Gennady Nikolayevich Kulipanov (born in 1942) is the Doctor of Physics and Mathematics, Professor, Academician of the Russian Academy of Sciences, the alumni of NSTU, the specialist in the field of accelerator physics, the deputy director of the Institute of Nuclear Physics in the Siberian Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences, the director of the Siberian Synchrotron Radiation Center.
Kulipanov supervised the making of radiative wigglers, including the world’s first superconducting wiggler. He also oversaw the making of the synchrotron light sources Sibir-1 and Sibir-2 for the Kurchatov Institute. He proposed the concept of the fourth generation of the synchrotron light sources based on the accelerator-recuperator. He is one of the authors of the MARS project. Kulipanov supervises the construction of Novosibirsk high-power free-electron laser (FEL).