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Awards
 
Nobel Prize in Physics
  • 1958 - Igor Tamm (jointly with Pavel Cherenkov and Ilya Frank) — for the discovery and the interpretation of the Cherenkov effect

  • 2003 - Vitaly Ginzburg (jointly with Alexei Abrikosov and Anthony Leggett) — for pioneering contributions to the theory of superconductors and superfluids
 

Nobel Peace Prize

  • 1975 - Andrei Sakharov - for his struggle for human rights in the Soviet Union, for disarmament, and cooperation between all nations
 

Lenin prize

  • 1957 - Andrei Sakharov (jointly with Igor Kurchatov, Yakov Zeldovich, and Yulii Khariton) - (classified section of the award decree)

  • 1966 - Vitaly Ginzburg (jointly with Alexei Abrikosov and Lev Gorkov) — for the development of the theory of superconducting alloys and the properties of superconductors in strong magnetic fields

  • 1973 - Leonid Keldysh — for a series of theoretical works on semiconductor physics (tunneling effect, semiconductors in strong electric fields, multiphoton processes in solids)
 

Stalin Prize, Physico-Mathematical Sciences, First Degree

  • 1943-1944 - Igor Tamm (jointly with Sergey Vavilov, Ilya Frank, and Pavel Cherenkov) — for the discovery and investigation of electron radiation when moving through matter at superluminal speeds, the results of which were summarized and published in the "Proceedings of the Lebedev Physical Institute (FIAN)" (1944).

Stalin Prize for Outstanding Inventions and Fundamental Improvements in Production Methods
  • 1953 - Vitaly Ginzburg, Igor Tamm, Andrei Sakharov, Efim Fradkin (among 71 participants of the nuclear project)
 

USSR State Prize in the field of science and technology

  • 1982 — Yuri Kopaev (jointly with Alexei Abrikosov, Nikolai Brandt, Sergey Chudinov, Sergey Vonsovsky, Isaac Tsidilkovsky, Edgar Neifeld, Vladimir Ivanov-Omsky, Boris Gelmont, Vitaly Stafeev, Viktor Ogorodnikov, Ksenia Smekalova — for a series of works on the prediction, detection, and investigation of gapless semiconductors and exciton phases

  • 1982 — Sergey Syrovatsky, Vladimir Dogiel, Boris Somov (jointly with Andrei Khodzhaev, Sergey Bulanov, Anna Frank, Juozas Žugžda, Olga Shmeleva, Vladimir Imshennik, Pavel Sasorov, Galina Ostrovskaya) - for the series of works "Dynamics of Current Sheets and Solar Activity"

  • 1985 - Boris Volkov (jointly with Harry Baronov, Leonid Kurchatov, Alexander Britov, Ivan Zasavitsky, Galina Kalyuzhnaya, Alexei Shotov, Yuri Kosichkin, Alexander Nadezhdinsky, Vsevolod Koloshnikov, Yuri Kuritsyn, Vyacheslav Khattatov) — for the series of works "Tunable lasers based on AIVBVI semiconductors and high-resolution molecular spectroscopy based on them"

  • 1995 - Boris Volkov (jointly with Boris Akimov, Nikolai Brandt, Evgeny Skipetrov, Dmitry Khokhlov, Igor Neizvestny, Vladimir Shumsky, Sergey Nemov) - for the discovery, experimental, and theoretical investigation of a new class of photosensitive semiconductors
 

Lomonosov Gold Medal of the RAS (Russian Academy of Sciences)

  • 1967 - Igor Tamm — for outstanding achievements in the theory of elementary particles and other fields of theoretical physics

  • 1995 - Vitaly Ginzburg — for outstanding achievements in the field of theoretical physics and astrophysics

  • 2015 - Leonid Keldysh — for outstanding contributions to the physics of tunneling phenomena, including the tunneling effect in semiconductors and its connection with the electronic and vibrational spectra of crystals, the discovery of the tunneling modification of optical absorption spectra, and the tunneling ionization of atoms, molecules, and condensed matter by powerful optical laser fields
 

Lomonosov Prize of the Academy of Sciences of the USSR

  • 1961 - Vitaly Ginzburg — for research on the theory of the Vavilov-Cherenkov effect

  • 1964 - Leonid Keldysh

  • 1978 - David Kirzhnits, Andrei Linde

 

Vavilov Gold Medal of the RAS

  • 1988 — Evgeny Feinberg — for works on elementary particle physics, radiophysics, and acoustics

  • 1995 — Vitaly Ginzburg — for outstanding works in the field of physics, including a series of works on the theory of radiation from uniformly moving sources

  • 2005 — Leonid Keldysh — for the series of works "Development of modern methods for describing non-equilibrium states in condensed matter theory

  • 2010 — Vladimir Ritus — for the series of works "Fundamental problems of intense field quantum electrodynamics
 

