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2025 George Gamow® Laureates

George Gamow®  award, established by the Russian-American Association of Scientists (RASA-America, Russian-American Science Association) in memory of the outstanding Russian-American physicist, Professor Georgy Antonovich Gamow (1904-1968) and to encourage members of the Russian-speaking scientific diaspora for outstanding achievements recognized by the wider scientific community, for 2025 is awarded to:

Anna Krylov professor of the University of Southern California “For her pioneering contributions to theoretical and computational chemistry, particularly the development of novel electronic structure methods for open-shell and electronically excited species; for her leadership within the theoretical chemistry community; and for her advocacy of scientific integrity and academic freedom”.

Mikhail Iampolski, professor of the New York University “For his uniquely original contributions as a cultural theorist and commentator, whose work bridges literature, film, philosophy, and social theory; for the breadth and depth of his scholarship, which have reshaped the study of Russian culture and intellectual history; and for his influential critical voice in Russian and international intellectual life” .
Anna Krylov

Anna Krylov

“For her pioneering contributions to theoretical and computational chemistry, particularly the development of novel electronic structure methods for open-shell and electronically excited species; for her leadership within the theoretical chemistry community; and for her advocacy of scientific integrity and academic freedom”.
Anna I. Krylov is the USC Associates Chair in Natural Sciences and a Professor of Chemistry at the University of Southern California. Born and raised in the USSR (Donetsk, Ukraine), she earned an M.Sc. from Moscow State University and a Ph.D. from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. Krylov’s research focuses on theoretical and computational quantum chemistry. She develops electronic-structure methods for open-shell and electronically excited species, including metastable states (resonances). Using these tools, her group investigates light–matter interactions with applications to spectroscopy, combustion, solar energy conversion, bioimaging, and quantum information science. She is the President of Q-Chem, Inc., one of the world’s leading quantum-chemistry software teams. Her work has been recognized by numerous honors, including the Barry Prize of the American Academy of Sciences and Letters, the Plyler Prize for Molecular Spectroscopy and many others. An outspoken advocate for academic freedom, Krylov is a founding member of the Academic Freedom Alliance and author of widely read essays on the politicization of science.
Mikhail Yampolsky

Mikhail Iampolski

“For his uniquely original contributions as a cultural theorist and commentator, whose work bridges literature, film, philosophy, and social theory; for the breadth and depth of his scholarship, which have reshaped the study of Russian culture and intellectual history; and for his influential critical voice in Russian and international intellectual life” .
Mikhail Iampolski is historian and theorist of art and culture, philosopher, film critic and philologist. He holds a doctorate in art history. He worked at the Institute of Cinematography and later at the Institute of Philosophy of the Russian Academy of Sciences. His first visit to the United States was for a year, invited by the Getty Research Institute as a scholar. Afterwards, he joined the faculty at New York University, where he taught for over 30 years and retired in 2024. He is the author of nearly five hundred articles and more than twenty monographs, many of which have been translated into various languages.
The RASA award has been established in 2015 in memory of Georgy Antonovich Gamow, an outstanding representative of the scientific diaspora, an influential Soviet and American theoretical physicist, astrophysicist and popularizer of science. Economist Ekaterina Zhuravskaya and computer scientist Vladimir Vapnik are its 2024’s laureates.
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