This year the highest award of the Russian academy of sciences – Large Lomonosov Gold Medal – went to a Russian and a Dutch physicist.
      
      This medal is awarded annually since 1959 by RAS Presidium to one Russian and one foreign scientist for a significant contribution to fields of natural sciences and humanities.
      
      Russian laureate Spartak Belyaev, a full member of the Academy, is an expert in accelerator physics, relativistic plasma, quantum many-particle systems, and nuclear physics.
      
      Dutch awardee Gerard 't Hooft, an expert in quantum field theory, is also a 1999 Nobel Prize laureate for elucidating the quantum structure of electroweak interactions.
      
      Source: Science News
      
Author: Anna Kizilova