Gury Marchuk
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Gury Ivanovich Marchuk (Russian: Гурий Иванович Марчук; borm 1925, Orenburg Oblast, Russia) is a prominent Soviet and Russian scientist in the fields of computational mathematics, and physics of atmosphere. Academician (since 1968); the President of the USSR Academy of Sciences in 1986–1991. Among his notable prizes are the USSR State Prize (1979), Demidov Prize (2004), Lomonosov Gold Medal (2004).
A member of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union since 1947, Academician Marchuk was elected to the Central Committee of the Party as a candidate member in 1976 and as a full member in 1981.[1] He was elected as deputy of the Supreme Soviet of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics in 1979.[1]
[edit] Honours and awards
- This article incorporates information from the equivalent article on the Russian Wikipedia.
- Hero of Socialist Labour (1975)
- Honorary Citizen of Obninsk (1985)
- Four Orders of Lenin (1967, 1971, 1975, 1985)
- Keldysh Gold Medal - for his work "The development and creation of new methods of mathematical modeling" (1981)
- Karpinski International Prize (1988)
- Chebyshev Gold Medal - for outstanding performance in mathematics (1996)
- Lomonosov Gold Medal (Moscow State University, 2004) - for his outstanding contribution to the creation of new models and methods for solving problems in the physics of nuclear reactors, the physics of the atmosphere and ocean, and immunology
- Cavalier silver sign "Property of Siberia"
- Lenin Prize in Science (1961)
- Friedman Prize (1975)
- USSR State Prize (1979)
- State Prize of the Russian Federation (2000)
- Demidov Prize (2004)
- Honorary Doctorates of the University of Toulouse (1973), Charles University (Prague, 1978), Dresden University of Technology (1978), Technical University of Budapest (1978)
- Foreign Member of the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences (1977), German Academy of Sciences at Berlin (1977), Czechoslovak Academy of Sciences (1977), Polish Academy of Sciences (1988)
- Order of Merit for the Fatherland, 2nd and 4th classes
- Jubilee Medal "300th Anniversary of Russian Navy"
- Medal for the Victory Over Germany in the Great Patriotic War 1941–1945
- Valiant Labour in the Great Patriotic War of 1941–1945 Medal
- Commander of the Legion of Honour
- Order of Georgi Dimitrov
[edit] References
- ^ a b Burke, Peter (Ed.) (1988). The Nuclear Weapons World: Who, How & Where. Westport, Connecticut: Greenwood Press. p. 155. ISBN 9780313265907.
[edit] External links
- Scientific biography (in Russian) [1].
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| Preceded by Anatoly Alexandrov |
President of the Academy of Sciences of the USSR 1986–1991 |
Succeeded by Yury Osipov |
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