The Lomonosov Gold Medal (russian: Большая золотая медаль имени М. В. Ломоносова ''Bol'shaya zolotaya medal' imeni M. V. Lomonosova''), named after

Russia Russia (, , ), or the Russian Federation, is a List of transcontinental countries, transcontinental country spanning Eastern Europe and North Asia, Northern Asia. It is the List of countries and dependencies by area, largest country in the ...

n scientist and

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Mikhail Lomonosov, is awarded each year since 1959 for outstanding achievements in the natural sciences and the humanities by the

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Academy of Sciences and later 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 ...

(RAS). Since 1967, two medals are awarded annually: one to a Russian and one to a foreign scientist. It is the Academy's highest accolade.

Recipients of Lomonosov Gold Medal

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1959

Pyotr Leonidovich Kapitsa Pyotr Leonidovich Kapitsa or Peter Kapitza (Russian: Пётр Леонидович Капица, Romanian: Petre Capița ( – 8 April 1984) was a leading Soviet physicist and Nobel laureate, best known for his work in low-temperature physic ...

: cumulatively, for works in physics of low temperatures.

1961

* Aleksandr Nikolaevich Nesmeyanov: accumulatively for works in chemistry.

1963

* 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 was a Japanese theoretical physicist and the first Japanese Nobel laureate for his prediction of the pi meson, or pion. Biography He was born as Hideki Ogawa in Tokyo and grew up in Kyoto with two older brothers, two older sisters, and two yo ...

(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.

1964

* Sir

Howard Walter Florey Howard Walter Florey, Baron Florey (24 September 189821 February 1968) was an Australian pharmacologist and pathologist who shared the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1945 with Sir Ernst Chain and Sir Alexander Fleming for his role in ...

(professor, president of the Royal Society of Great Britain): for an outstanding contribution in the development of medicine.

1965

* Nikolai Vasilevich Belov: accumulatively for works in crystallography.

1967

Igor Yevgenyevich Tamm Igor Yevgenyevich Tamm ( rus, И́горь Евге́ньевич Тамм , p=ˈiɡərʲ jɪvˈɡʲenʲjɪvitɕ ˈtam , a=Ru-Igor Yevgenyevich Tamm.ogg; 8 July 1895 – 12 April 1971) was a Soviet physicist who received the 1958 Nobel Prize in ...

: for outstanding achievements in the theory of elementary particles and other domain of theoretical physics *

Cecil Frank Powell Cecil Frank Powell, FRS (5 December 1903 – 9 August 1969) was a British physicist, and Nobel Prize in Physics laureate for heading the team that developed the photographic method of studying nuclear processes and for the resulting discovery of ...

(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 (26 February 1903 – 2 May 1979) was an Italian chemical engineer and Nobel laureate. He won a Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1963 with Karl Ziegler for work on high polymers. He also received a Lomonosov Gold Medal in 1969. Biograph ...

(professor, Italy): for outstanding achievements in the chemistry of polymers

1970

Ivan Matveevich Vinogradov Ivan Matveevich Vinogradov ( rus, Ива́н Матве́евич Виногра́дов, p=ɪˈvan mɐtˈvʲejɪvʲɪtɕ vʲɪnɐˈɡradəf, a=Ru-Ivan_Matveyevich_Vinogradov.ogg; 14 September 1891 – 20 March 1983) was a Soviet mathematician, ...

: for outstanding studies in mathematics. *

Arnaud Denjoy Arnaud Denjoy (; 5 January 1884 – 21 January 1974) was a French mathematician. Biography Denjoy was born in Auch, Gers. His contributions include work in harmonic analysis and differential equations. Henstock–Kurzweil integral, His integral ...

(member of the Académie française): for outstanding achievements in mathematics.

