Vitaly Ginzburg - Honors and Awards

Honors and Awards

This article incorporates information from the equivalent article on the Russian Wikipedia.

• Stalin Prize in 1953
• Lenin Prize in 1966
• Gold Medal of the Royal Astronomical Society in 1991
• Wolf Prize in Physics in 1994/5
• Lomonosov Gold Medal in 1995 - for outstanding achievement in the field of theoretical physics and astrophysics
• Nobel Prize in Physics in 2003, together with Alexei Alexeevich Abrikosov and Anthony James Leggett for their "pioneering contributions to the theory of superconductors and superfluids"

• Order of Merit for the Fatherland;
  • 1st class (4 October 2006) - for outstanding contribution to the development of national science and many years of fruitful activity
  • 3rd class (3 October 1996) - for outstanding scientific achievements and the training of highly qualified personnel
• Order of Lenin (1954)
• Order of the Red Banner of Labour, twice (1956, 1986)
• Order of the Badge of Honour, twice (1954, 1975)
• Medal "For Valiant Labour in the Great Patriotic War 1941-1945" (1946)
• Medal "In Commemoration of the 800th Anniversary of Moscow" (1948)
• Medal "For Valiant Labour. To commemorate the 100th anniversary of the birth of Vladimir Ilyich Lenin" (1970)
• Vavilov Gold Medal (1995) - for outstanding work in physics, including a series of papers on the theory of radiation by uniformly moving sources