The prizes and gold medals named after prominent scientists () are issued by 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 important scientific works, discoveries and inventions. The awards are issued in the name of the RAS according to the results of contests announced by the RAS Presidium.Prizes and medals named after prominent scientists a RAS website
Great Gold Medals
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Lomonosov Gold Medal
The Lomonosov Gold Medal ( ''Bol'shaya zolotaya medal' imeni M. V. Lomonosova''), named after Russian scientist and polymath Mikhail Lomonosov, is awarded each year since 1959 for outstanding achievements in the natural sciences and the humaniti ...
N. N. Bogolyubov
Nikolay Nikolayevich (Mykola Mykolayovych) Bogolyubov (; ; 21 August 1909 – 13 February 1992) was a Soviet Union, Soviet, Ukraine, Ukrainian and Russia, Russian mathematician and theoretical physics, theoretical physicist known for a signifi ...
Kovalevskaya Prize
Kovalevskaya Prize () is a national scientific prize awarded by Russian Academy of Sciences for outstanding achievements in mathematics since 1997 in honor of Sofya Kovalevskaya.
Kovalevskaya Prize winners
* O. A. Ladyzhenskaya, 1992
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Lobachevsky Prize
The Lobachevsky Prize, awarded by the Russian Academy of Sciences, and the Lobachevsky Medal, awarded by the Kazan State University, are mathematical awards in honor of Nikolai Ivanovich Lobachevsky.
History
The Lobachevsky Prize was establishe ...
I. G. Petrovsky
Ivan Georgiyevich Petrovsky (; 18 January 1901 – 15 January 1973) was a Soviet Union, Soviet mathematician working mainly in the field of partial differential equations. He greatly contributed to the solution of David Hilbert, Hilbert's Hilbert' ...
Kurchatov Medal
The Kurchatov Medal, or the Gold Medal in honour of Igor Kurchatov is an award given for outstanding achievements in nuclear physics and in the field of nuclear energy. The USSR Academy of Sciences established this award on February 9, 1960 in hono ...
Landau Gold Medal
The Landau Gold Medal () is the highest award in theoretical physics awarded by the Russian Academy of Sciences and its predecessor the Soviet Academy of Sciences. It was established in 1971 and is named after Soviet physicist and Nobel Laurea ...
E. S. Fedorov
Evgraf Stepanovich Fedorov (, – 21 May 1919) was a Russian mathematician, crystallographer and mineralogist.
Fedorov was born in the Russian city of Orenburg. His father was a topographical engineer. The family later moved to Saint Petersbur ...
Friedmann Prize
The Friedmann Prize is a Soviet and Russian physics prize, awarded for outstanding work in cosmology and gravity, as well as earth sciences. It is named after the Russian cosmologist Alexander Alexandrovich Friedmann.
Between 1972 and 1990 the pri ...
Andronov Prize
The Andronov Prize is a Soviet and Russian mathematics prize, awarded for outstanding works in the classical mechanics and control theory. It is named after the Soviet physicist and member of the Soviet Academy of Sciences
Alexander Alexandrovich ...
V. A. Kargin
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V. M. Bekhterev
Vladimir Mikhailovich Bekhterev ( rus, Влади́мир Миха́йлович Бе́хтерев, p=ˈbʲextʲɪrʲɪf; 20 January 1857 – 24 December 1927) was a Russian neurologist and the father of objective psychology. He is best known for ...
Nikolay Shatsky
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