Gennady Mesyats

Gennady Andreyevich Mesyats (Месяц, Геннадий Андреевич, February 29, 1936, Kemerovo, Russia) is a 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.

He was announced as the recipient of the IEEE Marie Sklodowska-Curie Award for 2012.

Honours and awards

 * Gold and silver medal, a diploma of honour of the USSR Exhibition of Economic Achievements
 * Order of Lenin (1986)
 * Order of the Badge of Honour (1976)
 * Order of the Red Banner of Labour (1971)
 * Order of Merit for the Fatherland, 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 (1968)
 * USSR State Prize (1978)
 * Winner of the State Prize of the Russian Federation for Science and Technology (1998)
 * Laureate of the USSR Council of Ministers (1990)
 * Dyke Award (1990),
 * Demidov Prize (2002)
 * Global Energy Prize (2003)
 * Honorary Citizen of the Tomsk Oblast
 * Honorary citizen of Yekaterinburg
 * Chevalier of the Légion d'honneur (France, 2008)
 * Order of Honour (2011)