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The Friedmann Prize is a Soviet and Russian physics prize, awarded for outstanding work in cosmology and gravity. [1] It is named after the Russian cosmologist Alexander Alexandrovich Friedmann.

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Between 1972 and 1990 the prize was awarded by the USSR Academy of Sciences for the best scientific work in the field of meteorology. [2] It was re-established by the Russian Academy of Sciences in 1993. [3] It is generally awarded to a single scientist once every three years.

Recipients

Source: [1]

YearWinnerRecognition
1972 Ilya Afanasievich Kibel  [ ru ]For his monograph "Introduction to the hydrodynamic methods of short-term weather forecasting" (published in 1957) and a series of works on dynamic meteorology published in 1958-1970
1975 Gury Marchuk For a series of works in the field of hydrodynamic methods of weather forecasting and physics of atmospheric processes
1978 Yekaterina Nikitichna Blinova  [ ru ]For the series of works: "Dynamics of atmospheric motions at planetary scale: the hydrodynamic long-term weather forecast and the theory of climate"
1981 Mikhel Aizikovich Yudin For a series of works on hydrodynamic and statistical methods for forecasting meteorological fields
1984 Alexander Obukhov For a series of works on large-scale atmospheric dynamics
1990 Georgy Golitsyn For a series of studies on general atmospheric circulation and convection
1993 Dymnikov, Valentin Pavlovich  [ ru ]For a series of papers on the theory of large-scale atmospheric processes and climate theory
Andrei Monin
Aleksandr Nikolayevich Filatov
1996 Alexei Starobinsky For a series of papers on the theory of the Deutter (inflation) stage in the early universe and its observational manifestations
1999 Valery Rubakov For the series of works: "Formation of the baryon asymmetry of the universe"
Vadim Kuzmin
2002 Rashid Sunyaev For a series of works: "The effect of reducing the brightness of the background radiation in the direction of galaxy clusters"
Yakov Borisovich Zel'dovich
2005 Kirill Zybin  [ ru ]For the series of works: "Nonlinear theory of gravitational instability of a dissipationless cold matter and formation of a large-scale structure of the universe"
Aleksandr Gurevich
2008 Vladimir Nikolayevich Lukash For the series of works: "The creation of density perturbations in the Friedmann universe"
2011 Alexander Dmitrievich Dolgov For the series of works: "Application of methods of quantum field theory and elementary particle physics in cosmology"
2014 Igor Dmitriyevich Novikov For a series of works on the analysis of processes in the expanding universe, the determination of the parameters of quasars and the physics of black holes
2017 Igor Ivanovich Tkachev  [ ru ]For the series of works: "New directions in the cosmology of the early and modern universe"
Andrey Olegovich Barvinsky  [ ru ]
Aleksandr Yuryevich Kamenshik
2020 Vladimir Gdalevich Kurt for the cycle of works "Recombination of hydrogen in the hot model of the Universe"

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References

  1. 1 2 "Премия имени А.А. Фридмана" [A. A. Friedmann Prize]. Russian Academy of Sciences (in Russian). Retrieved 25 September 2018.
  2. "КОНКУРСЫ" [COMPETITIONS](doc). Russian Academy of Sciences (in Russian). 1974. Retrieved 25 September 2018. Академия наук СССР объявила конкурс на соискание премии им. А. А. Фридмана в размере 2000 руб., присуждаемой советским ученым за лучшие научные работы в области метеорологии. [The Academy of Sciences of the USSR announced a competition for the A. A. Friedman Prize in the amount of 2000 rubles, awarded to Soviet scientists for the best scientific work in the field of meteorology.]
  3. "Постановление Президиума Российская Академии Наук от 23 февраля 1993 г. №47, О золотых медалях и премиях имени выдающихся ученых, присуждаемых Российской академией наук" [Decree of the Presidium of the Russian Academy of Sciences of February 23, 1993 No. 47, On gold medals and prizes named after outstanding scientists awarded by the Russian Academy of Sciences]. Russian Academy of Sciences (in Russian). 23 February 1993. Retrieved 25 September 2018.

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