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{{Short description|Annual Russian natural sciences and humanities award}}
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[[File:Lomonosov Gold Medal.jpg|thumb|Lomonosov Gold Medal]]
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The '''Lomonosov Gold Medal''', named after [[Russia]]n scientist and [[polymath]] [[Mikhail Lomonosov]], is awarded each year since 1959 for outstanding achievements in the natural sciences and the humanities by the [[Soviet Union|USSR]] Academy of Sciences and later the [[Russian Academy of Sciences]] (RAS). Since 1967, two medals are awarded annually: one to a Russian and one to a foreign scientist. It is the Academy's highest accolade.
| name = Lomonosov Gold Medal
| image = Lomonosov Gold Medal.jpg
| alt = A golden medallion with an embossed image of [[Mikhail Lomonosov]] facing left in profile.
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| presenter = {{Plainlist|
* [[Russian Academy of Sciences]]
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| country = {{Plainlist|
* [[Russia]]
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| year = {{start date and age|df=yes|1959}}
| reward = A gold medal, a diploma,
| holder_label = Number of laureates
| holder = 106 prizes to 54 laureates ({{As of|2019|lc=y}})
| website =
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The '''Lomonosov Gold Medal''' ({{langx|ru|Большая золотая медаль имени М. В. Ломоносова}} ''Bol'shaya zolotaya medal' imeni M. V. Lomonosova''), named after [[Russia]]n scientist and [[polymath]] [[Mikhail Lomonosov]], is awarded each year since 1959 for outstanding achievements in the natural sciences and the humanities by the [[Soviet Union|USSR]] Academy of Sciences and later the [[Russian Academy of Sciences]] (RAS). Since 1967, two medals arehave been awarded annually: one to a Russian and one to a foreign scientist. It is the Academyacademy's highest accolade.
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===1963===
* [[Sin-Itiro Tomonaga]] (member of the Japanese academy of Sciences, president of the Scientific Council of Japan) : for substantial scientific contributions to the development of physics.
* [[Hideki Yukawa]] (member of the Japanese academy of Sciences, director of the Institute of Basic Research at the University of Kyoto) : for outstanding merits in the development of theoretical physics.
 
===1964===
* Sir [[Howard Walter Florey]] (professor, president of the Royal Society of Great Britain) : for an outstanding contribution in the development of medicine.
 
===1965===
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===1967===
* [[Igor Yevgenyevich Tamm]] : for outstanding achievements in the theory of elementary particles and other domain of theoretical physics
* [[Cecil Frank Powell]] (professor, member of the Royal Society of Great Britain) : for outstanding achievements in the physics of elementary particles.
 
===1968===
* [[Vladimir Aleksandrovich Engelgardt]] : for outstanding achievements in biochemistry and molecular biology.
* [[István Rusznyák]] (president of the Academy of Sciences of the Hungarian People's Republics) : for outstanding achievements in medicine.
 
===1969===
* [[Nikolay Nikolaevich Semenov]] : for outstanding achievements in chemical physics.
* [[Giulio Natta]] (professor, Italy) : for outstanding achievements in the chemistry of polymers
 
===1970===
* [[Ivan Matveevich Vinogradov]] : for outstanding studies in mathematics.
* [[Arnaud Denjoy]] (member of the Académie française) : for outstanding achievements in mathematics.
 
===1971===
* [[Viktor Amazaspovich Ambartsumian]] : for outstanding achievements in astronomy and astrophysics.
* [[Hannes Alfvén]] (professor, member of the Royal Academy of Sciences in Stockholm, Sweden) : for outstanding achievements in physics of plasma and astrophysics.
 
===1972===
* [[Nikoloz Muskhelishvili]] : for outstanding achievements in mathematics and mechanics.
* [[Max Steenbeck]] (full member of the Academy of Sciences of the German Democratic Republic) : for outstanding achievements in the physics of plasma and applied physics.
 
===1973===
* [[Aleksandr Pavlovich Vinogradov]] : for outstanding achievements in geochemistry.
* [[Vladimír Zoubek]] (full member of the Czechoslovak Academy of Sciences) : for outstanding achievements in geology.
 
