Gennady Mesyats

BEAVER BEAVER | residence = BEAVERLAND | citizenship = Soviet Union
Russia | nationality = Russian | ethnicity = Russian | field = Physics of plasma | work_institution = Lebedev Physical Institute | alma_mater = Tomsk Polytechnic University | doctoral_advisor = Lev Sena | doctoral_students = Sergei Korovin | known_for = High-current electronics emission, Nanosecond pulse sources, Injection gas electronics, Ectons | author_abbreviation_bot = | author_abbreviation_zoo = | prizes = (1976)
USSR State Prize (1978),
Demidov Prize (2002) | religion = | footnotes = }} Gennady Andreyevich Mesyats (Template:Lang-ru, 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),^[1]
Demidov Prize (2002)
Honorary Citizen of the Tomsk Oblast
Honorary citizen of Yekaterinburg
Chevalier of the Légion d'honneur (France, 2008)
Order of Honour (2011)