List of Moscow State University people
The list of Moscow State University people includes notable alumni, non-graduates, and faculty affiliated with the Lomonosov Moscow State University (also known as "Moscow State University"). A fuller list is available as a category.
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Notable awards recipients
Nobel laureates
- Alexey Abrikosov, MS 1948[1] - Physicist; Nobel laureate in Physics in 2003
- Ilya Frank - professor of physics; Nobel Prize in Physics in 1958
- Vitaly Ginzburg, MS 1938,[2] PhD 1942 - physicist; Nobel laureate in Physics in 2003
- Mikhail Gorbachev, MA 1955[3] - Head of State of the Soviet Union; winner of Nobel Peace Prize in 1990
- Pyotr Kapitsa - professor of physics; Nobel laureate in Physics in 1978
- Lev Landau - professor of physics;[4] Nobel laureate in Physics in 1962
- Boris Pasternak, MA 1913[5] - writer, Nobel Prize in Literature in 1958
- Alexander Prokhorov - professor of physics; Nobel Prize in Physics in 1964
- Andrei Sakharov, MS 1942 - nuclear physicist; winner of the Nobel Peace Prize in 1975
- Nikolay Semyonov - professor of chemistry;[6] Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1956
- Igor Tamm, MS 1918[7] - physicist; winner of the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1958
Fields Medal laureates
- Vladimir Drinfeld (attended 1969–1974) - mathematician; winner of the Fields Medal in 1990; Harry Pratt Judson Distinguished Service Professor at the University of Chicago
- Maxim Kontsevich (attended 1980–1985)[8] - mathematician; winner of the Fields Medal in 1998
- Grigory Margulis, PhD 1970 - mathematician; Erastus L. DeForest Professor of Mathematics at Yale University;[9] winner of the Fields Medal in 1978
- Sergei Novikov, BA 1960[10] - mathematician; winner of the Fields Medal in 1970
- Andrei Okounkov, PhD 1995 - mathematician; winner of the Fields Medal in 2006; Professor of Mathematics at Princeton University[11]
- Vladimir Voevodsky (attended 1982)
Turing Award laureates
- C. A. R. Hoare (attended as graduate student) - computer scientist; winner of ACM Turing Award in 1980
Literature, journalism and philosophy
Anton Chekhov, Writer
- Sergei Bulgakov - Russian Orthodox theologian, philosopher and economist
- Mitrofan Caspersz - notoriously reclusive public relations advisor and poet
- Pyotr Chaadaev - philosopher
- Boris Chicherin - jurist and political philosopher
- Anton Chekhov - short story writer and playwright
- Ekaterina Dashkova - major figure of the Russian Enlightenment
- Semyon Desnitsky - lawyer; introduced the ideas of Adam Smith to the Russian public
- Pavel Florensky - philosopher, Russian Orthodox theologian, historian
- Alexander Griboedov - writer, diplomat
- Yelena Khanga - journalist, writer, talk show host
- Sofokli Lazri - Albanian journalist and diplomat
- Mikhail Lermontov - poet, writer
- Merab Mamardashvili - philosopher
- Alpesh Patel - philosopher
- Musa Muradov - journalist
- Nitipoom Navaratna - columnist
- Aleksey Pisemsky - novelist and dramatist
- Anna Politkovskaya - journalist, human rights activist
- Vasily Rozanov - writer and philosopher
- Varlam Shalamov - writer, author of books on Soviet labor camps
- Dmitry Strelnikoff - poet, essayist, novelist
- Vladimir Toporov - philologist
- Nikolai Trubetzkoy - linguist and historian
- Ivan Turgenev - writer
- Maximilian Voloshin - poet
Academics
Pyotr Kapitsa, physicist and engineer
Chemistry
- Nikolay Emanuel - specialist in chemical kinetics and mechanics of chemical reactions
- Aleksandr Oparin - biochemist
- Nikolay Semyonov - professor of chemistry; Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1956
Computer science
- Georgy Adelson-Velsky - inventor of AVL tree algorithm; developer of Kaissa (the first World Computer Chess Champion)
- C. A. R. Hoare - computer scientist; winner of ACM Turing Award in 1980
- Alexander Stepanov - known for C++ Standard Template Library
Economics
- Sergey Glazyev - economist, politician
- Yuri Maltsev - Austrian School economist
Geosciences
History
- Zalpa Bersanova - Chechen ethnographer and author
- Anatoly Bokschanin - historian of Rome, professor
- Vladimir Guerrier - historian and founder of higher education for women in Russia
- Vasily Klyuchevsky - historian
- Nikolai Mashkin - historian of Rome, professor
- Sigurd Schmidt - historian, ethnographer
Linguistics and philology
- Vyacheslav Ivanov - philologist
- Yuri Knorozov - Russian linguist, epigrapher and ethnographer
- Anatoly Moskvin - academic and linguist, arrested in 2011 after the bodies of 26 mummified young women were discovered in his home.
