Наука и академия

Абрахам Маслоу

Brooklyn-born son of Kyiv émigrés who mapped human potential.

Ада Йонат

Deciphered the ribosome, atom by atom.

Альберт Сейбин

From Białystok to the vial that ended polio.

Александр Поляков

The Soviet mind that rewired string theory

Алексей Абрикосов

Soviet theorist who mapped the invisible architecture of superconductors.

Алексей Китаев

Architect of topological quantum computing

Андрей Гейм

Soviet-born rebel who taped the future of electronics.

Андрей Линде

The physicist who inflated the universe

Андрей Окуньков

Moscow-born mathematician who reshaped probability and geometry

Андрей Сахаров

The bomb's architect who became its conscience.

Артём Оганов

The algorithmist who maps matter's future

Артур Корнберг

Decoded life's blueprint from immigrant roots.

Аврам Хершко

Decoded cellular destruction—and won the Nobel for it.

Карл Саган

Brooklyn boy who heard the cosmos call

Сезар Мильштейн

Argentine-British Nobel laureate from a Russian-immigrant family who invented monoclonal antibodies

Дан Шехтман

Israeli Nobel laureate with Russian roots who discovered quasicrystals and changed chemistry

Даниэль Канеман

The psychologist who rewired economics

Деннис Габор

Hungarian-British Nobel laureate with Russian roots who invented holography

Ефим Зельманов

Soviet-born mathematician who solved a century-old problem and won the Fields Medal

Илья Мечников

Ukrainian-born father of immunology who won the Nobel Prize and invented the concept of the immune cell

Элиэзер Бен-Иегуда

Born in Belarus, he resurrected Hebrew as a living spoken language

Элон Линденштраус

Israeli mathematician with Russian roots who won the Fields Medal for work in ergodic theory

Евгений Дынкин

Soviet mathematician who pioneered probability theory and Dynkin diagrams before emigrating to Cornell

Евсей Домар

Russian Empire-born economist who co-created the Harrod-Domar growth model

Георгий Гамов

Odessa-born physicist who cracked the Big Bang, decoded DNA, and explained nuclear fusion

Жорж Шарпак

Born in Ukraine, invented particle detectors that transformed physics and won the Nobel Prize

Глеб Ватагин

Born in Ukraine, founded Brazil's greatest physics school and discovered cosmic ray muons

Григорий Брейт

Mykolaiv-born nuclear physicist who co-discovered the ionosphere and helped build the atomic bomb

Грегори Пинкус

Son of Russian-Jewish immigrants who co-invented the contraceptive pill and changed the world

Григорий Маргулис

Moscow mathematician who won the Fields Medal for revolutionising the theory of Lie groups

Гарольд Эджертон

Nebraska engineer with Russian-German immigrant parents who invented the electronic flash and made bullets visible

Гарольд Пинтер

Nobel laureate playwright with Odessa-Polish Jewish roots who reinvented English drama

Герман Мюллер

Nobel Prize-winning geneticist with Russian-immigrant father who discovered radiation causes mutations

Герман Минковский

Born in Kaunas (Russian Empire) — the mathematician who gave Einstein's relativity its geometry

Илья Пригожин

Moscow-born chemist who won the Nobel Prize for showing disorder creates order

Исаак Башевис Зингер

Born in the Russian Empire's Polish territories, won the Nobel Prize writing Yiddish stories of a vanished world

Израиль Гельфанд

Self-taught Ukrainian Jewish mathematician who became one of the 20th century's greatest algebraists

Иван Бунин

The first Russian to win the Nobel Prize in Literature, writing in exile about a lost Russia

Яков Маршак

Kyiv-born economist who founded econometrics and shaped modern economic science

Ежи Нейман

Born in Bendery, Russian Empire — the statistician who invented the confidence interval and modern hypothesis testing

Джонас Солк

Son of Lithuanian-Belarusian Jewish immigrants who developed the polio vaccine and refused to patent it

Иосиф Бродский

Leningrad poet expelled by the Soviets who became America's Poet Laureate and won the Nobel Prize

Джошуа Джортнер

Polish-Russian Jewish scientist who became Israel's most decorated chemist and reshaped quantum chemistry

Кеннет Эрроу

Nobel-winning economist with Romanian-Russian roots who proved markets can't be perfectly rational

Кира Радинская

Kyiv-born AI pioneer who predicted cholera outbreaks and became Salesforce's chief scientist in Israel

Константин Новосёлов

Born in Nizhny Tagil, won the Nobel Prize for isolating graphene with Scotch tape

Леонид Гурвич

Moscow-born economist who won the Nobel Prize at 90 for inventing mechanism design theory

Лев Ландау

Born in Baku, became the greatest Soviet physicist and the only man to win the Nobel Prize while in a coma

Лу Андреас-Саломе

Born in St. Petersburg, became Nietzsche's muse, Rilke's lover, and Freud's first female psychoanalyst