===1974===
* [[Aleksandr Ivanovich Tselikov]] : for outstanding achievements in metallurgy and metal technology.
* [[Angel Balevski]] (full member of the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences) : for outstanding achievements in metallurgy and metal technology.
 
===1975===
* [[Mstislav Vsevolodovich Keldysh]] : for outstanding achievements in mathematics, mechanics and space research.
* {{ill|Maurice Roy (scientist)|lt=Maurice Roy|fr|Maurice Roy (professeur)|de|Maurice Roy (Ingenieur)|ru|Руа, Морис (учёный)}} (full member of the Académie française) : for outstanding achievements in mechanics and its applications.
 
===1976===
* [[Semyon Isaakovich Volfkovich]] : for outstanding achievements in chemistry and the technology of phosphorus and the development of scientific foundations of chemicalization of agriculture in the USSR.
* [[Herman Klare]] (full member of the Academy of Sciences of the German Democratic Republic) : for outstanding achievements in the chemistry and technology of man-made fibers.
 
===1977===
* [[Mikhail Alekseevich Lavrentiev]] : for outstanding achievements in mathematics and mechanics.
* [[Linus Carl Pauling]] (member of the US National Academy of Sciences) : for outstanding achievements in chemistry and biochemistry.
 
===1978===
* [[Anatolii Petrovich Aleksandrov]] : for outstanding achievements in nuclear science and technology.
* [[Alexander Robertus Todd]] (professor, president of the Royal Society of Great Britain) : for outstanding achievements in organic chemistry.
 
===1979===
* [[Aleksandr Oparin|Aleksandr Ivanovich Oparin]] : for outstanding achievements in biochemistry.
* [[Béla Szőkefalvi-Nagy]] (full member of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences) : for outstanding achievements in mathematics.
 
===1980===
* [[Boris Yevgenevich Paton]] : for outstanding achievements in metallurgy and metal technology.
* [[Jaroslav Kožešník]] (full member of the Czechoslovak Academy of Sciences) : for outstanding achievements in applied mathematics and mechanics.
 
===1981===
* [[Vladimir Aleksandrovich Kotelnikov]] : for outstanding achievements in [[radiophysics]], [[radio engineering]] and [[electronics]].
* [[Pavle Savić]] (full member of the Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts, Socialist Federative Republic of Yugoslavia) : for outstanding achievements in chemistry and physics.
 
===1982===
* [[Julii Borisovich Khariton]] : for outstanding achievements in physics.
* [[Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin]] (professor, member of the London Royal Society) : for outstanding achievements in biochemistry and crystal chemistry.
 
===1983===
* [[Andrei Lvovich Kursanov]] : for outstanding achievements in physiology and biochemistry of plants.
* [[Abdus Salam]] (professor, Pakistan) : for outstanding achievements in physics.
 
===1984===
* [[Nikolai Nikolaevich Bogolyubov]] : for outstanding achievements in mathematics and theoretical physics.
* [[Rudolf Mössbauer]] (professor, Federal Republic of Germany) : for outstanding achievements in physics.
 
===1985===
* [[Mikhail Aleksandrovich Sadovsky]] (Soviet academician): for outstanding achievements in geology and geophysics.
* [[Guillermo Haro]] (professor, Mexico) : for outstanding achievements in astrophysics.
 
===1986===
* [[Svyatoslav Fyodorov|Svyatoslav Nikolaevich Fyodorov]] : for outstanding achievements in ophthalmology and eye microsurgery.
* {{ill|Josef Říman|cs}} (academician, Chairman of the Czechoslovak Academy of Sciences) : for outstanding achievements in biochemistry.
 
===1987===
* [[Aleksandr Mikhailovich Prokhorov]] : for outstanding achievements in physics.
* [[John Bardeen]] (professor, United States) : for outstanding achievements in physics.
 
===1988===
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===2005===
* [[Yuri Osipyan|Yuri Andreevich Ossipyan]]: for outstanding achievements in solid state physics.
* [[Peter Hirsch (metallurgist)|Peter Hirsch]] (professor, Great Britain): for outstanding achievements in solid state physics.
 
