The Leonhard Euler Gold Medal (Золотая медаль имени Леонарда Эйлера) is a medal named after the Swiss, German, and Russian mathematician

Leonhard Euler Leonhard Euler ( , ; 15 April 170718 September 1783) was a Swiss mathematician, physicist, astronomer, geographer, logician and engineer who founded the studies of graph theory and topology and made pioneering and influential discoveries in ma ...

, awarded by the Отделением математических наук (Branch of Mathematical Sciences of the

Russian Academy of Sciences The Russian Academy of Sciences (RAS; russian: Росси́йская акаде́мия нау́к (РАН) ''Rossíyskaya akadémiya naúk'') consists of the national academy of Russia; a network of scientific research institutes from across t ...

) for outstanding results in mathematics and physics. The medal was awarded once in 1957 to two scientists and since 1991 has been awarded every five years.

Laureates

* 1957 —

Igor Kurchatov Igor Vasil'evich Kurchatov (russian: Игорь Васильевич Курчатов; 12 January 1903 – 7 February 1960), was a Soviet physicist who played a central role in organizing and directing the former Soviet program of nuclear weapo ...

{{cite web, url=http://sm.evg-rumjantsev.ru/voen-ruk2/kurchatov-iv.html, title=И. В. Курчатов (I. V. Kurchatov), website=Мартиролог "Астрономы и космофизики" (Martyrology "Astronomers and Cosmophysicists"), publisher=Космический мемориал (Space Memorial) and Felix Frankl for outstanding results in mathematics and physics * 1991 —

Aleksandr Danilovich Aleksandrov Aleksandr Danilovich Aleksandrov (russian: Алекса́ндр Дани́лович Алекса́ндров, alternative transliterations: ''Alexandr'' or ''Alexander'' (first name), and ''Alexandrov'' (last name)) (4 August 1912 – 27 July 19 ...

for fundamental contributions to the development of mathematics * 1997 —

Yury Osipov Yury Sergeyevich Osipov (russian: Ю́рий Серге́евич О́сипов; born 7 July 1936) is a Soviet and Russian mathematician. He was elected a full member of the Academy of Sciences of the USSR in 1987 and was a president of its succ ...

for outstanding results in mathematics and physics * 2002 — Ludvig Faddeev for outstanding results in mathematics and physics * 2007 —

Valery Vasilevich Kozlov Valery Vasilevich Kozlov (Валерий Васильевич Козлов, born 1 January 1950 in Ryazan Oblast) is a Russian mathematician and mathematical physicist. Education and career Kozlov studied from 1967 at the Moscow State University ...

for a series of papers on nonlinear Hamiltonian systems of differential equations * 2012 — Sergei Novikov for his deep contribution to the application of topological methods in quantum physics * 2017 —

Igor Shafarevich Igor Rostislavovich Shafarevich (russian: И́горь Ростисла́вович Шафаре́вич; 3 June 1923 – 19 February 2017) was a Soviet and Russian mathematician who contributed to algebraic number theory and algebraic geometry. ...

for outstanding contributions to number theory and algebraic geometry

References

Academic awards Leonhard Euler Awards established in 1957 Science and technology in Russia Science and technology awards Russian science and technology awards Russian Academy of Sciences 1957 establishments in Russia