Sakharov Gold Medal of the RAS

  • 1996 - Efim Fradkin — for a series of works on quantum field theory
 

Tamm Gold Medal of the RAS

  • 2015 - Mikhail Vasiliev — for the series of works "Higher-Spin Gauge Theories"

  • 2020 - Kirill Zybin — for research on transport processes in turbulent media

  • 2025 - ladimir Ritus — for the series of works "Discovery of a dual connection between electrodynamics and two-dimensional scalar field theory, leading to unique finite values of the bare charge and the Dyson renormalization factor"
 

Landau Prize of the Academy of Sciences of the USSR

  • 1980 — Alexander Gurevich (jointly with Lev Pitaevskii) - for outstanding research in plasma physics
 

Mandelstam Prize of the RAS

  • 1994 — Alexander Gurevich, Vasily Beskin, Yakov Istomin — for the series of works "Theory of Magnetospheres and Radiation of Pulsars"
 

Tamm Prize of the RAS

  • 1980 — Efim Fradkin — for the series of works "Functional Methods in Quantum Field Theory and Statistics"

  • 1983 — Anatoly Nikishov, Vladimir Ritus — for the series of works "Quantum Electrodynamics of Phenomena in an Intense Field."

  • 1995 — Igor Batalin — for the series of works "General Theory of Quantization of Gauge Systems"

  • 1998 — David Kirzhnits (jointly with Galina Shpatakovskaya) — for the series of works "Improvement of the Thomas-Fermi Method with Applications to Atomic Physics of High Energy Densities"

  • 2001 — Boris Voronov, Igor Tyutin — for the series of works "Issues of Formulation, Structural Analysis, and Renormalization of General Gauge Theories"

  • 2004 — Igor Dremin — for the series of works "Multifractality and Correlations in Multiple Particle Production in Quantum Chromodynamics"
 

Friedmann Prize of the RAS

  • 2005 — Alexander Gurevich, Kirill Zybin,
    - for the series of works "Nonlinear Theory of Gravitational Instability of Non-dissipative Cold Matter and the Formation of the Large-scale Structure of the Universe"

  • 2017 - Andrei Barvinsky , (jointly with Igor Ivanovich Tkachev and Alexander Yurievich Kamenshchik) - for the series of works "New Directions in the Cosmology of the Early and Modern Universe"
 

RAS Medal for Young Scientists

  • 2024 — Nikita Kolganov,
    - for the work "Non-equilibrium phenomena in the early Universe and non-perturbative quantum systems"
 

RAS Medal for Students of Higher Education Programs in Russia

  • 2023 — Vladimir Khiteev,
    for the work "Wilson networks in AdS space and global conformal blocks"
  • 2024 — Maria Belyakova,
    for the work "Spin-independent interaction of Dirac dark matter particles with nucleons in composite Higgs models"
 

Pomeranchuk Prize of the ITEP

  • 2000 - Evgeny Feinberg - зfor outstanding contributions to theoretical physics and especially to the theory of inelastic collisions of hadrons

  • 2014 - Leonid Keldysh

  • 2020 - Mikhail Vasiliev - in recognition of an outstanding series of works on higher-spin theory in Anti-de Sitter and de Sitter spaces

  • 2022 - Arkady Tseytlin - for a series of fundamental results in quantum gravity and string theory that have had a significant impact on modern high-energy physics

  • 2023 - Igor Tyutin - for the discovery of BRST symmetry and its application to the quantization of gauge theories (simultaneously and independently of C. Becchi, A. Rouet, and R. Stora). This procedure is also of fundamental importance for the construction of field theories of interacting strings
 

EPS Europhysics Prize (European Physical Society

  • 1975 - Leonid Keldysh (jointly with Yaroslav Pokrovsky, Viktor Bagaev, and Michel Voos) — for research on exciton condensation
 

Dannie Heineman Prize for Mathematical Physics (American Physical Society)

  • 2009 - Igor Tyutin (jointly with A. Rouet, C. Becchi, and R. Stora) - for the discovery and application of BRST symmetry to the quantization of gauge theories, providing a fundamental and essential tool for subsequent developments
 

Eugene Feenberg Memorial Medal

  • 2011 - Leonid Keldysh - for extending diagrammatic techniques for many-body systems to non-equilibrium systems, and for the theory of electron-hole plasma in semiconductors
 

Dirac Medal (ICTP)

  • 1988 — Efim Fradkin - for numerous fruitful contributions to the development of quantum field theory and statistics
 

Appleton Prize (International Union of Radio Science, URSI)

  • 1990 - Alexander Gurevich - for contributions to the study of the nonlinear properties of the ionosphere, in particular, research on the interaction of high-power radio waves with the ionosphere
 

International Nanotechnology Prize (RUSNANOPRIZE)

  • 2009 - Leonid Keldysh - for pioneering research on superlattices and tunneling effects in semiconductors
 

 

 


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