Demidov Prize
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Demidov Prize (Russian: Демидовская премия) used to be a national scientific prize in the Russian Empire awarded annually to the members of the Russian Academy of Sciences. One of the oldest scientific awards in the world, it was restored by the government of the Sverdlovsk Oblast in 1993.
In 1831 Pavel Nikolaevich Demidov, representative of the famous Demidov family, established a scientific prize after his name. The Petersburg Academy of Sciences (now Russian Academy of Sciences) was choisen as an awarding institution. In 1832 the president of the Petersburg Academy of Sciences Sergei Uvarov awarded the first prizes. The Demidov Prize was a national scientific award, the most prestgious in Russia. From 1832 to 1866 The Academy awarded 55 full prizes (5,000 rubles) and 220 part prizes. Among the winners there were many prominent Russian scientists: founder of the field surgery and inventor of the gypsous immobilisation method in treatment of fractures Nikolai Pirogov, seafarer and geographer Ivan Kruzenshtern, creator of the periodic table of elements Dmitri Mendeleev, inventor of the electric engine Boris Yakobi and many others.
Since 1866, in 25 years after Pavel Demidov's death and according to his testament, there were no any awarding ceremony. In 1993 on the initiative of the vice-president of the Russian Academy of Sciences Gennady Mesyats and the governor of the Sverdlovsk Oblast Eduard Rossel the Demidov Prize traditions were restored. The prize is awarded for outstanding achievements in natural sciences and humanities. The winners are elected annually among the members of the Russian Academy of Sciences. According to the tradition every year the Demidov Scientific Foundation choose three or four academicians to receive the award. The prize include a medal, a diploma and $10,000 as a money reward. The awarding ceremony take place every year at the Palace of the Governor of Sverdlovsk Oblast in Yekaterinburg, Russia. The recipients of the Prize also give lectures at the Ural State University (Demidov Lecturing).
The Demidov Prize in one of the most prestigious and oldest scientific awards. Its traditions deeply influenced other awards of this kind including Nobel Prize.
[edit] Winners of full prizes
1832
1833
- A. Vostokov, philology
- F. Reyf, philology
1835
- F. Sidonskiy, philosophy
- N. Bichurin, history
- P. Sokolov, philology
1836
- F. Litke, geography
- N. Brashman, mathematics
- A. Mikhaylovsky-Danilevsky, history
1837
- I. Kruzenshtern, geography
- F. Argelander, astronomy
- N. Ushakov, history
1838
- S. Shoduar, history
1839
- N. Bichurin, philology
- A. Kazembek, philology
- N. Medem, military sciences
1840
1841
1842
1844
- A. Vostokov, philology
- G. Pavsky, philology
- N. Pirogov, medicine
1845
- F. Adelung, geography
1846
1847
- A. Kayzerling, geography
- P. Kruzenshtern, geography
- A. Demidov, geography
- D. Tolstoy, history
- D. Tchubinov, philology
1850
- F. Goremykin, military sciences
1851
- N. Pirogov, medicine
- M. Reyneke, geography
1852
- K. Nevolin, history
- L. Zeddler, military sciences
1853
1854
- M. Bulgakov, teology
- K. Nevolin, history
1855
- D. Zhuravsky, technical sciences
1857
1858
- O. Goshkeviych, philology
1859
- K. Maksimovich, biology
1860
- N. Pirogov, medicine
- F. Dmitriyev, law
1861
1862
- M. Korf, history
- D. Mendeleev, chemistry
1863
- G. Butakov, maritime sciences
1865
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1993
- S. Vonsovsky, physics
- N. Kotchetkov, chemistry
- B. Chesnokov, geology
- V. Yanin, history
- A. Karpov, economics
1994
- B. Rauschenbach, mechanics
- A. Bayev, biology
- P. Kropotkin, geology
- N. Tolstoy, philology
1995
- A. Gaponov-Grekhov, physics
- G. Tolstikov, chemistry
- V. Magnitsky, geophysics
- N. Pokrovsky, history
1996
- N. Krasovsky, mathematics and mechanics
- V. Sokolov, biology
- G. Golitsyn, earth sciences
- E. Chelyshev, philology
1997
- A. Skrinsky, physics
- N. Vatolin, chemistry
- N. Laverov, earth sciences
- A. Zaliznyak, linguistics
1998
- O. Gazenko, biology
- A. Gonchar, mathematics
- V. Sedov, history
- N. Yushkin, earth sciences
1999
- Zh. Alferov, physics
- N. Dobretsov, earth sciences
- V. Tartakovsky, chemistry
2000
- V. Maslov, mathematics
- N. Semikhatov, mechanics
- R. Petrov, earth sciences
- T. Zaslavskaya, economics and sociology
2001
- A. Prokhorov, physics
- V. Kabanov, chemistry [1]
- I. Gramberg, earth sciences [2]
2002
- L. Faddeev, mathematics
- V. Savelyev, medicine [3]
- V. Kudryavtsev, law [4]
- G. Mesyats, physics [5]
2003
2004
- G. Marchuk, mathematics [9]
- V. Bolshakov, biology [10]
- A. Derevyanko, history and archeology [11]
2005
- O. Krokhin, physics [12]
- N. Lyakishev, physicochemistry [13]
- A. Kontorovich, earth sciences [14]
2006
