Grande médaille de l'Académie des sciences
La Grande médaille de l'Académie des sciences is an award from the French Académie des Sciences .
In 1997, the award emerged from a total of 143 award foundations of the Académie and the Institut de France , which were combined in it. The previous awards include the Lalande Prize for Astronomy and the Poncelet Prize for Mathematics.
The prize is awarded annually and alternately in the important subject areas of all sections of the Académie to a French or foreign scholar who has made a decisive contribution to the development of science: through the originality of his research work and through the international scope of its results, he has become the founder of a new one Research area made. The work of the award winner should have been carried out in an important area of basic research and should have led to a new and deeper understanding of the subject.
Award winners
- 1997 Jozef Stefaan Schell
- 1998 Leo P. Kadanoff
- 1999 René Thomas
- 2000 Robert Langlands
- 2001 Albert Eschenmoser
- 2002 Richard L. Garwin
- 2003 David D. Sabatini
- 2004 David Gross
- 2005 Ronald M. Evans
- 2006 Peter Goldreich
- 2007 Tomas Hökfelt
- 2008 Susan Solomon
- 2009 Robert A. Weinberg
- 2010 Michael Francis Atiyah
- 2011 Avelino Corma
- 2012 Adi Shamir
- 2013 Joan A. Steitz
- 2014 Joel L. Lebowitz
- 2016 Alexander Varshavsky
- 2018 Jocelyn Bell
Web links
- La grande médaille de l ' Académie des sciences (academie-sciences.fr)
- List of award winners (PDF, 1.4 MB)
- List of predecessor foundations (PDF, 103 kB)
- ↑ Prix attribués en 2018 (PDF, 45 kB); accessed on July 13, 2018.