Montyon Prize
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The Montyon Prize (French: Prix Montyon) is a series of prizes awarded annually by the French Academy of Sciences and the Académie française. They are endowed by the French benefactor Baron de Montyon.
History[]
Prior to the start of the French Revolution, the established a series of prizes to be given away by the Académie Française, the Académie des Sciences, and the Académie Nationale de Médecine. These were abolished by the National Convention, but were taken up again when Baron de Montyon returned to France in 1815. When he died, he bequeathed a large sum of money for the perpetual endowment of four annual prizes. The endowed prizes were as follows:
- Making an industrial process less unhealthy
- Perfecting of any technical improvement in a mechanical process
- Book which during the year rendered the greatest service to humanity
- The "prix de vertu" for the most courageous act on the part of a poor Frenchman
These prizes were considered by some to be a forerunner of the Nobel Prize.
List of winners[]
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- (1820)
- François-Xavier-Joseph Droz (1823)
- Antoine Germain Labarraque (1825)
- Friedrich Sertürner (1831)[1]
- Alexis de Tocqueville (1835)
- Philippe Ricord (1842)
- Jeanne Jugan 1845
- Jules Verne
- Louis Pasteur (1859)
- Mary Mapes Dodge (1876)
- Hector Malot (1878)
- George Henry Corliss (1879)
- Jacques-Arsène d'Arsonval (1882)
- Victor André Cornil 1886
- Louis Fréchette
- Charles Thomas Jackson
- Jean-Henri Fabre
- (1895)
- Ludovic de Contenson (1902).[2]
- Charles Nicolle (1909, 1912, 1914)
- Edward Tuck and Julia Stell (1916)
- Victor Babeș (1924)
- Armand Praviel (1925)[3]
- Suzanne Lavaud (1932)
- Louise Thuliez (1935)[4]
- Valentine Thomson (1937)
- Ivan Đaja (1946)
- Daniel Dugué (1947)
- André Giroux (1949)
- Nicolas Minorsky (1955)
- Antoine de La Garanderie (1970)
- (1971)
- (1972)
- (2000)
- (2001)
- Charles-Nicolas Peaucellier
- (2002)
- (2003)
- Jacques Julliard (2004)
- (2004)
- (2005)
- Renaud Girard (2006)
- (2007)
- Jean-François Mattéi (2008)
- (2009)
- William Marx (2010)
- (2011)
- (2012)
- (2013)
- (2014)
- (2015)
- Hervé Gaymard (2016)
- (2017)
- Gilles Lipovetsky (2018)
- (2019)
- (2020)
- (2021)
External links[]
References[]
- ^ Krishnamurti, Chandrasekhar; Rao, SSCChakra (2016). "The isolation of morphine by Serturner". Indian Journal of Anaesthesia. 60 (11): 861–862. doi:10.4103/0019-5049.193696. PMC 5125194. PMID 27942064.
- ^ "Académie Française - Ludovic de CONTENSON". Académie Française. Retrieved 8 May 2020.
- ^ Académie française. "Armand Praviel". Retrieved 16 February 2019 (in French).
- ^ "Louise THULIEZ". www.academie-francaise.fr (in French). Retrieved 26 March 2018.
Categories:
- Académie Française awards
- Awards of the French Academy of Sciences