Gennady Mesyats

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]

Gennady Mesyats
Геннадий Месяц
Mesyats (left) in 1971
Born	Gennady Andreyevich Mesyats (1936-02-29) 29 February 1936 (age 89) 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

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)