1971

* Viktor Amazaspovich Ambartsumian: for outstanding achievements in astronomy and astrophysics. *

Hannes Alfvén Hannes Olof Gösta Alfvén (; 30 May 1908 – 2 April 1995) was a Swedish electrical engineer, plasma physicist and winner of the 1970 Nobel Prize in Physics for his work on magnetohydrodynamics (MHD). He described the class of MHD waves now ...

(professor, member of the Royal Academy of Sciences in Stockholm, Sweden): for outstanding achievements in physics of plasma and astrophysics.

1972

Nikoloz Muskhelishvili Nikoloz (Niko) Muskhelishvili ( ka, ნიკოლოზ (ნიკო) მუსხელიშვილი ; – 15 July 1976) was a renowned Soviet Georgian mathematician, physicist and engineer who was one of the founders and first President ...

: for outstanding achievements in mathematics and mechanics. *

Max Steenbeck Max Christian Theodor Steenbeck (21 March 1904 – 15 December 1981) 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 Uni ...

(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 Alexander Pavlovich Vinogradov (russian: Алекса́ндр Па́влович Виногра́дов) (August 21, 1895 in Petretsovo, Yaroslavl Oblast – November 16, 1975 in Moscow) was a Soviet geochemist, academician (1953), and Hero of ...

: for outstanding achievements in geochemistry. *

Vladimír Zoubek Vladimír Zoubek (21 September 1903 in Heřmanův Městec – 24 May 1995 in Prague) was a Czech Czech may refer to: * Anything from or related to the Czech Republic, a country in Europe ** Czech language ** Czechs, the people of the area ** Czech ...

(full member of the Czechoslovak Academy of Sciences): for outstanding achievements in geology.

1974

Aleksandr Ivanovich Tselikov Alexander Ivanovich Tselikov (russian: Александр Иванович Це́ликов; 20 April 1904, in Moscow – 28 October 1984, in Moscow) was a Soviet metallurgist, industrial machines designer, and Hero of Socialist Labor (1964, 198 ...

: for outstanding achievements in metallurgy and metal technology. *

Angel Balevski Angel Balevski ( bg, Ангел Балевски) (4 March 1910 – 15 September 1997) was a Bulgarian inventor and engineer. Academician Balevski was president of the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences (1968-1988), Co-president of the International A ...

(full member of the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences): for outstanding achievements in metallurgy and metal technology.

1975

Mstislav Vsevolodovich Keldysh Mstislav Vsevolodovich Keldysh (russian: Мстисла́в Все́володович Ке́лдыш; – 24 June 1978) was a Soviet mathematician who worked as an engineer in the Soviet space program. He was the academician of the Academy o ...

: for outstanding achievements in mathematics, mechanics and space research. * (full member of the Académie française): for outstanding achievements in mechanics and its applications.

1976

Semyon Isaakovich Volfkovich Semyon Isaakovich Volfkovich (russian: Семён Исаакович Вольфкович) (October 23, 1896 – November 12, 1980) was a Soviet chemist, technologist and member of the Soviet Academy of Sciences (1946). In 1941 he was awarded th ...

: 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 Hermann Klare (12 May 1909 – 22 August 2003) was a chemistry academic who played a prominent role in scientific administration and research in the German Democratic Republic (GDR). Klare held professorships at the Technical University Leu ...

(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 Oparin: for outstanding achievements in biochemistry. *

Béla Szőkefalvi-Nagy Béla Szőkefalvi-Nagy (29 July 1913, Kolozsvár – 21 December 1998, Szeged) was a Hungarian mathematician. His father, Gyula Szőkefalvi-Nagy was also a famed mathematician. Szőkefalvi-Nagy collaborated with Alfréd Haar and Frigyes Riesz, ...

(full member of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences): for outstanding achievements in mathematics.

