macedonian, Romanian, Russian, Serbian, Slovak and Slovenian spellings of a Slavic name * Uladzimir for the Belarusian version of the name * Volodymyr for the Ukra ...

* 2018 Giorgio Parisi and

Lev Pitaevskii Lev Petrovich Pitaevskii (russian: Лев Петро́вич Пита́евский ; 18 January 1933 – 23 August 2022) was a Russian theoretical physicist, who made contributions to the theory of quantum mechanics, electrodynamics, low-temper ...

* 2017

Igor Klebanov Igor R. Klebanov (russian: И́горь Ромáнович Клеба́нов; uk, Ігор Романович Клєбанов; born March 29, 1962) is an American theoretical physicist. Since 1989, he has been a faculty member at Princeton Un ...

and

Juri Moissejewitsch Kagan Juri, JURI or Jüri may refer to: Law * Dative singular case of Latin Jus *Committee on Legal Affairs, committee of the European Parliament, known as JURI Places *Juri Upazila, subdistrict (''upazila'') in Maulvibazar District, Sylhet Division, ...

* 2016 Curtis J. Callan and Yuri A. Simonov * 2015 Stanley J. Brodsky and Victor Fadin * 2014 Leonid Keldysh and Alexander Zamolodchikov * 2013 Mikhail Shifman and

Andrei Slavnov Andrei Alekseevich Slavnov (russian: Андрей Алексеевич Славнов; 22 December 1939 – 25 August 2022) was a Russian theoretical physicist, known for Slavnov–Taylor identities. Life and career Slavnov was born in Moscow on 2 ...

* 2012 Juan Martín Maldacena and

Spartak Belyaev Spartak Timofeyevich Belyaev (October 27, 1923 – January 5, 2017) was a Soviet and Russian theoretical physicist who was awarded a Lomonosov Gold Medal. Biography Belyaev was born on October 27, 1923 in Moscow, Russia. When World War II began, h ...

* 2011

Heinrich Leutwyler Heinrich Leutwyler (born Oct 12, 1938) is a Swiss theoretical physicist, with interests in elementary particle physics, the theory of strong interactions, and quantum field theory.

and Semyon Gershtein * 2010 André Martin and

Valentine Zakharov A valentine is a card or gift given on Valentine's Day, or one's sweetheart. Valentine or Valentines may also refer to: People and fictional characters * Valentine (name), a given name and a surname, including a list of people and fictional char ...

* 2009 Nicola Cabibbo and

Boris Ioffe Boris may refer to: People * Boris (given name), a male given name *:''See'': List of people with given name Boris * Boris (surname) * Boris I of Bulgaria (died 907), the first Christian ruler of the First Bulgarian Empire, canonized after his ...

* 2008

Leonard Susskind Leonard Susskind (; born June 16, 1940)his 60th birthday was celebrated with a special symposium at Stanford University.in Geoffrey West's introduction, he gives Suskind's current age as 74 and says his birthday was recent. is an American physicis ...

and Lev Okun * 2007 Alexander Belavin and Yoichiro Nambu * 2006 Vadim Kuzmin and Howard Georgi * 2005

Iosif Khriplovich Iosif Benzionovich Khriplovich () (born 1937) is a Russian theoretical physicist Theoretical physics is a branch of physics that employs mathematical models and abstractions of physical objects and systems to rationalize, explain and predict ...

and Arkady Vainshtein * 2004

Alexander F. Andreev Alexander Fyodorovich Andreev (russian: Александр Фёдорович Андреев, born 1939) is a Russian theoretical physicist best known for explaining the eponymous Andreev reflection. Andreev was educated at the Moscow Institute ...

and Alexander Polyakov * 2003

Valery Rubakov Valery Anatolyevich Rubakov (russian: Валерий Анатольевич Рубаков, 16 February 1955 – 18 October 2022) was a Russian theoretical physicist. His scientific interests included quantum field theory, elementary particle p ...

and Freeman Dyson * 2002 Ludvig Faddeev and

Bryce Seligman DeWitt Bryce Seligman DeWitt (January 8, 1923 – September 23, 2004), was an American theoretical physicist noted for his work in gravitation and quantum field theory. Life He was born Carl Bryce Seligman, but he and his three brothers, including ...

* 2001

Lev Lipatov Lev Nikolaevich Lipatov (russian: Лев Никола́евич Липа́тов; 2 May 1940, Leningrad – 4 September 2017, Dubna) was a Russian physicist, well known for his contributions to nuclear physics and particle physics. He has been th ...

and Tullio Regge * 2000

Evgenii Feinberg Evgenii L'vovich Feinberg (27 June 1912 – 10 December 2005) was a Soviet physicist, recognized for his contributions to theoretical physics. He was the son of a physician, born in Baku, moving to Moscow in 1918 where he graduated from Moscow Sta ...

and James Daniel Bjorken * 1999

Karen Ter-Martirosian Karen Avetovich Ter-Martirosyan (russian: Карен Аветикович Тер-Мартиросян; 28 September 1922 – 19 November 2005) was a Soviet and Russian theoretical physicist of Armenian descent. He is known for his contributions to ...

and

Gabriele Veneziano Gabriele Veneziano (; ; born 7 September 1942) is an Italian theoretical physicist widely considered the father of string theory. He has conducted most of his scientific activities at CERN in Geneva, Switzerland, and held the Chair of Elementa ...

* 1998 Aleksander Ilyich Akhiezer and

Sidney Drell Sidney David Drell (September 13, 1926 – December 21, 2016) was an American theoretical physicist and arms control expert. At the time of his death, he was professor emeritus at the Stanford Linear Accelerator Center (SLAC) and senior fel ...

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* Physics awards Awards established in 1998 Russian science and technology awards {{sci-award-stub

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