Gennady Andreyevich Mesyats (, born 29 February 1936) 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", 2nd class (2006) Order "For Merit to the Fatherland", 3rd class (1999) Order "For Merit to the Fatherland", 4th class (1996) Lenin Komsomol Prize (1968) Jubilee Medal "In Commemoration of the 100th Anniversary of the Birth of Vladimir Ilyich Lenin" (1970) Order of the Red Banner of Labour (1971) USSR State Prize (1978) Order of the Badge of Honour (1981) Order of Lenin (1986) Dyke Award (1990) State Prize of the Russian Federation for Science and Technology (1998) Demidov Prize (2002) Global Energy Prize (2003) Legion of Honour (2008) Order of Honour (2011) IEEE Marie Sklodowska-Curie Award (2012) Order of Alexander Nevsky (2021)
References
External links
Gennady Mesyats at the Russian Academy of Sciences website
1936 births
20th-century Russian physicists
21st-century Russian physicists
Living people
People from Kemerovo
Academic staff of the Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology
Academic staff of Tomsk Polytechnic University
Academic staff of Tomsk State University
Fellows of the American Physical Society
Foreign associates of the National Academy of Engineering
Full Members of the Russian Academy of Sciences
Full Members of the USSR Academy of Sciences
Honorary Members of the Russian Academy of Education
Members of the German Academy of Sciences at Berlin
Tomsk Polytechnic University alumni
Members of the Central Committee of the 27th Congress of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union Demidov Prize laureates Knights of the Legion of Honour Recipients of the Lenin Komsomol Prize Recipients of the Order "For Merit to the Fatherland", 2nd class Recipients of the Order "For Merit to the Fatherland", 3rd class Recipients of the Order "For Merit to the Fatherland", 4th class Recipients of the Order of Alexander Nevsky Recipients of the Order of the Badge of Honour Recipients of the Order of Honour (Russia) Recipients of the Order of Lenin Recipients of the Order of the Red Banner of Labour Recipients of the USSR State Prize State Prize of the Russian Federation laureates Russian physicists Soviet physicists