Gennady Mesyats
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Kemerovo
Kemerovo is an industrial city in Russia, situated on the Tom River, east-northeast of Novosibirsk. It is the administrative center of Kemerovo Oblast, located in the major coal mining region of the Kuznetsk Basin...

, Russia) is a Russia
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n 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
Russian Academy of Sciences
The Russian Academy of Sciences consists of the national academy of Russia and a network of scientific research institutes from across the Russian Federation as well as auxiliary scientific and social units like libraries, publishers and hospitals....

 since 1987 and a director of the Lebedev Physical Institute
Lebedev Physical Institute
The Lebedev Physics Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences , situated in Moscow, is one of the leading Russian research institutes specializing in physics. It is also one of the oldest research institutions in Russia: its history dates back to a collection of physics equipment established by...

 since 2004.

He was announced as the recipient of the IEEE Marie Sklodowska-Curie Award
IEEE Marie Sklodowska-Curie Award
Ther IEEE Marie Sklodowska-Curie Award is a Technical Field Award that was established by the IEEE Board of Directors in 2008. This award may be presented for outstanding contributions to the field of nuclear and plasma sciences and engineering....

 for 2012.

Honours and awards

  • Gold and silver medal, a diploma of honour of the USSR Exhibition of Economic Achievements
  • Order of Lenin
    Order of Lenin
    The Order of Lenin , named after the leader of the Russian October Revolution, was the highest decoration bestowed by the Soviet Union...

     (1986)
  • Order of the Badge of Honour (1976)
  • Order of the Red Banner of Labour
    Order of the Red Banner of Labour
    The Order of the Red Banner of Labour was an order of the Soviet Union for accomplishments in labour and civil service. It is the labour counterpart of the military Order of the Red Banner. A few institutions and factories, being the pride of Soviet Union, also received the order.-History:The Red...

     (1971)
  • Order of Merit for the Fatherland
    Order of Merit for the Fatherland
    The Order of Merit for the Fatherland was instituted on 2 March 1994 by Presidential Decree. The statutes describe it as a decoration for merit, not an order of knights....

    , 2nd class (2006), 3rd class (1999) and 4th class (1996)
  • Jubilee Medal "For Valiant Labour. To commemorate the 100th anniversary of Lenin" (1970)
  • Gold Medal of Academician NN Moiseev (2000s).
  • Honour of the Komsomol (1960)
  • Lenin Komsomol Prize
    Lenin Komsomol Prize
    Lenin Komsomol Prize was a Soviet annual award for the best works in science, engineering, literature or art carried out by young authors of age not exceeding 33 years...

     (1968)
  • USSR State Prize
    USSR State Prize
    The USSR State Prize was the Soviet Union's state honour. It was established on September 9, 1966. After the breakup of the Soviet Union, the prize was followed up by the State Prize of the Russian Federation....

     (1978)
  • Winner of the State Prize of the Russian Federation for Science and Technology
    State Prize of the Russian Federation
    State Prize of the Russian Federation is a state honorary prize established in 1992 as the substitute for the USSR State Prize. In 2004 the rules for selection of laureates and the status of the award was significantly changed making them closer to such awards as Nobel Prize or the Soviet Lenin...

     (1998)
  • Laureate of the USSR Council of Ministers (1990)
  • Awarded to William Dyke (1990) for the discovery and study of explosive electron emission
  • Awarded to E. Marx (1991) for his work on high-power pulsed electronics
  • Prize winner Alexander Stoletov (1996)
  • Winner of the prize "Global Energy" in 2003
  • Demidov Prize
    Demidov Prize
    The Demidov Prize was a national scientific prize in the Russian Empire awarded annually to the members of the Russian Academy of Sciences. One of the most prestigious and oldest scientific awards in the world, its traditions influenced other awards of this kind including the Nobel Prize...

  • Honorary Citizen of the Tomsk Oblast
    Tomsk Oblast
    Tomsk Oblast is a federal subject of Russia . It lies in the southeastern West Siberian Plain, in the southwest of the Siberian Federal District. Its administrative center is the city of Tomsk. Population:...

  • Honorary citizen of Yekaterinburg
    Yekaterinburg
    Yekaterinburg is a major city in the central part of Russia, the administrative center of Sverdlovsk Oblast. Situated on the eastern side of the Ural mountain range, it is the main industrial and cultural center of the Urals Federal District with a population of 1,350,136 , making it Russia's...

  • Chevalier of the Légion d'honneur
    Légion d'honneur
    The Legion of Honour, or in full the National Order of the Legion of Honour is a French order established by Napoleon Bonaparte, First Consul of the Consulat which succeeded to the First Republic, on 19 May 1802...

    (France, 2008)
  • Medal of Honour (2011)

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