Demidov Prize

Demidov Prize
A golden medallion of 1831 Award
A golden medallion of 1831 Award
Awarded fornational scientific prize in Russia awarded annually to the members of the Russian Academy of Sciences
Country
Presented by
Reward(s)A gold medal, a diploma, and a monetary award of 1 million ₽(Rubles)
First awarded1831; 193 years ago (1831)
Number of laureates367 prizes (as of 2019)
Websitedemidov.uran.ru

The Demidov Prize (Russian: Демидовская премия) is a national scientific prize in Russia awarded annually to the members of the Russian Academy of Sciences. Originally awarded from 1832 to 1866 in the Russian Empire, it was revived by the government of Russia's Sverdlovsk Oblast in 1993. In its original incarnation it was one of the first annual scientific awards, and its traditions influenced other awards of this kind including the Nobel Prize.

History

Pavel Nikolaievich Demidov, the founder of the prize

In 1831 Count Pavel Nikolaievich Demidov, representative of the famous Demidov family, established a scientific prize in his name. The Saint Petersburg Academy of Sciences (now the Russian Academy of Sciences) was chosen as the awarding institution. In 1832 the president of the Petersburg Academy of Sciences, Sergei Uvarov, awarded the first prizes.

From 1832 to 1866 the Academy awarded 55 full prizes (5,000 rubles) and 220 part prizes. Among the winners were many prominent Russian scientists: the founder of field surgery and inventor of the plaster immobilisation method in treatment of fractures, Nikolai Pirogov; the seafarer and geographer Adam Johann von Krusenstern, who led the first russian circumnavigation of the globe; Dmitri Mendeleev, the creator of the periodic table of elements; Boris Jacobi, pioneer of the first usable electric motors; and many others. One of the recipients was the founder's younger brother, Count Anatoly Nikolaievich Demidov, 1st Prince of San Donato, in 1847; Pavel had died in 1840, making Anatoly the Count Demidov (note that Russia did not recognize Anatoly's Italian title of prince).

From 1866, 25 years after Count Demidov's death, as was according to the terms of his bequest, there were no more awards.

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 chooses three or four academicians to receive the award. The prize includes a medal, a diploma and $10,000. The awards ceremony takes place every year at the Governor's Palace of Sverdlovsk Oblast, in Yekaterinburg, Russia. The recipients of the Prize also give lectures at the Ural State University (Demidov Lecture).

Winners (1832-1866)

Year Portrait Recipient(s) Field(s) Ref
1832 Magnus Georg Paucker Physics
Julius Hagemeister Economics
1833 Aleksandr Vostokov Philology
Carl Philipp Reiff Philology
1835 Fr Theodore Sidonsky Philosophy
Archimandrite Hyacinth
(Nikita Bichurin)
History
Pyotr Sokolov [ru; de] Philology
1836 Friedrich Benjamin Lütke Geography
Nikolaus Braschmann Mathematics
Alexander Mikhailovsky-Danilevsky History
1837 Adam Johann von Krusenstern Geography
Friedrich Wilhelm Argelander Astronomy
Nikolay Ustryalov History
1838 Stanislav Chaudoir History
1839 Archimandrite Hyacinth
(Nikita Bichurin)
Philology
Alexander Kazembek Philology
Nikolai Medem Military sciences
1840 Mikhail Pogodin Philology
David Chubinashvili Philology
Boris Jacobi Physics
1841 Alexander Postels Biology
Franz Josef Ruprecht Biology
1842 Ferdinand von Wrangel Geography
1844 Chaim Zelig Slonimski Inventions
Aleksandr Vostokov Philology
Fr Gerasim Pavsky Philology
Nikolai Pirogov Medicine
1845 Friedrich von Adelung Geography
1846 Aleksey Savich Astronomy
Józef Kowalewski Philology
Karl Ernst Claus Chemistry
1847 Alexander Keyserling Geography
Paul von Krusenstern Geography
Count Anatoly Demidov Geography
Dmitry Tolstoy History
David Chubinashvili Philology
1848 Johan Jakob Nervander Meteorology
1849 Pafnuty Chebyshev Mathematics
1850 Fyodor Goremykin Military sciences
1851 Nikolai Pirogov Medicine
Michael Reinecke Geography
1852 Konstantin Nevolin History
Loggin Seddeler Military sciences
1853 Dmitry Milyutin History
1854 Metropolitan Macarius
(Mikhail Bulgakov)
Theology
Konstantin Nevolin History
1855 Dmitrii Ivanovich Zhuravskii Technical sciences
1857 Nikolai Turchaninov Biology
Heinz Christian Pander Geography
1858 Iosif Goshkevich Philology
1859 Carl Johann Maximovich Biology
1860 Nikolai Pirogov Medicine
Fyodor Dmitriyev Law
1861 Pyotr Pekarsky Philology
Modest Bogdanovich History
1862 Modest von Korff History
Dmitri Mendeleev Chemistry
1863 Grigory Butakov Maritime sciences
1865 Friedrich von Smitt History
Ludwig Schwarz Geodesy

