List of Moscow State University people

The list of Moscow State University people includes notable alumni, non-graduates, and faculty affiliated with the Lomonosov Moscow State University (also known as "Moscow State University"). A fuller list is available as a category.

Notable awards recipients

Nobel laureates

Alexey Abrikosov, MS 1948^[1] - Soviet-Russian-American physicist; Nobel laureate in Physics in 2003
Ilya Frank - professor of physics; Nobel Prize in Physics in 1958
Vitaly Ginzburg, MS 1938,^[2] PhD 1942 - physicist; Nobel laureate in Physics in 2003
Mikhail Gorbachev, MA 1955^[3] - Head of State of the Soviet Union; winner of Nobel Peace Prize in 1990
Pyotr Kapitsa - professor of physics; Nobel laureate in Physics in 1978
Lev Landau - professor of physics;^[4] Nobel laureate in Physics in 1962
Boris Pasternak, MA 1913^[5] - writer, Nobel Prize in Literature in 1958
Alexander Prokhorov - Australian-Soviet-Russian professor of physics; Nobel Prize in Physics in 1964
Andrei Sakharov, MS 1942 - nuclear physicist; winner of the Nobel Peace Prize in 1975
Nikolay Semyonov - professor of chemistry;^[6] Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1956
Igor Tamm, MS 1918^[7] - physicist; winner of the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1958

Fields Medal laureates

Vladimir Drinfeld (attended 1969–1974) - Soviet-American mathematician; winner of the Fields Medal in 1990; Harry Pratt Judson Distinguished Service Professor at the University of Chicago
Maxim Kontsevich (attended 1980–1985)^[8] - Russian-French mathematician; winner of the Fields Medal in 1998
Grigory Margulis, PhD 1970 - Russian-American mathematician; Erastus L. De Forest Professor of Mathematics at Yale University;^[9] winner of the Fields Medal in 1978
Sergei Novikov, BA 1960^[10] - mathematician; winner of the Fields Medal in 1970
Andrei Okounkov, PhD 1995 - mathematician; winner of the Fields Meda] in 2006; Professor of Mathematics at Princeton University^[11]
Vladimir Voevodsky (attended 1982) - Russian-American mathematician

Turing Award laureates

C. A. R. Hoare (attended as graduate student) - British computer scientist; winner of Turing Award in 1980

Literature, journalism and philosophy

Alexander Boot – lecturer on English literature who became a journalist and author in London
Sergei Bulgakov - Russian Orthodox theologian, philosopher and economist
Pyotr Chaadaev - philosopher
Boris Chicherin - jurist and political philosopher
Anton Chekhov - short story writer and playwright
Ekaterina Dashkova - major figure of the Russian Enlightenment
Semyon Desnitsky - lawyer; introduced the ideas of Adam Smith to the Russian public
Pavel Florensky - philosopher, Russian Orthodox theologian, historian
Alexander Griboedov - writer, diplomat
Yelena Khanga - journalist, writer, talk show host
Sofokli Lazri - Albanian journalist and diplomat
Mikhail Lermontov - poet, writer
Merab Mamardashvili - philosopher
Alpesh Patel - philosopher
Musa Muradov - journalist
Nitipoom Navaratna - columnist
Aleksey Pisemsky - novelist and dramatist
Anna Politkovskaya - journalist, human rights activist
Vasily Rozanov - writer and philosopher
Varlam Shalamov - writer, author of books on Soviet labor camps
Dmitry Strelnikoff - poet, essayist, novelist
Vladimir Toporov - philologist
Nikolai Trubetzkoy - linguist and historian
Ivan Turgenev - writer
Maximilian Voloshin - poet

Academics

Astronomy

Alexander Salomonovich - radio astronomer

Chemistry

Nikolay Emanuel - specialist in chemical kinetics and mechanics of chemical reactions
Aleksandr Oparin - biochemist
Natalia Shustova - Professor of Chemistry
Nguyen Dinh Duc - researcher of composite materials in Vietnam
Nikolay Semyonov - professor of chemistry; Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1956

Computer science

Georgy Adelson-Velsky - Soviet-Israeli inventor of AVL tree algorithm; developer of Kaissa (the first World Computer Chess Champion)
C. A. R. Hoare - British computer scientist; winner of Turing Award in 1980
Alexander Stepanov - Russian-American, known for C++ Standard Template Library

Economics

Sergey Glazyev - economist, politician
Yuri Maltsev - Austrian School economist

Engineering

Klaudia Sergejewna Kildisheva (1917 - 1994),aviation engineer and H ero of Socialist Labor
Victor Lyatkher (1933), renewable energy engineer

