HONOR

Science and arts award, granted 1940-54. The Lenin Peace Prize is a separate award.

Name	Occupation	Birth	Death	Known for
Pavel A. Cherenkov	Physicist	15-Jul-1904	6-Jan-1990	Cherenkov radiation
Ilya M. Frank	Physicist	23-Oct-1908	22-Jun-1990	Cherenkov radiation
Gustav Hertz	Physicist	22-Jul-1887	30-Oct-1975	Franck-Hertz experiment
Mikhail Timofeyevich Kalashnikov	Inventor	10-Nov-1919		Inventor of Kalashnikov rifle
Lev Landau	Physicist	22-Jan-1908	1-Apr-1968	Superfluidity of helium
Trofim Lysenko	Scientist	29-Sep-1898	20-Nov-1976	Dazzled Stalin with false genetic theory
Sergei V. Mikhalkov	Songwriter	13-Mar-1913	27-Aug-2009	Lyricist, Russian National Anthem
Andrei Sakharov	Physicist	21-May-1921	14-Dec-1989	Developed the Soviet hydrogen bomb
Igor Y. Tamm	Physicist	8-Jul-1895	12-Apr-1971	Cherenkov radiation
Andrei Vyshinsky	Government	10-Dec-1883	22-Nov-1954	Soviet Prosecutor General during the Great Purge

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