Gury Marchuk

Gury Ivanovich Marchuk (Russian: Гурий Иванович Марчук) (b. 1925 in Orenburg Oblast, Russia) is a prominent Soviet/Russian scientist in the fields of computational mathematics, and physics of atmosphere. Academician (since 1968); the President of the USSR Academy of Sciences in 1986–1991. Among his notable prizes are the USSR State Prize (1979), Demidov Prize (2004), Lomonosov Gold Medal (2004).

Honours and awards

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

• Hero of Socialist Labour (1975)
• Honorary Citizen of Obninsk (1985)
• Four Orders of Lenin (1967, 1971, 1975, 1985)
• Keldysh Gold Medal - for his work "The development and creation of new methods of mathematical modeling" (1981)
• Karpinski International Prize (1988)
• Chebyshev Gold Medal - for outstanding performance in mathematics (1996)
• Lomonosov Gold Medal (Moscow State University, 2004) - for his outstanding contribution to the creation of new models and methods for solving problems in the physics of nuclear reactors, the physics of the atmosphere and ocean, and immunology
• Cavalier silver sign "Property of Siberia"
• Lenin Prize in Science (1961)
• Friedman Prize (1975)
• USSR State Prize (1979)
• State Prize of the Russian Federation (2000)
• Demidov Prize (2004)
• Honorary Doctorates of the University of Toulouse (1973), Charles University (Prague, 1978), Dresden University of Technology (1978), Technical University of Budapest (1978)
• Foreign Member of the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences (1977), German Academy of Sciences at Berlin (1977), Czechoslovak Academy of Sciences (1977), Polish Academy of Sciences (1988)
• Order of Merit for the Fatherland, 2nd and 4th classes
• Jubilee Medal "300th Anniversary of Russian Navy"
• Medal for the Victory Over Germany in the Great Patriotic War 1941–1945
• Valiant Labour in the Great Patriotic War of 1941–1945 Medal
• Commander of the Legion of Honour
• Order of Georgi Dimitrov

External links

• Scientific biography (in Russian) [1].