Gennady Mesyats
Gennady Andreyevich Mesyats is a Soviet and Russian physicist, founder of several scientific schools — high-current electronics and pulse electrophysics, one of the acknowledged world leaders in these areas.
He has been a vice-president of the Russian Academy of Sciences since 1987 and a director of the Lebedev Physical Institute since 2004.
Honours and awards
- Order "For Merit to the Fatherland", 1st class
- Order "For Merit to the Fatherland", 2nd class
- Order "For Merit to the Fatherland", 3rd class
- Order "For Merit to the Fatherland", 4th class
- Lenin Komsomol Prize
- Jubilee Medal "In Commemoration of the 100th Anniversary of the Birth of Vladimir Ilyich Lenin"
- Order of the Red Banner of Labour
- USSR State Prize
- Order of the Badge of Honour
- Order of Lenin
- Dyke Award
- State Prize of the Russian Federation for Science and Technology
- Demidov Prize
- Global Energy Prize
- Legion of Honour
- Order of Honour
- IEEE Marie Sklodowska-Curie Award
- Order of Alexander Nevsky