Sakharov gold medal

The Sakharov Gold Medal ( Russian Золотая медаль имени А.Д. Сахарова ) was named after the Russian physicist Andrei Dmitrijewitsch Sakharov . Since 1996 it has been awarded every five years by the Russian Academy of Sciences to a Russian or foreign scientist for outstanding achievements in nuclear physics , elementary particle physics or cosmology .

Award winners

• 1996 Yefim Samoilowitsch Fradkin
• 2001 Vladimir Sergeyevich Imschennik
• 2006 Radi Ivanovich Ilkajew
• 2011 Mikhail Evgenyevich Shaposhnikov
• 2016 Alexei Alexandrovich Starobinsky

Web links

• AD Sakharov gold medal. Russian Academy of Sciences, accessed April 28, 2018 (in Russian).