Pius XI Medal
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The Pius XI Medal is an award presented every second year by the Pontifical Academy of Sciences to a promising scientist under the age of 45.[1]
Winners of the Pius XI Medal (1939-2018)[]
- 1939 Corneille Heymans (Belgium) Physiology
- 1942 Harlow Shapley (United States) Astronomy
- 1943 Emmanuel de Margerie (France) Geography
- 1962 (Sweden) Life Sciences
- 1963 Aage Bohr (Denmark) Physics
- 1964 François Gros (France) Life Sciences
- 1966 Allan Sandage (USA) Astronomy
- 1969 Robert Burns Woodward (USA) Chemistry
- 1970 (Japan) Life Sciences
- 1972 (Hungary) Physics
- 1975 Stephen W. Hawking (UK) Astronomy
- 1976 (Italy) Life Sciences
- 1979 (Brazil) Life Sciences
- 1981 Jean-Marie Lehn (France) Chemistry
- 1983 Gerardus t'Hooft (Netherlands) Physics
- 1986 (Australia) Life Sciences
- 1988 Luis Caffarelli (Argentina) Mathematics
- 1992 Adi Shamir (Israel) Other Disciplines
- 1996 Mark M. Davis (USA) Chemistry
- 2000 (UK) Life Sciences
- 2000 (UK) Life Sciences
- 2002 Stanislas Dehaene (France) Life Sciences
- 2002 Juan M. Maldacena (USA) Physics
- 2004 Laure Saint-Raymond (France) Mathematics
- 2006 Ashoke Sen (India) Physics
- 2008 (Chile) Life Sciences
- 2010 Patrick Mehlen (France) Biology
- 2012 (Taiwan) Genomics
- 2012 Ulrich Pöschl (Austria) Chemistry
- 2014 Cédric Villani (France) Mathematics[2]
- 2016 (Argentina) Neurosciences
- 2018 (Uganda), David M. Sabatini (USA) and (Italia)[3]
References[]
- ^ "The Pontifical Academy of Sciences: Pius XI Medal". Retrieved 2016-08-17.
- ^ PDF award info
- ^ "Archived copy" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 2019-11-13. Retrieved 2019-11-13.
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External links[]
Categories:
- Pontifical Academy of Sciences