Cothenius Medal
The Cothenius Medal is a science prize that has been awarded by the German Academy of Sciences Leopoldina since 1792 for the life's work of a scientist. It is named after Christian Andreas Cothenius , who donated it from his inheritance (with the interest from 1000 thalers in gold) and wanted to have the best work on a medical prize question honored every two years. Since 1954 it has usually been awarded to members of the Leopoldina. It is connected to a gold medal bearing the portrait of Cothenius and the inscription Praemium virtutis salutem mortalium provehentibus sancitum ( German As recognition of the ability of those who promote the welfare of mortals ).
Award winners
- 1792: Cornelius Johann Voss , Georg von Wedekind , Gerhard Anton Gramberg
- 1795: Christoph Wilhelm Hufeland
- 1800: Franz Justus Frenzel , Heinrich Cotta
- 1806: August Heinrich Ferdinand Gutfeld , Christian Friedrich von Jäger
- 1861: Johann Ernst Falke
- 1864: Ernst Haeckel
- 1876: Wilhelm Haarmann , Gustav Robert Kirchhoff , Giovanni Schiaparelli , Fridolin von Sandberger , Ferdinand Tiemann , August Wilhelm Eichler , August Weismann , Alexander Ecker , Carl Friedrich Wilhelm Ludwig
- 1877: Joseph Lister
- 1878: Hugo Gyldén
- 1879: Wilhelm Eduard Weber
- 1880: August Michaelis , Friedrich Wöhler , Heinrich Robert Göppert
- 1881: Joachim Barrande
- 1882: Nathanael Pringsheim
- 1883: Franz Eilhard Schulze
- 1884: Rudolf Heidenhain
- 1885: Ludwig Lindenschmit the Elder
- 1886: Adolf Kussmaul
- 1887: Karl Weierstrasse
- 1888: Julius von Hann
- 1889: Otto Wallach
- 1890: Diony's stubbornness
- 1891: Melchior Treub
- 1892: Gustaf Magnus Retzius
- 1893: Adolf Fick
- 1894: Karl von den Steinen , Hanns Bruno Geinitz
- 1895: Heinrich Ernst Beyrich
- 1895: Alphonse Laveran
- 1896: Robert von Sterneck
- 1897: Georg Quincke , Albert von Kölliker
- 1898: Emil Fischer
- 1899: Ferdinand Zirkel
- 1900: Joseph Dalton Hooker
- 1901: Carl Gegenbaur , Rudolf Virchow
- 1903: Ivan Petrovich Pavlov
- 1904: Alexander Supan
- 1905: Ernst von Leyden
- 1906: Georg von Neumayer , David Hilbert
- 1907: Wilhelm von Bezold
- 1908: Daniel Vorländer
- 1909: Viktor Uhlig
- 1910: Wilhelm Pfeffer
- 1911: Carl Chun
- 1912: Robert Tigerstedt
- 1913: Leonhard Schultze-Jena
- 1914: Emil Abderhalden
- 1916: Wilhelm von Waldeyer-Hartz
- 1922: Albert Wangerin
- 1925: Albrecht Penck , Hugo Eckener , Sven von Hedin
- 1934: Johannes Weigelt
- 1935: Hans Spemann , Otfried Foerster
- 1937: Armin Tschermak-Seysenegg , Dante de Blasi , Eugen Fischer , George Barger , Franz Volhard , Max Le Blanc , Paul Uhlenhuth , Richard Kuhn , Robert von Ostertag
- 1938: Erich Tschermak-Seysenegg
- 1939: Alfred Vogt
- 1941: Georg Sticker
- 1943: Hermann Rein
- 1944: Otto Hahn
- 1953: Karl Wilhelm Jötten
- 1959: Pyotr Leonidowitsch Kapiza
- 1960: Kurt Mothes , John C. Eccles
- 1961: Max Bürger
- 1964: Wolfgang von Buddenbrock-Hettersdorff
- 1965: Hans-Hermann Bennhold , Ernst Derra
- 1966: Archibald Vivian Hill
- 1967: Karl Lohmann , Wladimir Alexandrowitsch Engelhardt
- 1969: Helmut Hasse , Bartel Leendert van der Waerden , Pawel Sergejewitsch Alexandrow
- 1971: Friedrich Hund , Otto Kratky
- 1972: Erwin Reichenbach
- 1973: Albrecht Unsöld
- 1974: Viktor Hambarzumjan
- 1975: Ernst Ruska , Ilja Prigogine
- 1977: Wolfgang Gentner , Arnold Graffi
- 1980: Peter Friedrich Matzen , Wilhelm Jost
- 1983: Erna Lesky , Wolf von Engelhardt
- 1985: Hermann Flohn , Konrad Zuse
- 1987: Rostislaw Kaischew , Adolf Watznauer
- 1989: Heinz Bethge , Juergen Tonndorf , Bernard Katz
- 1991: Albert Eschenmoser , Heinz Röhrer
- 1993: Bernhard Hassenstein , Wolfgang Gerok
- 1995: Dietrich Schneider , Gottfried Möllenstedt , Wilhelm Doerr
- 1997: Otto Braun-Falco , Friedrich Hirzebruch
- 1999: Rudolf Rott , Dorothea Kuhn
- 2000: Hans Mohr
- 2001: Leopold Horner , Heinz Jagodzinski
- 2003: Ernst JM Helmreich , Benno Parthier , Andreas Oksche
- 2005: Hans Günter Schlegel , Alfred Gierer
- 2007: Klaus Wolff , Sigrid Peyerimhoff
- 2009: Karl Decker , Eduard Seidler
- 2011: Bert Hölldobler , Anna M. Wobus , Ulrich Wobus
- 2013: Gunter S. Fischer , Wolf Singer
- 2015: Herbert Gleiter , Otto Ludwig Lange
- 2017: Fritz Melchers , Joachim Trümper
- 2019: Klaus Müllen , Walter Neupert
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ The gold medal of the Cothenius Medal 1971 awarded to Friedrich Hund in 1971