The Leonhard Euler Gold Medal (Золотая медаль имени Леонарда Эйлера) is a medal named after the Swiss, German, and Russian mathematician

Leonhard Euler Leonhard Euler ( ; ; ; 15 April 170718 September 1783) was a Swiss polymath who was active as a mathematician, physicist, astronomer, logician, geographer, and engineer. He founded the studies of graph theory and topology and made influential ...

, awarded by the Отделением математических наук (Branch of Mathematical Sciences of the

Russian Academy of Sciences The Russian Academy of Sciences (RAS; ''Rossíyskaya akadémiya naúk'') consists of the national academy of Russia; a network of scientific research institutes from across the Russian Federation; and additional scientific and social units such ...

) for outstanding results in mathematics and physics. The medal was awarded once in 1957 to two scientists and since 1991 has been awarded every five years.

Laureates

* 1957 —

Igor Kurchatov Igor Vasilyevich Kurchatov (; 12 January 1903 – 7 February 1960), was a Soviet physicist who played a central role in organizing and directing the former Soviet program of nuclear weapons, and has been referred to as "father of the Russian ...

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Felix Frankl Felix Issidorowitsch Frankl (12 March 1905, Vienna – 7 Aprile 1961, Nalchik ) was an Austrian mathematician, who went to live in the Soviet Union where he had an academic career as a university professor. He studied topology at the Faculty of Ma ...

for outstanding results in mathematics and physics * 1991 —

Aleksandr Danilovich Aleksandrov Aleksandr Danilovich Aleksandrov (; 4 August 1912 – 27 July 1999) was a Soviet and Russian mathematician, physicist, philosopher and mountaineer. Personal life Aleksandr Aleksandrov was born in 1912 in Volyn, Ryazan Oblast. His father was ...

for fundamental contributions to the development of mathematics * 1997 —

Yury Osipov Yury Sergeyevich Osipov (; born 7 July 1936) is a Soviet and Russian mathematician. He was elected a full member of the Academy of Sciences of the Soviet Union in 1987 and was a president of its successor, the Russian Academy of Sciences from 17 ...

for outstanding results in mathematics and physics * 2002 —

Ludvig Faddeev Ludvig Dmitrievich Faddeev (also ''Ludwig Dmitriyevich''; ; 23 March 1934 – 26 February 2017) was a Soviet Union, Soviet and Russian Mathematical physics, mathematical physicist. He is known for the discovery of the Faddeev equations in the qu ...

for outstanding results in mathematics and physics * 2007 —

Valery Vasilevich Kozlov Valery Vasilevich Kozlov (Валерий Васильевич Козлов, born 1 January 1950 in Ryazan Oblast) is a Russian mathematician and mathematical physicist. Education and career Kozlov studied from 1967 at the Moscow State University ...

for a series of papers on nonlinear Hamiltonian systems of differential equations * 2012 — Sergei Novikov for his deep contribution to the application of topological methods in quantum physics * 2017 —

Igor Shafarevich Igor Rostislavovich Shafarevich (; 3 June 1923 – 19 February 2017) was a Soviet and Russian mathematician who contributed to algebraic number theory and algebraic geometry. Outside mathematics, he wrote books and articles that criticised social ...

for outstanding contributions to number theory and algebraic geometry * 2022 —

Sergei Godunov Sergei Konstantinovich Godunov (; 17 July 1929 – 15 July 2023) was a Soviet and Russian professor at the Sobolev Institute of Mathematics of the Russian Academy of Sciences in Novosibirsk, Russia. Biography Godunov's most influential work i ...

for outstanding results in the field of computational mathematics

References

Academic awards Leonhard Euler Awards established in 1957 Science and technology in Russia Science and technology awards Russian science and technology awards Russian Academy of Sciences 1957 establishments in Russia