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. Since 1967, two medals have been awarded annually: one to a Russian and one to a foreign scientist. It is the academy's highest accolade.

Recipients of Lomonosov Gold Medal

1959

1961

1963

  • Sin-Itiro Tomonaga : for substantial scientific contributions to the development of physics.
  • Hideki Yukawa : for outstanding merits in the development of theoretical physics.

1964

1965

1967

  • Igor Yevgenyevich Tamm: for outstanding achievements in the theory of elementary particles and other domain of theoretical physics
  • Cecil Frank Powell : for outstanding achievements in the physics of elementary particles.

1968

1969

1970

1971

1972

1973

1974

1975

1976

  • Semyon Isaakovich Volfkovich: for outstanding achievements in chemistry and the technology of phosphorus and the development of scientific foundations of chemicalization of agriculture in the USSR.
  • Herman Klare : for outstanding achievements in the chemistry and technology of man-made fibers.

1977

1978

1979

1980

1981

1982

1983

1984

1985

1986

1987

1988

1989

1993

1994

1995

  • Vitaly Lazarevich Ginzburg: for outstanding achievements in theoretical physics and astrophysics.
  • Anatole Abragam : for outstanding achievements in physics of condensed state and methods of research in nuclear physics.

1996

1997

  • Boris Sergeyevich 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.
  • Frank Press : for outstanding achievements in the physics of solid Earth.

1998

  • Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn: for an outstanding contribution into the development of Russian literature, Russian language and Russian history.
  • Yosikazu Nakamura : for an outstanding contribution to the study of Slavistics and the popularization of Russian literature and culture in Japan.

1999

  • Valentin Lavrentevich Yanin: for achievements in the archaeological studies of medieval Russia.
  • Michael Müller-Wille : for achievements in the study of foreign relations of early medieval Russia.

2000

2001

  • Alexander Sergeevich Spirin: for achievements in the study of the structure of nucleic acids and the functions of ribosomes.
  • Alexander Rich : for achievements in the study of the structure of nucleic acids and the functions of ribosomes.

2002

2003

2004

  • Gury Ivanovich Marchuk: for his outstanding contribution to the creation of new models and methods of solving problems of nuclear-reactor physics, atmosphere and ocean physics.
  • Edward N. Lorenz : for major achievements in developing the theory of general circulation of the atmosphere and the theory of chaotic attractors of dissipative systems.

2005

2006

2007

2008

2009

2010

2011

  • Vladimir Alexandrovich Tartakovsky: for outstanding contributions in chemistry.
  • Roald Hoffmann : for outstanding contributions in chemistry.

2012

  • Gleb Vsevolodovich Dobrovolsky: for outstanding contribution in the field of soil science.
  • Richard Warren Arnold : for his outstanding contribution to the development of theoretical and applied soil science and modeling the behavior of soils in different landscapes of the world.

2013

2014

  • Anatoly Derevyanko: for his outstanding contribution to the development of a new fundamental scientific concept formation of modern human physical type and its culture.
  • Svante Pääbo : for outstanding achievements in the field of archeology and paleogenetics.

2015

  • Leonid Veniaminovich Keldysh: for outstanding contributions to the physics of tunnel phenomena, including the tunnel effects in semiconductors.
  • Paul Corkum : for outstanding contribution in ultrafast physics, including attosecond range, and interferometry processes of electron wave functions in atoms and molecules with unprecedented spatial and temporal resolution.

2016

  • Dmitrii Knorre: for his outstanding contribution in the field of nucleic acid chemistry, affinity modification of biopolymers, becoming the most important areas of pharmacology - therapeutic nucleic acids and the development of gene therapy techniques.
  • Sidney Altman : for his outstanding contribution in the field of biochemistry of nucleic acids, the discovery of the catalytic activity of the nucleic acids and the creation of new biologically active substances.

2017

  • Yuri Tsolakovich Oganesyan: for fundamental research in the field of interaction of complex nuclei and experimental confirmation of the hypothesis of the existence of "stability islands" of superheavy elements.
  • Björn Jonson : for work of a fundamental nature, which are of fundamental importance for the study of the nuclear structure and nuclear stability of exotic lightest nuclei at the boundaries of nucleon stability.

2018

  • Joseph Isaevich Gitelzon: for the justification and development of the ecological direction of biophysics, which has achieved a number of outstanding fundamental and practical results, in particular in marine and laboratory studies of bioluminescence.
  • Martin Chalfie : for developing new methods for bioluminescent analysis using GFP luminescent protein.

2019

2020

  • Sergey Petrovich Novikov: for a leading role in the revival of modern topology in our country, solving fundamental problems of topology, the theory of nonlinear waves, quantum mechanics and field theory.
  • John Willard Milnor : for the discovery of non-standard smooth structures on multidimensional spheres, solving fundamental problems of topology and the theory of dynamical systems.

2021

  • Georgy Pavlovich Georgiev: for classical works on the study of the structure and expression of the genome of higher eukaryotes.
  • Richard John Roberts : for his great contribution to the study of pro- and eukaryotic genomes, RNA splicing, gene identification restriction enzymes and methylases.

2022

  • Yuri Victorovich Natochin for studying the mechanism of water-salt metabolism in astronauts and ways to normalize it in stroke.
  • Denis Noble for developing a mathematical model of the electrical phenomena of the heart.