Geosciences

Boris Fedtschenko - botanist
Naomi Feinbrun-Dothan - Russian-Israeli botanist
Boris Kozo-Polyansky - botanist and evolutionary biologist
Grigori Gamburtsev - seismologist
Grigorii Kozhevnikov - entomologist

History

Zalpa Bersanova - Chechen ethnographer and author
Anatoly Bokschanin - historian of Rome, professor
Vladimir Guerrier - historian and founder of higher education for women in Russia
Vasily Klyuchevsky - historian
Nikolai Mashkin - historian of Rome, professor
Suleyman Aliyarli - Azeri historian and Turkologist
Sigurd Schmidt - historian, ethnographer
Alec Rasizade - American historian and political scientist

Linguistics and philology

Victor Bayda - linguist
Ahmet Cevat Emre - Turkish linguist
Margalit Finkelberg - Belarusian-Israeli historian and linguist
Vyacheslav Ivanov - philologist
Yuri Knorozov - Russian linguist, epigrapher and ethnographer
Anatoly Moskvin - academic and linguist, arrested in 2011 after the bodies of 26 mummified young women were discovered in his home.

Mathematics

Pavel Alexandrov - mathematician
Vladimir Arnold - mathematician
Grigory Barenblatt - mathematician
Felix Berezin - mathematician and physicist
Joseph Bernstein - Israeli mathematician
Pafnuty Chebyshev - mathematician
Boris Demidovich - mathematician
Vladimir Drinfeld - Soviet-American mathematician; winner of the Fields Medal 1990
Messoud Efendiev - mathematician
Gregory Eskin - Russian-Israeli-American mathematician
Dmitry Fuchs - Russian-American mathematician
Israel Gelfand - Soviet-American mathematician
Victor Ginzburg - Russian American mathematician
Gu Chaohao - Chinese mathematician
Anatole Katok - American mathematician
Mstislav Keldysh - mathematician; President of the USSR Academy of Sciences 1961–1975
Tanya Khovanova - Soviet-American mathematician
Faina Mihajlovna Kirillova - mathematician and control theorist
Andrey Kolmogorov - mathematician
Maxim Kontsevich - mathematician; winner of the Fields Medal in 1998
Boris Korenblum - Soviet-Israeli-American mathematician
Grigory Landsberg - physicist
Leonid Levin - Soviet-American mathematician and computer scientist
Vladimir Levenshtein - mathematician
Boris Levit - mathematician
Nikolai Luzin - mathematician
Grigory Margulis - Russian-American mathematician; winner of the Fields Medal 1978
Sergei Novikov - mathematician; winner of the Fields Medal in 1970
Andrei Okounkov - mathematician; winner of the Fields Medal in 2006
Alexander Moiseevich Olevskii - Russian-Israeli mathematician
Olga Oleinik - mathematician
Ivan Petrovsky - mathematician
Abraham Plessner - mathematician
Leonid Polterovich - Russian-Israeli mathematician
Vladimir Rokhlin - mathematician
Yakov Sinai - Russian-American mathematician
Ilya M. Sobol - mathematician
Bella Subbotovskaya - mathematician
Hoang Tuy - Vietnamese mathematician

Paleontology

Alexei Petrovich Pavlov - paleontologist and geologist
Maria Vasillievna Pavlova - paleontologist

Pedagogy

Victor Della-Vos
Alexander Bogomolny, Israeli American mathematician; creator of the mathematical education website Cut-the-Knot

Physics

Alexey Abrikosov - Soviet-Russian-American physicist; Nobel Prize in Physics 2003
Nikolay Bogolyubov - theoretical physicist and mathematician
Ilya Frank - professor of physics; Nobel Prize in Physics 1958
Vitaly Ginzburg - physicist; Nobel Prize in Physics 2003
Pyotr Kapitsa - professor of physics; Nobel Prize in Physics 1978
Lev Landau - professor of physics; Nobel Prize in Physics 1962
Eugene Levich - Russian-Israeli physicist
Andrei Linde - Russian-American physicist
Alexander Prokhorov - professor of physics; Nobel Prize in Physics in 1964
Andrei Sakharov - nuclear physicist; Nobel Peace Prize 1975
Dmitry Shirkov - theoretical physicist
Arsenij Sokolov - theoretical physicist
Igor Tamm - physicist; Nobel Prize in Physics 1958
Igor Ternov - theoretical physicist
Sergei Tyablikov - theoretical physicist
Anatoly Vlasov - physicist
Akiva Moiseevich Yaglom - physicist, mathematician, statistician, and meteorologist
Dmitry Zubarev - theoretical physicist

