The Lomonosov Gold Medal, named after Russian scientist and polymathMikhail 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.
Hannes AlfvénHannes Olof Gosta Alfven ( May 30, 1908; Norrkoping, Sweden April 2, 1995; Djursholm, Sweden) was a Swedish electrical power engineer. Some considered him an astrophysicist. Education Alfven received a PhD from the University of Uppsala in 1934. His thesi (professor, member of the Royal Academy of Sciences in Stockholm, Sweden)
for outstanding achievements in physics of plasma and astrophysics.
Viktor Amazaspovich AmbartsumianViktor Amazaspovich Ambartsumian ( in Armenian, in Russian) ( September 18 1908 ( Julian calendar: September 5) August 12 1996) was an Armenian-Russian astronomer. His surname is sometimes given as Ambarzumian or Ambarzumyan or Ambarzumjan and his first n
for outstanding achievements in astronomy and astrophysics.
1.10 1972
Niko MuskhelishviliNiko Muskhelishvili ( February 16, 1891 July 16, 1976) was a notable Georgian mathematician, one of the founders and first President ( 1941- 1972) of the Georgian Academy of Sciences (GAS), Doctor of Physical and Mathematical Sciences ( 1934), Professor (
for outstanding achievements in mathematics and mechanics.
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.
Vladimir Zoubek (full member of the Czechoslovak Academy of Sciences)
for outstanding achievements in geology.
1.12 1974
Angel Tonchev Balevski (full member of the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences)
for outstanding achievements in metallurgy and metal technology.
Aleksandr Ivanovich Tselikov
for outstanding achievements in metallurgy and metal technology.
1.13 1975
Mstislav Vsevolodovich Keldysh
for outstanding achievements in mathematics, mechanics and space research.
Maurice Roy (full member of the Academie Francaise)
for outstanding achievements in mechanics and its applications.
1.14 1976
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.
Semyon Isaakovich Volfkovich
for outstanding achievements in chemisry and the technology of phosphorus and the development of scientific foundations of chemicalization of agriculture in the USSR.
1.15 1977
Mikhail Alekseevich Lavrentiev
for outstanding achievements in mathematics and mechanics.
for outstanding achievements in organic chemistry.
1.17 1979
Aleksandr Ivanovich OparinAleksandr Ivanovich Oparin ( , 2 March ( 18 February Julian) 1894 21 April 1980) Soviet biologist and biochemist. Member of the Soviet Academy of Sciences. Founder of the RAS Biochemistry Institute ( 1935). In 1924 put forward a theory of life on Earth de
for outstanding achievements in biochemistry.
Bela Szoekefalvi-Nady (full member of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences)
for outstanding achievements in mathematics.
1.18 1980
Jaroslav Kožešník (full member of the Czechoslovak Academy of Sciences)
for outstanding achievements in applied mathematics and mechanics.
Boris Yevgenevich Paton
for outstanding achievements in metallurgy and metal technology.
1.19 1981
Vladimir Aleksandrovich Kotelnikov
for outstanding achievements in radiophysics, 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.
1.20 1982
Dorothy Crowfoot HodgkinDorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin OM ( May 12, 1910 July 29, 1994) was a British scientist, born Dorothy Mary Crowfoot in Cairo. She was a pioneer of X-ray crystallography. She discovered the chemical structure of penicillin in the 1940s, which enabled it to be ma (professor, member of the London Royal Society)
for outstanding achievements in biochemistry and crystal chemistry.
Julii Borisovich KharitonJulii Borisovich Khariton February 27, 1904 December 18, 1996) was a Soviet physicist working in the field of atomic energy. Khariton, Julii Borisovich Khariton, Julii Borisovich Khariton, Juliy Khariton, Juliy.
for outstanding achievements in physics.
1.21 1983
Andrei Lvovich Kursanov
for outstanding achievements in physiology and biochemistry of plants.
for outstanding achievements in the physics of solid Earth.
Boris Sergeevich Sokolov
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.