Mathematics
- Pavel Alexandrov - mathematician
- Vladimir Arnold - mathematician
- Pafnuty Chebyshev - mathematician
- Boris Demidovich - mathematician
- Vladimir Drinfeld - mathematician; winner of the Fields Medal 1990
- Messoud Efendiev - mathematician
- Israel Gelfand - mathematician
- Gu Chaohao - mathematician
- Mstislav Keldysh - mathematician; President of the USSR Academy of Sciences 1961–1975
- Andrey Kolmogorov - mathematician
- Maxim Kontsevich - mathematician; winner of the Fields Medal in 1998
- Grigory Landsberg - physicist
- Boris Levit - mathematician
- Nikolai Luzin - mathematician
- Grigory Margulis - mathematician; winner of the Fields Medal 1978
- Noor Muhammad - mathematician
- Sergei Novikov - mathematician; winner of the Fields Medal in 1970
- Andrei Okounkov - mathematician; winner of the Fields Medal in 2006
- Olga Oleinik - mathematician
- Ivan Petrovsky - mathematician
- Abraham Plessner - mathematician
- Yakov Sinai - mathematician
- Hoang Tuy - mathematician
Pedagogy
Physics
- Alexey Abrikosov - physicist; Nobel Prize in Physics 2003
- Nikolay Bogolyubov - theoretical physicist and mathematician
- Ilya Frank - professor of physics; Nobel Prize in Physics 1958
- Vitaly Ginzburg - physicist; Nobel Prize in Physics 2003
- Pyotr Kapitsa - professor of physics; Nobel Prize in Physics 1978
- Lev Landau - professor of physics; Nobel Prize in Physics 1962
- Andrei Linde - physicist
- Alexander Prokhorov - professor of physics; Nobel Prize in Physics in 1964
- Andrei Sakharov - nuclear physicist; Nobel Peace Prize 1975
- Dmitry Shirkov - theoretical physicist
- Arsenij Sokolov - theoretical physicist
- Igor Tamm - physicist; Nobel Prize in Physics 1958
- Igor Ternov - theoretical physicist
- Sergei Tyablikov - theoretical physicist
- Anatoly Vlasov - physicist
- Dmitry Zubarev - theoretical physicist
- Igor Zubov - physicist and high school physics teacher
Psychology
- Georgy Shchedrovitsky
- Lev Semenovich Vygotsky - psychologist
Sociology
- Georgi Derluguian - sociologist
- Yuri Levada - sociologist
Other
Wassily Kandinsky, painter and art theorist
Business and finance
- Pyotr Aven
- Oleg Deripaska
- Margarita Louis-Dreyfus, Russian-born French billionaire, chairman of Louis Dreyfus[12]
- Aleksander Mamut
Musicians and actors
- Sergei Bodrov, Jr. - actor
- Nashenas - Afghan musician
- Natalia O'Shea - singer-songwriter
- Elena Zoubareva - opera singer
Visual arts
- Wassily Kandinsky - painter, printmaker and art theorist
- Vsevolod Meyerhold - theatre director and producer
- Vladimir Nemirovich-Danchenko - theatre director, writer
- Vsevolod Pudovkin - film director
Video games
- Vadim Gerasimov - co-developer of Tetris
See also
- Category:Moscow State University alumni
- List of Russian scientists
References
- ↑ Kshamata Muktavat, Muktavat Kshamata Et.Al, Arun. K. Upadhayaya (2010). Applied Physics. I. K. International Pvt Ltd. p. 553. ISBN 9380578008.
- ↑ Gregersen, Erik (2009). The Universe: A Historical Survey of Beliefs, Theories, and Laws. The Rosen Publishing Group. p. 173. ISBN 1615300554.
- ↑ Testa, David W. Del (2001). Government Leaders, Military Rulers, and Political Activists. Greenwood Publishing Group. p. 70. ISBN 1573561533.
- ↑ Gribbin, J. (1999). Q Is For Quantum: Particle Physics From A-Z. Universities Press. p. 204. ISBN 8173712433.
- ↑ edited by Frank Northen Magill, Alison Aves (1999). Dictionary of World Biography. Routledge. p. 2899. ISBN 1579580483.
- ↑ Laidler, Keith J. (1987). Chemical Kinetics, 3/E. Pearson Education. p. 513. ISBN 8131709728.
- ↑ By Jagdish Mehra, Helmut Rechenberg (1982). The Historical Development of Quantum Theory, Volume 4. Springer. p. 240. ISBN 0387951784.
- ↑ Robert Sanders (1994-10-12). "A Very Pleasurable Universe - Internationally Acclaimed Mathematician Maxim Kontsevich Chooses Berkeley as His Academic Home". The Berkeleyan, University of California, Berkeley.
- ↑ "Yale's Margulis Wins 2005 Wolf Prize for Mathematics". Yale University Office of Public Affairs. 2005-02-23.
- ↑ By Elaine McKinnon Riehm, Frances Hoffman (2011). Turbulent Times in Mathematics. American Mathematical Society. p. 216. ISBN 0821869140.
- ↑ "Okounkov wins Fields Medal". The Daily Princetonian. 2006-05-19.
- ↑ Katz, Alan (31 January 2012). "Louis-Dreyfus Widow Chairman Ousts Men Running Commodities Giant". Bloomberg. Retrieved 10 November 2014.
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