{{short description|Russian physicist}} {{Infobox scientist | name = Gennady Mesyats | native_name = Геннадий Месяц | native_name_lang = ru | image = Gennady Mesyats.jpg | image_size = | caption = Mesyats in 2024 | birth_name = Gennady Andreyevich Mesyats | birth_date = {{Birth date and age|1936|2|29|df=y}} | birth_place = [[Kemerovo]], [[West Siberian Krai]], [[Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic|RSFSR]], [[Soviet Union]] | death_date = <!-- {{Death date and age|YYYY|MM|DD|YYYY|MM|DD}} (death date then birth date) --> | death_place = | citizenship = USSR<br>Russia | nationality = | field = [[Physics]] of [[Plasma (physics)|plasma]] | work_institution = [[Lebedev Physical Institute]] | alma_mater = [[Tomsk Polytechnic University]] | doctoral_advisor = [[Lev Sena]] | doctoral_students = | known_for = High-current electronics emission, Nanosecond pulse sources, Injection gas electronics, Ectons | footnotes = }} '''Gennady Andreyevich Mesyats''' ({{langx|ru|Геннадий Андреевич Месяц}}, born 29 February 1936) is a Soviet and Russian physicist, founder of several scientific schools — high-current electronics and pulse electrophysics, one of the acknowledged world leaders in these areas.<ref name="a">{{cite book|url=https://www.morebooks.de/store/gb/book/gennady-mesyats/isbn/978-620-1-23496-3|title=Gennady Mesyats|work=Kemerovo, Lebedev Physical Institute, IEEE Marie Sklodowska-Curie Award, Russia|date=2012-06-24|accessdate=20 August 2018|isbn=9786201234963|publisher=Loc}}</ref><ref name="hdoctors">{{cite web|url=https://www.en.tsu.ru/about/honorary_doctors.php|title=Honorary Doctors|date=|accessdate=20 August 2018}}{{Dead link|date=August 2025 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}</ref>
He has been a vice-president of the [[Russian Academy of Sciences]] since 1987 and a director of the [[Lebedev Physical Institute]] since 2004.
==Honours and awards== * [[Order "For Merit to the Fatherland"]], 1st class (2024) * Order "For Merit to the Fatherland", 2nd class (2006) * Order "For Merit to the Fatherland", 3rd class (1999) * Order "For Merit to the Fatherland", 4th class (1996) * [[Lenin Komsomol Prize]] (1968) * [[Jubilee Medal "In Commemoration of the 100th Anniversary of the Birth of Vladimir Ilyich Lenin"]] (1970) * [[Order of the Red Banner of Labour]] (1971) * [[USSR State Prize]] (1978) * [[Order of the Badge of Honour]] (1981) * [[Order of Lenin]] (1986) * [[Dyke Award]] (1990)<ref>{{cite web|url=http://isdeiv.lbl.gov/awards.html|title=Dyke Awards|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20160309041152/http://isdeiv.lbl.gov/awards.html|archivedate=9 March 2016|website=isdeiv.lbl.gov}}</ref> * [[State Prize of the Russian Federation|State Prize of the Russian Federation for Science and Technology]] (1998) * [[Demidov Prize]] (2002) * [[Global Energy Prize]] (2003) * [[Legion of Honour]] (2008) * [[Order of Honour (Russia)|Order of Honour]] (2011) * [[IEEE Marie Sklodowska-Curie Award]] (2012) * [[Order of Alexander Nevsky]] (2021)
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==External links== *[http://www.ras.ru/win/db/show_per.asp?P=.id-5.ln-en Gennady Mesyats at the Russian Academy of Sciences website]
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