Marcel Benoist Prize
Marcel Benoist Prize | |
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Prix Marcel Benoist | |
Awarded for | Useful scientific discovery |
Sponsored by | Marcel Benoist Foundation |
Country | Switzerland |
First awarded | 1920 |
Website | https://marcel-benoist.ch/en/ |
The Marcel Benoist Prize, offered by the Marcel Benoist Foundation, is a monetary prize that has been offered annually since 1920 to a scientist of Swiss nationality or residency who has made the most useful scientific discovery. Emphasis is placed on those discoveries affecting human life. Since 1997, candidates in the humanities have also been eligible for the prize.
The Marcel Benoist Foundation was established by the will of the French lawyer Marcel Benoist, a wartime resident of Lausanne, who died in 1918. It is managed by a group of trustees comprising the Swiss interior minister and heads of the main Swiss universities. It is often dubbed the "Swiss Nobel Prize."[1] The current laureate is Nicola Spaldin.[2]
History[]
The first award was given to immunologist Maurice Arthus (1862–1945) at the University of Lausanne. Other winners have included computer scientist Niklaus Wirth, astronomer Michel Mayor, and cardiologist Max Holzmann. As of 2019, eleven Marcel Benoist winners have later also won the Nobel Prize: Paul Karrer, Leopold Ruzicka, Walter R. Hess, Tadeus Reichstein, Vladimir Prelog, Niels Kaj Jerne, Johannes G. Bednorz, Karl. Alexander Müller, Richard R. Ernst, Kurz Wüthrich, and Michel Mayor.
In 2009, Françoise Gisou van der Goot (École polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne) was the first woman to win the Marcel Benoist Prize.
Laureates[]
- 1920: Maurice Arthus
- 1921: Conrad Brunner
- 1922: Paul Karrer
- 1923: Albert Heim
- 1924:
- 1925:
- 1926: Emile Argand
- 1927: Hermann Sahli
- 1928: Jules Gonin
- 1929: Paul Niggli
- 1930:
- 1931: Walter R. Hess
- 1932: Maurice Lugeon
- 1933:
- 1934: Max Askanazy
- 1935:
- 1936:
- 1937:
- 1938: Leopold Ruzicka
- 1939:
- 1940: Friedrich T. Wahlen
- 1941:
- 1942: Arthur Stoll
- 1943: Paul Scherrer
- 1944:
- 1945: Ernst Albert Gäumann
- 1946:
- 1947: Tadeus Reichstein
- 1948:
- 1949: Albert Frey-Wyssling
- 1950:
- 1951:
- 1952:
- 1953:
- 1954: Ernst Hadorn
- 1955: Max Holzmann
- 1956:
- 1957:
- 1958: Klaus Clusius
- 1959:
- 1960:
- 1961:
- 1962:
- 1963: Gerold Schwarzenbach
- 1964: Vladimir Prelog
- 1965: Georges de Rham
- 1966: and
- 1967: and
- 1968:
- 1969: Walter Heitler
- 1970: Charles Weissmann
- 1971: Manfred Bleuler
- 1972: Albert Eschenmoser
- 1973: , and
- 1974: Ewald Weibel
- 1975: M. Gazi Yasargil
- 1976: , and Jean Lindenmann
- 1977: and Edgar Heilbronner
- 1978: Niels Kaj Jerne
- 1979:
- 1980:
- 1981:
- 1982:
- 1983:
- 1984:
- 1985: Richard R. Ernst
- 1986: Johannes G. Bednorz and Karl Alexander Müller
- 1987: Maurice E. Müller, and
- 1988: Ulrich Laemmli
- 1989: Niklaus Wirth
- 1990: Bruno Messerli, Hans Oeschger and Werner Stumm
- 1991: Duilio Arigoni and Kurt Wüthrich
- 1992: Gottfried Schatz
- 1993: no prize
- 1994:
- 1995: and
- 1996:
- 1997: Jürg M. Fröhlich
- 1998: Michel Mayor
- 1999: and Luzius Wildhaber
- 2000: Dieter Seebach
- 2001:
- 2002:
- 2003: Denis Duboule
- 2004:
- 2005:
- 2006:
- 2007: Ari Helenius
- 2008: Ernst Fehr
- 2009: Françoise Gisou van der Goot (first time that the prize is awarded to a woman)
- 2010: Daniel Loss
- 2011: Michele Parrinello
- 2012: Michael N. Hall
- 2013: Michael Grätzel
- 2014: Nicolas Gisin
- 2015: Laurent Keller
- 2016: Johan Auwerx
- 2017: Thomas Stocker
- 2018: Lars-Erik Cederman
- 2019: Nicola Spaldin
- 2020: Rudolf Aebersold
See also[]
- List of general science and technology awards
- Science and technology in Switzerland
- Prizes named after people
- Latsis Foundation
- Louis-Jeantet Prize for Medicine
Notes and references[]
- ^ Fabien Goubet, Et la lumière fut téléportée, Le Temps, 28 October 2014
- ^ Swiss National Science Foundation. "Nicola Spaldin awarded Swiss Science Prize Marcel Benoist". Retrieved 8 November 2019.
External links[]
- Science and technology awards
- Science and technology in Switzerland
- Swiss awards
- Awards established in 1920
- Science award stubs
- Switzerland stubs