===2006===
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===2010===
* [[Spartak Belyaev|Spartak Timofeevich Belyaev]] : for outstanding contributions in physics.
* [[Gerard 't Hooft]] (professor, Netherlands): for outstanding contributions in physics.
 
===2011===
* [[Vladimir Alexandrovich Tartakovsky]] : for outstanding contributions in chemistry.
* [[Roald Hoffmann]] (professor, United States): for outstanding contributions in chemistry.
 
===2012===
* [[Gleb Vsevolodovich Dobrovolsky]] : for outstanding contribution in the field of soil science.
* [[Richard Warren Arnold]] (professor, United States): for his outstanding contribution to the development of theoretical and applied soil science and modeling the behavior of soils in different landscapes of the world.
 
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=== 2017 ===
* [[Yuri Oganessian|Yuri Tsolakovich Oganesyan]]: for fundamental research in the field of interaction of complex nuclei and experimental confirmation of the hypothesis of the existence of "stability islands" of superheavy elements.
* [https://www.chalmers.se/en/staff/Pages/bjorn-jonson.aspx[Björn Jonson (physicist)|Björn Jonson]] (professor, Sweden): for work of a fundamental nature, which are of fundamental importance for the study of the nuclear structure and nuclear stability of exotic lightest nuclei at the boundaries of nucleon stability.
 
=== 2018 ===
* [[Joseph Isaevich Gitelzon]]: for the justification and development of the ecological direction of biophysics, which has achieved a number of outstanding fundamental and practical results, in particular in marine and laboratory studies of bioluminescence.
* [[Martin Chalfie]] (professor, United States): for developing new methods for bioluminescent analysis using GFP luminescent protein.
 
=== 2019 ===
* [[Georgy Golitsyn|Georgy Sergeyevich Golitsyn]]: for outstanding contribution to the study of the physics of the earth's atmosphere and planets and the development of the theory of climate and its changes.
* [[Paul J. Crutzen|Paul Jozef Crutzen]] (professor, Netherlands): for outstanding contribution to chemistry atmosphere and assessment of the role of [[biogeochemical cycle]]s in the climate formation.
 
=== 2020 ===
* [[Sergey Petrovich Novikov]]: for a leading role in the revival of modern topology in our country, solving fundamental problems of topology, the theory of nonlinear waves, quantum mechanics and field theory.
* [[John Willard Milnor]] (professor, United States): for the discovery of non-standard smooth structures on multidimensional spheres, solving fundamental problems of topology and the theory of dynamical systems.
 
=== 2021 ===
* [[Georgy Pavlovich Georgiev]]: for classical works on the study of the structure and expression of the genome of higher eukaryotes.
* [[Richard John Roberts]] (professor, Great Britain): for his great contribution to the study of pro- and eukaryotic genomes, RNA splicing, gene identification restriction enzymes and methylases.<ref>[http://www.ras.ru/news/news_release.aspx?ID=72609491-fb8d-4235-97a2-0853af546268 Lomonosov Gold Medal 2021](in Russian)</ref>
 
=== 2022 ===
* [[Yuri Victorovich Natochin]] for studying the mechanism of water-salt metabolism in astronauts and ways to normalize it in stroke.
* [[Denis Noble]] for developing a mathematical model of the electrical phenomena of the heart.<ref>[https://www.ras.ru/news/shownews.aspx?id=8caa02a0-74b3-40c8-86a5-09200303a8b2 Lomonosov Gold Medal 2022](in Russian)</ref>
 
== See also ==
* [[List of general science and technology awards]]
* [[Prizes named after people]]
 
== References ==
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*[http://www.ras.ru/about/awards/awdlist.aspx?awdid=1 Winners of Lomonosov Gold Medal (in Russian)] second source
*[http://www.ras.ru/rasawards/b289ac9a-9d5c-4c0f-bde8-9567088d0546.aspx Lomonosov Gold Medal with pictures (in Russian)]
 
==See also==
*[[List of science and technology awards]]
*[[Prizes named after people]]
 
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