Erasmus Medal
The Erasmus Medal is the Academia Europaea's highest award . It is awarded annually for long-term, outstanding scientific achievements and is associated with an honorary membership in the academy and an honorary lecture at the annual conference of the academy. The award is (as of 2014) sponsored by the Heinz Nixdorf Foundation .
Award winners
The year and place of the annual conference, the award winner and his area of expertise are given.
- 1992 Budapest: János Kornai (economics)
- 1993 Uppsala: Ernst-Joachim Mestmäcker (law)
- 1994 Parma: Lawrence Freedman (Social Sciences)
- 1995 Krakow: Alain Touraine (social sciences)
- 1996 Barcelona: Hubert Markl (evolutionary biology)
- 1997 Gent: Paul Crutzen (geosciences and cosmology)
- 1998 Basel: Peter Burke (history and archeology)
- 1999 Copenhagen: Raoul Van Caenegem (history and archeology)
- 2001 Rotterdam: Edoardo Boncinelli (cell biology) (no annual conference): Giorgio Bernardi (biochemistry and molecular biology)
- 2002 Lisbon: Harold Kroto (chemistry)
- 2003 Graz: Carl Djerassi (chemistry)
- 2004 Helsinki: Stig Strömholm (Law)
- 2005 Potsdam: Pierre Léna (geosciences and cosmology)
- 2006 Budapest: Bert Sakmann (Physiology and Medicine)
- 2007 Toledo: Francisco Márquez Villanueva (literature and theater studies)
- 2008 Liverpool: Semir Zeki (Physiology and Medicine)
- 2009 Naples: Carlo Ginzburg (history and archeology)
- 2010 Löwen: Jean Fréchet (chemistry)
- 2011 Paris: Manuel Castells (Social Sciences)
- 2012 Bergen: Geoffrey Burnstock (Physiology and Medicine) Tomas Hökfelt (Physiology and Medicine)
- 2013 Wroclaw: Norman Davies (history and archeology)
- 2014 Barcelona: Kurt Mehlhorn (IT)
- 2015 Darmstadt: Edith Hall (Classical Studies)
- 2016 Cardiff: Martin Rees (astronomy)
- 2017 Budapest: Andreu Mas-Colell (Economics)
- 2018 Barcelona: Hans Clevers (Developmental Biology )
- 2019 Barcelona: Sonia Livingstone (Humanities) Aleida Assmann (Literary Studies)
- 2020 Barcelona: Roger Penrose (Mathematics)
Web links
- Erasmus Medal at Academia Europaea (ae-info.org)
- ^ Academy of Europe: Aleida Assmann. In: ae-info.org. August 7, 2019, accessed August 17, 2019 .
- ^ The 32nd annual conference of Academia Europaea. In: ae-info.org. Academia Europaea , accessed on May 9, 2020 .