Lomonosov Gold Medal

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.

Recipients of Lomonosov Gold Medal

1959
KAPITSA Piotr Leonidovich
accumulatively for works in physics of low temperatures.

1962
NESMEIANOV Aleksandr Nikolaevich
accumulatively for works in chemistry.

1964
TOMONAGA Sin-Itiro (member of the Japanese academy of Sciences, president of the Scientific Council of Japan)
for substantial scientific contributions to the development of physics.

1964
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.

1965
FLOREY Howard Walter, sir (professor, president of the Royal Society of Great Britain)
for an outstanding contribution in the development of medicine.

1965
BELOV Nikolai Vasilyevich
accumulatively for works in crystallography.

1967
POWELL Cecil Frank (professor, member of the Royal Society of Great Britain)
for outstanding achievements in the physics of elementary particles.

1967
TAMM Igor Yevgenyevich
for outstanding achievements in the theory of elementary particles and other domain of theoretical physics

1968
ENGELGARDT Vladimir Aleksandrovich
for outstanding achievements in biochemistry and molecular biology.

1968
RYSZNYAK Ishtvan (president of the Academy of Sciences of the Hungarian People's Republics)
for outstanding achievements in medicine.

1969
NATTA Giulio (professor, Italy)
for outstanding achievements in the chemistry of polymers

1969
SEMENOV Nikolai Nikolaevich
for outstanding achievements in chemical physics.

1970
DENJOY Arnaud (member of the Academie Francaise)
for outstanding achievements in mathematics.

1970
VINOGRADOV Ivan Matveevich
for outstanding studies in mathematics.

1971
ALFVEN Hannes (professor, member of the Royal Academy of Sciences in Stockholm, Sweden)
for outstanding achievements in physics of plasma and astrophysics.

1971
AMBARTSUMIAN Viktor Amazaspovich
for outstanding achievements in astronomy and astrophysics.

1972
MUSKHELISHVILI Nikolai Ivanovich
for outstanding achievements in mathematics and mechanics.

1972
STEENBECK Max (full member of the Academy of Sciences of the German Democratic Republic)
for outstanding achievements in the physics of plasma and applied physics.

1973
VINOGRADOV Aleksandr Pavlovich
for outstanding achievements in geochemistry.

1973
ZOUBEK Vladimir (full member of the Czechoslovak Academy of Sciences)
for outstanding achievements in geology.

1974
BALEVSKI Angel Tonchev (full member of the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences)
for outstanding achievements in metallurgy and metal technology.

1974
TSELIKOV Aleksandr Ivanovich
for outstanding achievements in metallurgy and metal technology.

1975
KELDYSH Mstislav Vsevolodovich
for outstanding achievements in mathematics, mechanics and space research.

1975
ROI Moris (full member of the Academy Francaise)
for outstanding achievements in mechanics and its applications.

1976
KLARE Herman (full member of the Academy of Sciences of the German Democratic Republic)
for outstanding achievements in the chemistry and technology of man-made fibers.

1976
VOL'FKOVICH Semion Isaakovich
for outstanding achievements in chemisry and the technology of phosphorus and the development of scientific foundations of chemicalization of agriculture in the USSR.

1977
LAVRENTIEV Mikhail Alekseevich
for outstanding achievements in mathematics and mechanics.

1977
PAULING Linus Carl (member of the US National Academy of Sciences)
for outstanding achievements in chemistry and biochemistry.

1978
ALEKSANDROV Anatolii Petrovich
for outstanding achievements in nuclear science and technology.

1978
TODD Alexander Robertus (professor, president of the Royal Society of Great Britain)
for outstanding achievements in organic chemistry.

1979
OPARIN Aleksandr Ivanovich
for outstanding achievements in biochemistry.

1979
SZOEKEFALVI-NADY Bela (full member of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences)
for outstanding achievements in mathematics.

1980
KOZHESHNIK Jaroslav (full member of the Czechoslovak Academy of Sciences)
for outstanding achievements in applied mathematics and mechanics.

1980
PATON Boris Yevgenyevich
for outstanding achievements in metallurgy and metal technology.

1981
KOTELNIKOV Vladimir Aleksandrovich
for outstanding achievements in radiophysics, radio engineering and electronics.

1981
SAVICH Pavle (full member of the Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts, Socialst Federativ Republic of Yugoslavia)
for outstanding achievements in chemistry and physics.

1982
HODGKIN (CROWFOOT-HODGKIN) Dorothy Mary (professor, member of the London Royal Society)
for outstanding achievements in biochemistry and crystal chemistry.

1982
KHARITON Julii Borisovich
for outstanding achievements in physics.

1983
KURSANOV Andrei Lvovich
for outstanding achievements in physiology and biochemistry of plants.

1983
SALAM Abdus (professor, Pakistan)
for outstanding achievements in physics.

1984
BOGOLIUBOV Nikolai Nikolaevich
for outstanding achievements in mathematics and theoretical physics.

1984
MOESSBAUER Rudolf Ludwig (professor, Federal Republic of Germany)
for outstanding achievements in physics.

1985
ARO Guillermo (professor, Mexico)
for outstanding achievements in astrophysics.

1985
SADOVSKII Mikhail Aleksandrovich
for outstanding achievements in geology and geophysics.

1986
FIODOROV Sviatoslav Nikolaevich
for outstanding achievements in ophthalmology and eye microsurgery.

1986
RZHIMAN Josef (academician, Chairman of the Czechoslovak Academy of Sciences)
for outstanding achievements in biochemistry.

1987
BARDEEN John (professor, USA)
for outstanding achievements in physics.

1987
PROKHOROV Aleksandr Mikhailovich
for outstanding achievements in physics.

1988
LERAY Jean (professor, France)
for outstanding achievements in mathematics.

1988
SOBOLEV Sergei L?vovich (posthumously)
for outstanding achievements in mathematics.

1989
BASOV Nikolai Gennadievich
for outstanding achievements in physics.

1989
BETHE Hans Albrecht (professor, USA)
for outstanding achievements in physics.

1993
GALBRAITH John (professor, USA)
for outstanding achievements in economic and social sciences.

1993
LIKHACHIOV Dmitrii Sergeevich
for outstanding achievements in the humanities.

1994
KOCHETKOV Nikolai Konstantinovich
for outstanding achievements in the chemistry of carbohydrates and organic synthesis.

1994
WATSON James D. (professor, USA)
for outstanding achievements in molecular biology.

1995
ABRAHAM Anatol (professor, France)
for outstanding achievements in physics of condensed state and methods of research in nuclear physics.

1995
GINZBURG Vitalii Lazarevich
for outstanding achievements in theoretical physics and astrophysics.

1996
HIERZEBRUCH Friedrich (professor, Federal Republic of Germany)
for outstanding achievements in algebraic geometry and algebraic topology.

1996
KRASOVSKII Nikolai Nikolaevich
for outstanding achievements in the mathematical theory of control and the theory of differential games.

1997
PRESS Frank (professor, USA)
for outstanding achievements in the physics of solid Earth.

1997
SOKOLOV Boris Sergeevich
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.

1998
SOLZHENITSYN Aleksandr Isaevich
for an outstanding contribution into the development of Russian literature, Russian language and Russian history.

1998
NAKAMURA Yosikadzu (professor, Japan)
for an outstanding contribution to the study of Slavistics and the popularization of Russian literature and culture in Japan.

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2001
RICH Alexander[?] (professor, United States)
for achievements in the study of the structure of nucleic acids and the functions of ribosomes.