History of Science and Engineering Annotation << Back Russians and «Nobeliana»: Love Without Reciprocity B.S. Gorobets For 110 уears of Nobel prize history, only 9 Russian citizens were awarded, whereas more than 160 Americans and as much as 17 Swedes were marked off this prize. Origins of this disproportion have been considered such as premature death of pioneer discoverers (Nobel prize cannot be awarded posthumously), passive attitude of nominators towards certain deserved discoverers, subjectivity of Nobel committees who does not evaluate candidates from Russia (USSR). For example, outstanding results in physics of the following Russian scientists have been mentioned: Grigoriy Landsberg and Leonid Mandelshtam, Evgeniy Zavoisky, Vladimir Veksler, Nikolay Bogoliubov, Dmitrii Ivanenko, Vladimir Letokhov, Igor Strukov. Key words: Nobel Prize, Landsberg; Mandelshtam; Raman; Zavoisky; Veksler; Bogoliubov; Ivanenko; Letokhov; Strukov. E-mail: bgorobets@rambler.ru