Evgenii Mikhailovich Nikishin (Евгений Михайлович Никишин; 23 June 1945, in Penza Oblast – 17 December 1986) was a Russian mathematician, who specialized in harmonic analysis.
[2] In 1977 he became a professor at Moscow State University, where he remained until his death after a long battle with cancer.
In 1972 he won the Lenin Komsomol Prize and in 1973 he won the Salem Prize, that awarded every year to a young mathematician judged to have done outstanding work world wide.
In 1978 he was an Invited Speaker (The Padé Approximants) at the International Congress of Mathematicians in Helsinki.
Evgeniy was a long friend and colleague of Anatoly Fomenko with whom they were developing a revising historical chronology.