Zeldovich Medals

The Zeldovich Medals are conferred by the Russian Academy of Sciences and COSPAR to young scientists for excellence and achievements. They honor the memory of the distinguished astrophysicist Academician Yakov B. Zeldovich.

Previous recipients:

  SC A SC B SC C SC D SC E SC F SC G SC H
2020 Takatoshi Sakazaki Michele T. Bannister Takanori Nishiyama Daniel B. Graham Ildar Khabibullin Giorgio Baiocco Katharina Brinkert Vitali Müller
2018 Benjamin Hamlington Shunichi Kamata Loren C. Chang Remya Bhanu Volodymyr Savchenko Amir Alexander Bahadori Taishi Yano Frederico Francisco
2016 Aaron van Donkelaar Alexander G. Hayes Erdal Yiğit Drew L. Turner Lan Jian Satoshi Kodaira Thomas Triller Ewan D. Fitzsimons
2014 Jérôme Bouffard Diego Turrini C. Vineeth Anton Artemyev Nanda Rea Luca Mariotti José Miguel Ezquerro Navarro Benny Rievers
2012 Jadunandan Dash Bethany L. Ehlmann Tatsuhiro Yokoyama Jonathan P. Eastwood Makoto Uemura Chiara La Tessa Michael Lukasser Peter J. Wass
2010 Paul I. Palmer Anna A. Fedorova Jiuhou Lei Yasuhito Narita Vito Sguera Oleg A. Gusev Junichiro Shiomi John William Conklin
2008 Kauzar Saleh Contell No award Jonathan J. Makela Olena Podladchikova Sergey A. Bogachev Thomas Berger Farzam Zoueshtiagh Tim van Zoest
2006 Olga V. Kalashnikova Tristan Guillot Marina Galand & Viviane Pierrard Vladislav Izmodenov Mikhail Revnivtsev Natalie Baecker Ichiro Ueno Diana Shaul
2004 Christa D. Peters-Lidard Hideyo Kawakita no award Elizabeth A. Lucek Alexey A. Vikhlinin Irina V. Shumilina Thomas Boeck William J. Weber
2002 Steven R. Jayne Francois Forget Vladimir Truhlik Anatoli A. Petrukovich Toshifumi Shimizu Patrice Coll Pierre Colinet Robert W. Brumley
2000 Sarah T. Gille Roland Meier Stephen D. Eckermann Vassilis Angelopoulos Takeshi Tsuru Max P. Bernstein Jens P. Leypoldt Alberto Vecchio
1998 Jochen Harnisch Jane Luu Patrick G.J. Irwin Masafumi Hirahara

SC D2/E3
Taro Sakao
Sergei A. Grebenev

SC D2/E3
Taro Sakao
Etienne de Vanssay Yuko Inatomi Yusuf R. Jafry
1996 Franz H. Berger Emmanuel Lelouch Shun-Rong Zhang Michele K. Dougherty

SC D2/E3: Gary Zank
Tadayasu Dotani

SC D2/E3: Gary Zank
Dimitry O. Meshkov no award
1994 Ivan Csiszar Philippe Zarka Oleg I. Korablev Sandra C. Chapman Eugene Churazov David T. Smernoff no award
1992 Robert R. Leben N.G.M. Thomas Dmitry V. Titov Yoshiharu Omura Marat R. Gilfanov R. Hemmersbach-Krause Stefan van Vaerenbergh
1990 Bernard Pinty Jonathan I. Lunine Michael Lockwood Karl-Heinz Glassmeier Michiel van der Klis Alexey M. Alpatov Johannes Baumgartl

Nomination requirements, form, and citations for the most recent award recipients.