Gersh Itskovich Budker (Герш Ицкович Будкер), also named Andrey Mikhailovich Budker (1 May 1918 – 4 July 1977), was a Soviet physicist born in Murafa in Ukrainian People's Republic (now in Ukraine), specialized in nuclear physics and accelerator physics.
Due to the beginning of the Great Patriotic War soon afterward he went to serve in the army.
His portrait decorates the famous Round Table Room in the institute.
Budker became one of the founders of Faculty of Physics of Novosibirsk State University in 1961.
The collection, G. I. Budker: Reflections & Remembrances (edited by Boris N. Breizman) was published in 1988 and was later translated into English by James W. Van Dam.