1980

Boris Yevgenevich Paton Borys Yevhenovych Paton ( ua, Бори́с Євге́нович Пато́н, russian: Борис Евгеньевич Патон; 27 November 1918 – 19 August 2020

: 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

radiophysics Radiophysics (also modern writing "radio physics") is a branch of physics focused on the theoretical and experimental study of certain kinds of radiation, its emission, propagation and interaction with matter. The term is used in the following majo ...

radio engineering Broadcast engineering is the field of electrical engineering, and now to some extent computer engineering and information technology, which deals with radio and television broadcasting. Audio engineering and RF engineering are also essential ...

and

electronics The field of electronics is a branch of physics and electrical engineering that deals with the emission, behaviour and effects of electrons using electronic devices. Electronics uses active devices to control electron flow by amplification ...

. *

Pavle Savić Pavle Savić ( sr-cyr, Павле Савић; 10 January 1909 – 30 May 1994) was a Serbian physicist and chemist. In his early years, he worked in Serbia as well as France, and became one of the pioneers in the research of nuclear fission. He wa ...

(full member of the Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts, Socialist Federative Republic of Yugoslavia): for outstanding achievements in chemistry and physics.

1982

Julii Borisovich Khariton Yulii Borisovich Khariton (Russian: Юлий Борисович Харитон, 27 February 1904 – 19 December 1996), also known as YuB, , was a Russian physicist who was a leading scientist in the former Soviet Union's program of nuclear wea ...

: for outstanding achievements in physics. *

Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin Dorothy Mary Crowfoot Hodgkin (née Crowfoot; 12 May 1910 – 29 July 1994) was a Nobel Prize-winning British chemist who advanced the technique of X-ray crystallography to determine the structure of biomolecules, which became essential fo ...

(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 Mohammad Abdus Salam Salam adopted the forename "Mohammad" in 1974 in response to the anti-Ahmadiyya decrees in Pakistan, similarly he grew his beard. (; ; 29 January 192621 November 1996) was a Punjabi Pakistani theoretical physicist and a ...

(professor, Pakistan): for outstanding achievements in physics.

1984

* Nikolai Nikolaevich Bogolyubov: for outstanding achievements in mathematics and theoretical physics. *

Rudolf Mössbauer Rudolf Ludwig Mössbauer (German spelling: ''Mößbauer''; ; 31 January 1929 – 14 September 2011) was a German physicist best known for his 1957 discovery of ''recoilless nuclear resonance fluorescence'' for which he was awarded the 1961 Nobe ...

(professor, Federal Republic of Germany): for outstanding achievements in physics.

1985

* Mikhail Aleksandrovich Sadovsky (Soviet academician): for outstanding achievements in geology and geophysics. *

Guillermo Haro Guillermo Haro Barraza (; 21 March 1913 – 26 April 1988) was a Mexican astronomer. Through his own astronomical research and the formation of new institutions, Haro was influential in the development of modern observational astronomy in M ...

(professor, Mexico): for outstanding achievements in astrophysics.

1986

* Svyatoslav Nikolaevich Fyodorov: for outstanding achievements in ophthalmology and eye microsurgery. * (academician, Chairman of the Czechoslovak Academy of Sciences): for outstanding achievements in biochemistry.

1987

Aleksandr Mikhailovich Prokhorov Alexander Mikhailovich Prokhorov (born Alexander Michael Prochoroff, russian: Алекса́ндр Миха́йлович Про́хоров; 11 July 1916 – 8 January 2002) was an Australian-born Soviet-Russian physicist known ...

: for outstanding achievements in physics. *

John Bardeen John Bardeen (; May 23, 1908 – January 30, 1991) was an American physicist and engineer. He is the only person to be awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics twice: first in 1956 with William Shockley and Walter Brattain for the invention of the tran ...

(professor, United States): for outstanding achievements in physics.

1988

* Sergei Lvovich Sobolev (posthumously): for outstanding achievements in mathematics. *

Jean Leray Jean Leray (; 7 November 1906 – 10 November 1998) was a French mathematician, who worked on both partial differential equations and algebraic topology. Life and career He was born in Chantenay-sur-Loire (today part of Nantes). He studied at Éc ...

(professor, France): for outstanding achievements in mathematics.