Людвиг Фаддеев

Leningrad mathematical physicist who solved the three-body problem and transformed quantum field theory

Маркос Мошинский

Kyiv-born physicist who became Mexico's greatest scientist and won the Prince of Asturias Prize

Максим Концевич

Khimki-born mathematician who won both the Fields Medal and the Breakthrough Prize

Мелвин Кэлвин

Son of Lithuanian-Georgian Jewish immigrants who won the Nobel Prize for mapping photosynthesis

Месровб Сет

Russian-educated Armenian scholar who became the father of modern Armenian studies in India

Майкл Левитт

Born in Lithuania, won the Nobel Prize for developing multiscale models of complex chemical systems

Михаил Громов

Born in Boksitogorsk — Fields Medal-winning mathematician who transformed topology

Милтон Фридман

Son of Ukrainian immigrants who won the Nobel Prize and became the most influential economist of the 20th century

Надин Гордимер

Nobel Prize-winning South African novelist whose father came from Latvia — wrote the moral conscience of apartheid

Ноам Хомский

The exile's son who rewired linguistics

Оскар Зариски

Born in Kobryn, Belarus — became one of the greatest algebraic geometers in history

Отто Струве

Born in Kharkiv into Russia's greatest astronomical dynasty — became America's foremost astronomer

Отто Валлах

Born in Königsberg with Russian Imperial connections — won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry and founded terpene chemistry

Пол Самуэльсон

Son of Polish-Russian Jewish immigrants who became America's greatest economist and won the first US Nobel in Economics

Пётр Бадмаев

Born a Buryat Buddhist in Siberia — became Tsar's personal physician, geopolitical adviser, and Russia's most exotic figure

Питирим Сорокин

Born in Vologda, sentenced to death by Lenin, escaped to become Harvard's greatest sociologist

Рашид Сюняев

Born in Tashkent — the Sunyaev-Zel'dovich effect bears his name, and he is one of the greatest living astrophysicists

Ричард Фейнман

The quantum rebel whose roots ran to Minsk

Роальд Хоффманн

Born in Zolochiv, Ukraine — survived the Holocaust hiding in an attic, won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry

Роберт Ауманн

Born in Frankfurt to a family with Russian roots — won the Nobel Prize for game theory and became Israel's greatest economist

Роберт Солоу

Son of Brooklyn Jewish immigrants from Russia — won the Nobel Prize and defined modern growth economics

Роман Якобсон

Born in Moscow — the linguist who invented structuralism and transformed how we understand language

Розалин Ялоу

Granddaughter of Ukrainian-German Jewish immigrants who won the Nobel Prize for inventing radioimmunoassay

Сол Беллоу

His parents came from St. Petersburg — he won the Nobel Prize and the Pulitzer and redefined the American novel

Зельман Ваксман

Born in Nova Pryluka, Ukraine — discovered streptomycin and won the Nobel Prize, saving millions from tuberculosis

Саймон Кузнец

Born in Pinsk, Belarus — invented GDP and won the Nobel Prize for measuring economic growth

Станислав Смирнов

St. Petersburg-born mathematician who won the Fields Medal and teaches in Geneva

Степан Тимошенко

Born in Chernihiv, Ukraine — the father of engineering mechanics and the most important engineer of the 20th century

Светлана Алексиевич

Born in Stanislaviv (Ukraine) — Nobel Prize-winning voice of the Soviet catastrophe and its survivors

Татьяна Проскурякофф

Born in Tomsk, Siberia — the archaeologist who cracked the Maya code and transformed ancient history

Феодосий Добжанский

Born in Nemyriv, Ukraine — the geneticist who unified Darwin and Mendel and founded modern evolutionary biology

Владимир Арнольд

Born in Odessa — one of the greatest mathematicians of the 20th century who solved Hilbert's 13th problem at 19

Владимир Ипатьев

Born in Moscow — the chemist who invented high-octane aviation fuel and enabled the Allied air forces to win WWII

Владимир Воеводский

Born in Moscow — won the Fields Medal for work so abstract it reshaped the foundations of mathematics

Вальдемар Хавкин

Born in Odessa — developed the world's first cholera and plague vaccines, saving millions in India

Василий Леонтьев

Born in St. Petersburg — won the Nobel Prize for input-output analysis, the model governments use to run economies

Яков Синай

Born in Moscow — won the Abel Prize for transforming ergodic theory and the mathematics of chaos

Юлий Борисович Харитон

Юрий Денисюк

Юрий Манин

Сергей Гуриев

Russia's most prominent economist in exile — Sciences Po Paris professor and EBRD chief economist

Вячеслав Муханов

The man who explained why the universe looks the way it does — father of cosmological inflation theory

Никита Животовский

Russian-born mathematics professor at TU Munich — one of Europe's leading combinatorists

Михаил Лукин

Moscow-born Harvard physics professor — one of the world's leading quantum computing scientists