Famous Alumni
Throughout the rich history of the University, graduates have become the Nobel Prize laureates; ruled the country; headed ministries and departments; have become Olympic champions, poets, and discoverers.
9 Nobel Prize winners
Ivan Pavlov
Physiology and Medicine, 1904
Nikolay Semenov
Chemistry, 1956 (with Sir Cyril Hinshelwood)
Lev Landau
Physics, 1962
Alexander Prokhorov
Physics, 1964 (with Charles Hard Townes and Nikolay Basov)
Wassily Leontief
Economics, 1973
Leonid Kantorovich
Economics, 1975 (with Tjalling Charles Koopmans)
Ilya Mechnikov
Physiology and Medicine, 1908
Joseph Brodsky
Literature, 1987
Alexey Ekimov
Chemistry, 2023 (with Moungi Bawendi and Louis Brus)