Semyon Gershtein

Semyon Solomonovich Gershtein (Born July 13, 1929; Harbin) is a Soviet and Russian physicist. He is an academician of Russian Academy of Sciences since 2003. He is a USSR State Prize laureate.

After graduating from the Department of Nuclear Physics (Faculty of Physics) in Moscow State University, he worked at a school in Kaluga Oblast until 1954. In 1955, he entered the graduate school of the Institute for Physical Problems.

He was a senior researcher in the Institute for High Energy Physics. He went on to become a professor of the Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology, Doctor of Physical and Mathematical Sciences (1963).

He has authored more than two hundred publications and several scientific discoveries.

• Order "For Merit to the Fatherland" IV class (2005) — for his great contribution to the development of nuclear energy, a productive scientific activities and many years of conscientious work
• Order of Honour (Russia) (September 25, 1999) — for services to the state, many years of hard work and great contribution to strengthening friendship and cooperation among peoples
• USSR State Prize
• Pomeranchuk Prize from Institute for Theoretical and Experimental Physics (2011)
• Landau Gold Medal (2013)

• "Академику Герштейну Семену Соломоновичу - 80 лет!" (in Russian). Russian Academy of Sciences. Retrieved 20 September 2016. 
• Александр Горский (October 11, 2011). "Лауреаты Премии Померанчука 2011 года" (in Russian). Retrieved 20 September 2016. 
• "Золотая медаль имени Л.Д.Ландау" (in Russian). Russian Academy of Sciences. Retrieved 20 September 2016.