Gennady Mesyats

Russian physicist

Gennady Mesyats
Геннадий Месяц
Mesyats (left) in 1971
Born	Gennady Andreyevich Mesyats (1936-02-29) 29 February 1936 (age 88) Kemerovo, West Siberian Krai, RSFSR, Soviet Union
Nationality	Russian
Citizenship	Soviet Union Russia
Alma mater	Tomsk Polytechnic University
Known for	High-current electronics emission, Nanosecond pulse sources, Injection gas electronics, Ectons
Scientific career
Fields	Physics of plasma
Institutions	Lebedev Physical Institute
Doctoral advisor	Lev Sena

Gennady Andreyevich Mesyats (Russian: 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.^[1]^[2]

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)^[3]
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

^ Gennady Mesyats. Loc. 2012-06-24. ISBN 9786201234963. Retrieved 20 August 2018. {{cite book}}: |work= ignored (help)
^ "Honorary Doctors". Retrieved 20 August 2018.
^ "Dyke Awards". isdeiv.lbl.gov. Archived from the original on 9 March 2016.