Andrey Gaponov-Grekhov

Andrei Gaponov-Grekhov
Андрей Гапонов-Грехов
Gaponov-Grekhov in 2010
Born(1926-06-07)7 June 1926
Died2 June 2022(2022-06-02) (aged 95)
Moscow, Russia
CitizenshipUSSR, Russia
AwardsDemidov Prize (1995)
Lomonosov Gold Medal (2000)
Scientific career
Fieldsphysics
InstitutionsUNN
Doctoral advisorAleksandr Andronov

Andrei Viktorovich Gaponov-Grekhov (Russian: Андрей Викторович Гапонов-Грехов; 7 June 1926 – 2 June 2022) was a Russian (Soviet) physicist, a Full Member of the USSR Academy of Sciences (1968, a Full Member of the Russian Academy of Sciences since 1991), the founder of the Institute of Applied Physics in Nizhny Novgorod, and its first director in 1976-2003.

Hero of Socialist Labor (1986). Laureate of two State Prizes of the USSR (1967 and 1983) and the State Prize of the Russian Federation (2003).