Biography:Gennady Mesyats

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Gennady Mesyats
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Mesyats (left) receiving an award
Born
Gennady Andreyevich Mesyats

(1936-02-29) 29 February 1936 (age 88)
Kemerovo, West Siberian Krai, RSFSR, Soviet Union
NationalityRussian
Citizenship Soviet Union
 Russia
Alma materTomsk Polytechnic University
Known forHigh-current electronics emission, Nanosecond pulse sources, Injection gas electronics, Ectons
Scientific career
FieldsPhysics of plasma
InstitutionsLebedev Physical Institute
Doctoral advisorLev 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)

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