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