Lomonosov Gold Medal awarded to Björn Jonson

30.03.2018 | 

Björn Jonson, presently Chair of the NUSTAR Council, has been rewarded with the Russian Great Gold Medal, the highest award of the Russian Academy of Sciences (RAS), for his outstanding contributions to nuclear physics. The award ceremony was held in Moscow on March 30, 2018, at the General Meeting of the RAS. Since 1967, the Lomonosov Gold Medal is awarded each year to a Russian and a foreign scientist for their outstanding achievements in natural sciences and humanities. This year Yuri Oganessian was rewarded together with Björn Jonson.