1989

* Nikolai Gennadievich Basov: for outstanding achievements in physics. *

Hans Bethe Hans Albrecht Bethe (; July 2, 1906 – March 6, 2005) was a German-American theoretical physicist who made major contributions to nuclear physics, astrophysics, quantum electrodynamics, and solid-state physics, and who won the 1967 Nobel ...

(professor, United States): for outstanding achievements in physics.

1993

* Dmitri Sergeevich Likhachev: for outstanding achievements in the humanities. *

John Kenneth Galbraith John Kenneth Galbraith (October 15, 1908 – April 29, 2006), also known as Ken Galbraith, was a Canadian-American economist, diplomat, public official, and intellectual. His books on economic topics were bestsellers from the 1950s through t ...

(professor, United States): 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 Dewey Watson (born April 6, 1928) is an American molecular biologist, geneticist, and zoologist. In 1953, he co-authored with Francis Crick the academic paper proposing the double helix structure of the DNA molecule. Watson, Crick and ...

(professor, United States): for outstanding achievements in molecular biology.

1995

Vitaly Lazarevich Ginzburg Vitaly Lazarevich Ginzburg, Fellow of the Royal Society, ForMemRS (russian: Вита́лий Ла́заревич Ги́нзбург, link=no; 4 October 1916 – 8 November 2009) was a Russian people, Russian Physics, physicist who was honored w ...

: for outstanding achievements in theoretical physics and astrophysics. *

Anatole Abragam Anatole Abragam (15 December 1914 – 8 June 2011) was a French physicist who wrote ''The Principles of Nuclear Magnetism'' and made significant contributions to the field of nuclear magnetic resonance. Originally from Griva, Courland Govern ...

(professor, France): for outstanding achievements in physics of condensed state and methods of research in nuclear physics.

1996

* Nikolai Nikolaevich Krasovsky: for outstanding achievements in the mathematical theory of control and the theory of

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. More specifically, a state variable or variables evolve over time according to a differential equatio ...

s. *

Friedrich Hirzebruch Friedrich Ernst Peter Hirzebruch ForMemRS (17 October 1927 – 27 May 2012) was a German mathematician, working in the fields of topology, complex manifolds and algebraic geometry, and a leading figure in his generation. He has been described as ...

(professor, Federal Republic of Germany): for outstanding achievements in algebraic geometry and algebraic topology.

1997

Boris Sergeyevich Sokolov Boris Sergeyevich Sokolov (russian: Борис Серге́евич Соколов) (April 9, 1914 – September 2, 2013) was a Russian geologist and paleontologist. Sokolov authored reference works on the stratigraphy of Eastern Europe, in parti ...

: 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 (December 4, 1924 – January 29, 2020) was an American geophysicist. He was an advisor to four U.S. presidents, and later served two consecutive terms as president of the U.S. National Academy of Sciences (1981–1993). He was the au ...

(professor, United States): for outstanding achievements in the physics of solid Earth.

1998

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Aleksandr Isayevich Solzhenitsyn. (11 December 1918 – 3 August 2008) was a Russian novelist. One of the most famous Soviet dissidents, Solzhenitsyn was an outspoken critic of communism and helped to raise global awareness of political repres ...

: 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 (July 28, 1915 – January 27, 2015) was an American physicist. Townes worked on the theory and application of the maser, for which he obtained the fundamental patent, and other work in quantum electronics associated wi ...

(professor, United States): for fundamental works in quantum electronics leading to the development of the maser and laser.

2001

* Alexander Sergeevich Spirin: for achievements in the study of the structure of nucleic acids and the functions of ribosomes. *

Alexander Rich Alexander Rich (15 November 1924 – 27 April 2015) was an American biologist and biophysicist. He was the William Thompson Sedgwick Professor of Biophysics at MIT (since 1958) and Harvard Medical School. Rich earned an A.B. ('' magna cum l ...

