Gennady Mesyats

Gennady Andreyevich Mesyats (Геннадий Андреевич Месяц, 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)