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The Lomonosov Gold Medal, named after Russian 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.

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1 Recipients of Lomonosov Gold Medal

1.1 1959

Pyotr Leonidovich Kapitsa
cumulatively, for works in physics of low temperatures.

1.2 1962

Aleksandr Nikolaevich Nesmeyanov
accumulatively for works in chemistry.

1.3 1964

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.
Yukawa Hideki (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.

1.4 1965

Sir Howard Walter Florey (professor, president of the Royal Society of Great Britain)
for an outstanding contribution in the development of medicine.
Nikolai Vasilevich Belov
accumulatively for works in crystallography.

1.5 1967

Cecil Frank Powell (professor, member of the Royal Society of Great Britain)
for outstanding achievements in the physics of elementary particles.
Igor Yevgenyevich Tamm
for outstanding achievements in the theory of elementary particles and other domain of theoretical physics

1.6 1968

Vladimir Aleksandrovich Engelgardt
for outstanding achievements in biochemistry and molecular biology.
Ishtvan Rysznyak (president of the Academy of Sciences of the Hungarian People's Republics)
for outstanding achievements in medicine.

1.7 1969

Giulio Natta (professor, Italy)
for outstanding achievements in the chemistry of polymers
Nikolay Nikolaevich Semenov
for outstanding achievements in chemical physics.

1.8 1970

Arnaud Denjoy (member of the Academie Francaise)
for outstanding achievements in mathematics.
Ivan Matveevich Vinogradov
for outstanding studies in mathematics.

1.9 1971

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.


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