The Scientific Counsil of the Intitute for Nuclear Research of the Russian Academy of Sciences awarded Markov Prize in 2015 for great contribution to theoretical and experimental investigations in the field of elementary particle physics, nuclear physics and neutrino astrophysics to Victor MATVEEV, director of JINR, main scientific researcher of INR RAS, academician, For contribution into strong interactions theory and quark model of hadrons

Victor MATVEEV is an outstanding physicist and science organizer. He is a co-author of the works in which the theory of electromagnetic and weak decays of mesons and baryons was elaborated, electromagnetic mass splitting in isotopic hadron multiplets was explained and mass formulas for higher-order hadron resonances was received. They played a key role in the hadron quark structure formation.
   He made a significant contribution into relativistic approach for coupled particle systems description in the quantum field theory and quantum-field description of particle dispersion at high energies.
   He is a co-author of an automodelity principle in the high energy physics, the unified approach for description of scale-invariant behavior of deep non-elastic and inclusive processes and widely known rules of Matveev-Muradyan-Tavkhelidze quark counting.
   He put forward a conception of hidden color of nuclei and showed the significance of quark degrees of freedom for understanding nuclear structure at small distances. He predicted baryon matter instability at super high density.
   Now he deals with the program on search for super symmetry on the Large Hadron Collider.

PRIZE REGULATIONS

Medal Scetch on the Base of the Moisey Markov Bas-relief which was made from Life in 1957 by Sculptor Olga Domogatskaya

Markov Prize Laureate Medal was made for the 100th Anniversary of Academician Markov