Médaille d'or du CNRS
The Médaille d'or du CNRS ( CNRS gold medal ) is the highest distinction awarded by the CNRS and one of the highest scientific awards in France. It has been awarded annually since 1954. In addition, the CNRS also awards several silver and bronze medals each year.
Award winners
- 1954: Émile Borel (mathematics)
- 1955: Louis de Broglie (physics), Nobel Prize in Physics 1929
- 1956: Jacques Hadamard (mathematics)
- 1957: Gaston Dupouy (physics)
- 1958: Gaston Ramon (immunology)
- 1959: André Danjon (astrophysics)
- 1960: Raoul Blanchard (geography)
- 1961: Pol Bouin (Physiology)
- 1962: Marcel Delépine (chemistry)
- 1963: Robert Courrier (biology)
- 1964: Alfred Kastler (physics), Nobel Prize in Physics 1966
- 1965: Louis Néel (physics), Nobel Prize in Physics 1970
- 1966: Paul Pascal (chemistry)
- 1967: Claude Lévi-Strauss (Ethnology)
- 1968: Boris Ephrussi (genetics)
- 1969: Georges Chaudron (chemistry)
- 1970: Jacques Friedel (physics)
- 1971: Bernard Halpern (Immunology)
- 1972: Jacques Oudin (Immunology)
- 1973: André Leroi-Gourhan (Ethnology)
- 1974: Edgar Lederer (biochemistry)
- 1975: Raimond Castaing (physics), Christiane Desroches-Noblecourt (Egyptology)
- 1976: Henri Cartan (mathematics)
- 1977: Charles Fehrenbach (astronomy)
- 1978: Maurice Allais (Economics), Alfred Nobel Memorial Prize for Economics 1998, Pierre Jacquinot (Physics)
- 1979: Pierre Chambon (biology)
- 1980: Pierre-Gilles de Gennes (physics), Nobel Prize in Physics 1991
- 1981: Jean-Marie Lehn (chemistry), Nobel Prize in chemistry 1987, and Roland Martin (archeology)
- 1982: Pierre Joliot (biochemistry)
- 1983: Evry Schatzman (astrophysics)
- 1984: Jean Brossel (physics), Jean-Pierre Vernant (history)
- 1985: Piotr Slonimski (genetics)
- 1986: Nicole Le Douarin (Embryology)
- 1987: Georges Canguilhem (philosophy), Jean-Pierre Serre (mathematics)
- 1988: Philippe Nozières (physics)
- 1989: Michel Jouvet (biology)
- 1990: Marc Julia (chemistry)
- 1991: Jacques Le Goff (history)
- 1992: Jean-Pierre Changeux (neurobiology)
- 1993: Pierre Bourdieu (sociology)
- 1994: Claude Allègre (geophysics)
- 1995: Claude Hagège (Linguistics)
- 1996: Claude Cohen-Tannoudji (physics), Nobel Prize in Physics 1997
- 1997: Jean Rouxel (chemistry)
- 1998: Pierre Potier (chemistry)
- 1999: Jean-Claude Risset (computer music)
- 2000: Michel Lazdunski (biochemistry)
- 2001: Maurice Godelier (anthropology)
- 2002: Claude Lorius (climatology), Jean Jouzel (climatology)
- 2003: Albert Fert (Physics), Nobel Prize in Physics 2007
- 2004: Alain Connes (mathematics)
- 2005: Alain Aspect (Physics)
- 2006: Jacques Stern (computer science)
- 2007: Jean Tirole (Economics), Alfred Nobel Memorial Prize for Economics 2014
- 2008: Jean Weissenbach (Genetics)
- 2009: Serge Haroche (physics), Nobel Prize in Physics 2012
- 2010: Gérard Férey (chemistry)
- 2011: Jules Hoffmann (biology), Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 2011
- 2012: Philippe Descola (anthropology)
- 2013: Margaret Buckingham (Developmental Biology)
- 2014: Gérard Berry (computer science)
- 2015: Eric Karsenti (Biology)
- 2016: Claire Voisin (Mathematics)
- 2017: Alain Brillet (physics), Thibault Damour (physics)
- 2018: Barbara Cassin (Philosophy)
- 2019: Thomas Ebbesen (physical chemistry)
Web links
- List of winners on the official website