Winners (from 1993)

Year Portrait Recipient(s) Field(s) Ref
1993 Sergei Vonsovsky Physics
Nikolay Kochetkov Chemistry
Boris Chesnokov [ru; de] Geology
Valentin Yanin History
Anatoly Karpov [ru] Economics
1994 Boris Rauschenbach Mechanics
Aleksandr Bayev [ru; tt; de] Biology
Pyotr Kropotkin Geology
Nikita Tolstoy [ru; de; fr] Philology
1995 Andrei Viktorovich Gaponov-Grekhov Physics
Genrich Tolstikov [ru; de; ba] Chemistry
Vladimir Magnitsky [ru; de; ka] Geophysics
Nikolai Pokrovsky [ru] History
1996 Nikolay Krasovsky Mathematics and mechanics
Vladimir Sokolov Biology
Georgy Golitsyn Earth sciences
Yevgeni Chelyshev Philology
1997 Alexander Skrinsky Physics
Nikolay Vatolin Chemistry
Nikolai Laverov [ru; de] Earth sciences
Andrey Zaliznyak Linguistics
1998 Oleg Gazenko Biology
Andre Gonchar Mathematics
Valentin Sedov [ru; de; lv] History
Nikolai Yushkin [ru; de] Earth sciences
1999 Zhores Alferov Physics
Nikolai Dobretsov [ru; de] Earth sciences
Vladimir Tartakovsky [ru; de] Chemistry
2000 Victor Maslov Mathematics
Nikolai Semikhatov [ru; de] Mechanics
Rem Petrov [ru] Earth sciences
Tatyana Zaslavskaya Economics and sociology
2001 Aleksandr Prokhorov Physics
Viktor Kabanov [ru; de] Chemistry
Igor Gramberg [ru; de] Earth sciences
2002 Ludvig Faddeev Mathematics
Viktor Savelyev Medicine
Vladimir Kudryavtsev [ru; tg] Law
Gennady Mesyats Physics
2003 Boris Litvinov [ru; de] Physics
Irina Beletskaya Chemistry
Oleg Bogatikov [ru; de] Earth sciences
2004 Gury Marchuk Mathematics
Vladimir Bolshakov [ru] Biology
Anatoly Derevyanko History and archeology
2005 Oleg Krokhin [ru; de] Physics
Nikolai Lyakishev [ru; de] Physicochemistry
Alexei Kontorovich [ru; de] Earth sciences
2006 Timur Eneev Mathematics
Veniamin Alekseyev [ru] History
Vladimir Kulakov [ru] Medicine
2007 Boris Kovalchuk [ru; de] Physics
Oleg Chupakhin [ru; de] Chemistry
Mikhail Ivanovich Kuzmin [ru; de] Earth science
2008 Yevgeny Mishchenko [ru; de] Mathematics
Anatoly Grigoriev Medicine
Valery Makarov [ru; de] Economics
2009 Yury Kagan [ru; de] Physics
Dmitry Rundkvist [ru; de] Earth science
Yury Tretyakov [ru; de] Chemistry
Alexey Olovnikov Biology
2010 Yury Osipov Mathematics
Gennady Sakovich [ru; de] Chemistry
Serhiy Alexeyev [ru; uk] Humanities
2011 Alexander Andreev Physics
Yury Zhuravlyov [ru] Biology
Vladimir Kotlyakov [ru; de; fr] Earth science
2012 Yevgeny Primakov Social science
Ilya Moiseev Chemistry
Yevgeny Avrorin Physics
2013 Yuri Yershov Mathematics
Alexander Spirin Biology
Kliment Troubetzkoy [ru] Mining
2014 Nikolai Kardashev astrophysics
Oleg Nefyodov [ru; de] chemistry
Bagrat Sandukhadze [ru] Wheat breeding
2015 Mikhail Marov Space exploration
Rostislav Karpov [ru] Cardiology
Viktor Koroteyev [ru; de] Palaeovolcanology
2016 Yury A. Zolotov [ru; de] Analytical chemistry
Vyacheslav I. Molodin [ru; de] Archaeology
Valery Rubakov Fundamental physics
2017 Vladimir Fortov Physics
Gennady Alekseyevich Romanenko [ru; de] Agrarian sciences
Vladimir Skulachev Bioenergetics
2019 Yuri Oganessian Nuclear physics
Alexander Chibilev
Vyacheslav Rozhnov
Eduard Rossel
2020 Viktor Sadovnichiy Mathematics
Leopold Igorevich Leontiev Metallurgy
Anatoly Torkunov International relations

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