(professor, United States): for achievements in the study of the structure of nucleic acids and the functions of ribosomes.

2002

Olga Aleksandrovna Ladyzhenskaya Olga Aleksandrovna Ladyzhenskaya (russian: Óльга Алекса́ндровна Лады́женская, link=no, p=ˈolʲɡə ɐlʲɪˈksandrəvnə ɫɐˈdɨʐɨnskəɪ̯ə, a=Ru-Olga Aleksandrovna Ladyzhenskaya.wav; 7 March 1922 – 12 Jan ...

: for outstanding achievements in mathematics. *

Lennart Carleson Lennart Axel Edvard Carleson (born 18 March 1928) is a Swedish mathematician, known as a leader in the field of harmonic analysis. One of his most noted accomplishments is his proof of Lusin's conjecture. He was awarded the Abel Prize in 2006 fo ...

(professor, Sweden): for outstanding achievements in mathematics.

2003

* Evgeny Chazov: for outstanding achievements in cardiology. * Michael E. DeBakey (professor, United States): for outstanding achievements in cardiology.

2004

* Gury Ivanovich Marchuk: 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 Ossipyan: for outstanding achievements in solid state physics. *

Peter Hirsch Sir Peter Bernhard Hirsch HonFRMS FRS (born 16 January 1925) is a figure in British materials science who has made fundamental contributions to the application of transmission electron microscopy to metals. Hirsch attended Sloane Grammar S ...

(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 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 R ...

(professor, Great Britain): for outstanding achievements in research in Russian history and culture.

2008

* Evgenii Maksimovich Primakov: 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 chemistry Bioorganic chemistry is a scientific discipline that combines organic chemistry and biochemistry. It is that branch of life science that deals with the study of biological processes using chemical methods. Protein and enzyme function are examples of ...

. *

Ryōji Noyori is a Japanese chemist. He won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 2001, Noyori shared a 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 st ...

(professor, Japan): for outstanding contributions in the development of

organic chemistry Organic chemistry is a subdiscipline within chemistry involving the scientific study of the structure, properties, and reactions of organic compounds and organic materials, i.e., matter in its various forms that contain carbon atoms.Clayden, J.; ...

and catalytic asymmetric synthesis.

2010

* Spartak Timofeevich Belyaev: for outstanding contributions in physics. *

Gerard 't Hooft Gerardus (Gerard) 't Hooft (; born July 5, 1946) 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. Veltman "for elucidating th ...

(professor, Netherlands): for outstanding contributions in physics.

2011

Vladimir Alexandrovich Tartakovsky 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 Ukr ...

: for outstanding contributions in chemistry. *

Roald Hoffmann Roald Hoffmann (born Roald Safran; July 18, 1937) is a Polish-American theoretical chemist who won the 1981 Nobel Prize in Chemistry. He has also published plays and poetry. He is the Frank H. T. Rhodes Professor of Humane Letters, Emeritus, at ...

(professor, United States): for outstanding contributions in chemistry.

2012

* Gleb Vsevolodovich Dobrovolsky: for outstanding contribution in the field of soil science. * Richard Warren Arnold (professor, United States): for his outstanding contribution to the development of theoretical and applied soil science and modeling the behavior of soils in different landscapes of the world.

2013

* Ludvig Dmitrievich Faddeev: for outstanding contribution to quantum field theory and the theory of elementary particles. * Peter David Lax (professor, United States): for outstanding contribution to the theory of hydrodynamic

solitons In mathematics and physics, a soliton or solitary wave is a self-reinforcing wave packet that maintains its shape while it propagates at a constant velocity. Solitons are caused by a cancellation of nonlinear and dispersive effects in the mediu ...

2014

* Anatoly Derevyanko: for his outstanding contribution to the development of a new fundamental scientific concept formation of modern human physical type and its culture. *

Svante Pääbo Svante Pääbo (; born 20 April 1955) is a Swedish geneticist who specialises in the field of evolutionary genetics. As one of the founders of paleogenetics, he has worked extensively on the Neanderthal genome. In 1997, he became founding dire ...