Fidel Castro Díaz-Balart - Nuclear physicist

Psychology

Georgy Shchedrovitsky
Lev Semenovich Vygotsky - psychologist

Sociology

Georgi Derluguian - sociologist
Yuri Levada - sociologist

Other

Wassily Kandinsky, painter and art theorist

Visual arts

Anna Alchuk - poet and visual artist
Wassily Kandinsky - painter, printmaker and art theorist
Vsevolod Meyerhold - theatre director and producer
Ernst Neizvestny - sculptor, painter, graphic artist, and art philosopher
Vladimir Nemirovich-Danchenko - theatre director, writer
Leonid Pasternak - post-impressionist painter
Vsevolod Pudovkin - film director
Yulia Spiridonova - photographer

Video games

Vadim Gerasimov - co-developer of Tetris

References

^ Kshamata Muktavat; Arun K. Upadhayaya; et al. (2010). Applied Physics. I. K. International Pvt Ltd. p. 553. ISBN 9380578008.
^ Gregersen, Erik (2009). The Universe: A Historical Survey of Beliefs, Theories, and Laws. The Rosen Publishing Group. p. 173. ISBN 1615300554.
^ Testa, David W. Del (2001). Government Leaders, Military Rulers, and Political Activists. Greenwood Publishing Group. p. 70. ISBN 1573561533.
^ Gribbin, J. (1999). Q Is For Quantum: Particle Physics From A-Z. Universities Press. p. 204. ISBN 8173712433.
^ Frank Northen Magill; Alison Aves, eds. (1999). Dictionary of World Biography. Routledge. p. 2899. ISBN 1579580483.
^ Laidler, Keith J. (1987). Chemical Kinetics, 3/E. Pearson Education. p. 513. ISBN 8131709728.
^ Jagdish Mehra; Helmut Rechenberg (1982). The Historical Development of Quantum Theory, Volume 4. Springer. p. 240. ISBN 0387951784.
^ Robert Sanders (1994-10-12). "A Very Pleasurable Universe - Internationally Acclaimed Mathematician Maxim Kontsevich Chooses Berkeley as His Academic Home". The Berkeleyan, University of California, Berkeley.
^ "Yale's Margulis Wins 2005 Wolf Prize for Mathematics". Yale University Office of Public Affairs. 2005-02-23.
^ Elaine McKinnon Riehm; Frances Hoffman (2011). Turbulent Times in Mathematics. American Mathematical Society. p. 216. ISBN 0821869140.
^ "Okounkov wins Fields Medal". The Daily Princetonian. 2006-05-19.
^ Katz, Alan (31 January 2012). "Louis-Dreyfus Widow Chairman Ousts Men Running Commodities Giant". Bloomberg. Retrieved 10 November 2014.

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[2] Gregersen, Erik (2009). The Universe: A Historical Survey of Beliefs, Theories, and Laws. The Rosen Publishing Group. p. 173. ISBN 1615300554.

[3] Testa, David W. Del (2001). Government Leaders, Military Rulers, and Political Activists. Greenwood Publishing Group. p. 70. ISBN 1573561533.

[4] Gribbin, J. (1999). Q Is For Quantum: Particle Physics From A-Z. Universities Press. p. 204. ISBN 8173712433.

[5] Frank Northen Magill; Alison Aves, eds. (1999). Dictionary of World Biography. Routledge. p. 2899. ISBN 1579580483.

[6] Laidler, Keith J. (1987). Chemical Kinetics, 3/E. Pearson Education. p. 513. ISBN 8131709728.

[7] Jagdish Mehra; Helmut Rechenberg (1982). The Historical Development of Quantum Theory, Volume 4. Springer. p. 240. ISBN 0387951784.

[8] Robert Sanders (1994-10-12). "A Very Pleasurable Universe - Internationally Acclaimed Mathematician Maxim Kontsevich Chooses Berkeley as His Academic Home". The Berkeleyan, University of California, Berkeley.

[9] "Yale's Margulis Wins 2005 Wolf Prize for Mathematics". Yale University Office of Public Affairs. 2005-02-23.

[10] Elaine McKinnon Riehm; Frances Hoffman (2011). Turbulent Times in Mathematics. American Mathematical Society. p. 216. ISBN 0821869140.

[11] "Okounkov wins Fields Medal". The Daily Princetonian. 2006-05-19.

[Bloomberg-12] Katz, Alan (31 January 2012). "Louis-Dreyfus Widow Chairman Ousts Men Running Commodities Giant". Bloomberg. Retrieved 10 November 2014.

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