Prize of the University of Heidelberg, and the Bruno Pontecorvo Prize "for his essential contributions to the study of close interrelation among particle physics, astrophysics and cosmology, and to the elaboration of a fundamentally new theory of physical space". In 2010 he received the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology Julius Wess Prize. The award was presented as part of a celebration of 50 years of teaching and research in particle physics at Karlsruhe, at which Rubakov gave a lecture entitled "Towards understanding the origin of inhomogeneities in the Universe" . In 2016 Rubakov was awarded the Demidov Prize "for fundamental theoretical contributions to the foundations of physics: quantum field theory, elementary particle physics, gravity, the theory of the early universe". In 2020 he received the Hamburg Prize for Theoretical Physics, worth €137.036. Personal life and death In February 2022, Rubakov signed an open letter by Russian scientists condemning the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine. Rubakov died on 18 October 2022, at age 67, following complications from COVID-19 that he had contracted in September. He had been in Sarov at the time of his death, lecturing. Publications References 1956 births 2022 deaths 20th-century Russian physicists 21st-century Russian physicists Corresponding Members of the USSR Academy of Sciences Deaths from the COVID-19 pandemic in Russia Demidov Prize laureates Fellows of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences Full Members of the Russian Academy of Sciences Moscow State University alumni Russian activists against the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine Scientists from Moscow People associated with CERN