(professor, Sweden): for outstanding achievements in the field of archeology and paleogenetics.

2015

* Leonid Veniaminovich Keldysh: for outstanding contributions to the physics of tunnel phenomena, including the tunnel effects in semiconductors. *

Paul Corkum Paul Bruce Corkum (born October 30, 1943) is a Canadian physicist specializing in attosecond physics and laser science., as published in '' Physics in Canada'', 65(2) 58. He holds a joint University of Ottawa– NRC chair in Attosecond Photoni ...

(professor, Canada): for outstanding contribution in ultrafast physics, including attosecond range, and interferometry processes of electron wave functions in atoms and molecules with unprecedented spatial and temporal resolution.

2016

* Dmitrii Knorre: for his outstanding contribution in the field of nucleic acid chemistry, affinity modification of biopolymers, becoming the most important areas of pharmacology - therapeutic nucleic acids and the development of gene therapy techniques. *

Sidney Altman Sidney Altman (May 7, 1939 – April 5, 2022) was a Canadian-American molecular biologist, who was the Sterling Professor of Molecular, Cellular, and Developmental Biology and Chemistry at Yale University. In 1989, he shared the Nobel Prize in ...

(Canada and United States): for his outstanding contribution in the field of biochemistry of nucleic acids, the discovery of the catalytic activity of the nucleic acids and the creation of new biologically active substances.

2017

* Yuri Tsolakovich Oganesyan: for fundamental research in the field of interaction of complex nuclei and experimental confirmation of the hypothesis of the existence of "stability islands" of superheavy elements.
Björn Jonson
(professor, Sweden): for work of a fundamental nature, which are of fundamental importance for the study of the nuclear structure and nuclear stability of exotic lightest nuclei at the boundaries of nucleon stability.

2018

Joseph Isaevich Gitelzon Josef (Joseph or Iosif) Isaevich Gitelson (russian: Ио́сиф Иса́евич Гительзо́н); (6 July 1928 – 25 September 2022) was a Soviet and Russian biophysicist. PhD in biology (1955), DrSc in medicine (1961), Professor, Memb ...

: for the justification and development of the ecological direction of biophysics, which has achieved a number of outstanding fundamental and practical results, in particular in marine and laboratory studies of bioluminescence. *

Martin Chalfie Martin Lee Chalfie (born January 15, 1947) is an American scientist. He is University Professor at Columbia University. He shared the 2008 Nobel Prize in Chemistry along with Osamu Shimomura and Roger Y. Tsien "for the discovery and developmen ...

(professor, United States): for developing new methods for bioluminescent analysis using GFP luminescent protein.

2019

* Georgy Sergeyevich Golitsyn: for outstanding contribution to the study of the physics of the earth's atmosphere and planets and the development of the theory of climate and its changes. * Paul Jozef Crutzen (professor, Netherlands): for outstanding contribution to chemistry atmosphere and assessment of the role of biogeochemical cycles in the climate formation.

2020

* Sergey Petrovich Novikov: for a leading role in the revival of modern topology in our country, solving fundamental problems of topology, the theory of nonlinear waves, quantum mechanics and field theory. *

John Willard Milnor John Willard Milnor (born February 20, 1931) is an American mathematician known for his work in differential topology, algebraic K-theory and low-dimensional holomorphic dynamical systems. Milnor is a distinguished professor at Stony Brook U ...

(professor, United States): for the discovery of non-standard smooth structures on multidimensional spheres, solving fundamental problems of topology and the theory of dynamical systems.

2021

* Georgy Pavlovich Georgiev: for classical works on the study of the structure and expression of the genome of higher eukaryotes. * Richard John Roberts (professor, Great Britain): for his great contribution to the study of pro- and eukaryotic genomes, RNA splicing, gene identification restriction enzymes and methylases.Lomonosov Gold Medal 2021
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