Gennady Mesyats


Gennady Andreyevich Mesyats is a Russian physicist, founder of several scientific schools — high-current electronics and pulse electrophysics, one of the acknowledged world leaders in these areas.
He has been a vice-president of the Russian Academy of Sciences since 1987 and a director of the Lebedev Physical Institute since 2004. He was announced as the recipient of the IEEE Marie Sklodowska-Curie Award for 2012.

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