Robert Koch Medal
The Robert Koch Gold Medal (or Robert Koch Medal for short) is the award that the Robert Koch Foundation has been awarding mostly annually since 1974 for the outstanding life's work of medical researchers in the field of infectious diseases , immunology and microbiology .
"This is the highest award for research in the field of infectious diseases ."
- Hans-Dieter Klenk : Faster and better vaccines (pja / dpa, Der Tagesspiegel April 26, 2006, accessed on February 24, 2011)
It should not be confused with the Foundation's Robert Koch Prize .
Award winners
The list of award winners follows the list of the Robert Koch Foundation.
- 1974 Paul Kallós (Sweden)
- 1977 Pierre Grabar (France)
- 1978 Theodor von Brand (Germany), Saul Krugman (USA)
- 1979 Sir Christopher Andrewes (Great Britain)
- 1980 Emmy Klieneberger-Nobel (Great Britain)
- 1981 Maclyn McCarty (USA)
- 1982 Edgar Lederer (France), Walter Pagel (Great Britain), Karel Styblo (Netherlands)
- 1985 Richard M. Krause (USA)
- 1986 Ernst Ruska (Germany)
- 1987 Hans J. Müller-Eberhard (USA)
- 1988 Willy Burgdorfer (USA)
- 1989 Maurice R. Hilleman (USA)
- 1990 Ernst L. Wynder (USA)
- 1991 Werner Schäfer (Germany)
- 1992 Piet Borst (Netherlands), Howard C. Goodman (USA)
- 1993 Karl Lennert (Germany), Otto Westphal (Switzerland)
- 1994 Paul Klein (Germany)
- 1995 Charles Weissmann (Switzerland)
- 1996 Sir Gustav Nossal (Australia)
- 1997 Satoshi Ōmura (Japan)
- 1998 George Klein (Sweden)
- 1999 Barry R. Bloom (USA)
- 2000 Marco Baggiolini (Switzerland)
- 2001 Avrion Mitchison (Great Britain)
- 2002 Agnes Ullmann (France)
- 2003 Tadamitsu Kishimoto (Japan)
- 2004 Heinz Schaller (Germany)
- 2005 Emil R. Unanue (USA)
- 2006 Hans-Dieter Klenk (Germany)
- 2007 Brigitte A. Askonas (United Kingdom)
- 2008 Philip Leder (USA)
- 2009 Volker ter Meulen (Germany)
- 2010 Fotis Kafatos (United Kingdom)
- 2011 Ernst-Ludwig Winnacker (France)
- 2012 Eckard Wimmer (USA)
- 2013 Anthony Fauci (USA)
- 2014 Hermann Bujard (Germany)
- 2015 Peter Piot (London)
- 2016 Kai Simons (Germany)
- 2017 Christopher T. Walsh (USA)
- 2018 Staffan Normark (Sweden)
- 2019 Martin J. Blaser (USA)
- 2020 Thomas F. Meyer (Berlin)
Remarks
- ↑ Robert Koch Gold Medal on the Robert Koch Foundation website, viewed on June 29, 2014. On an older list of holders of the Robert Koch Gold Medal since 1960 ( Memento from October 7, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) referred to Giuseppe Vita in his welcome address at the 2007 Robert Koch Award Ceremony in Berlin , when he spoke of 45 scientists who had been awarded the Robert Koch Medal since 1960.
- ↑ Hans-Dieter Klenk for his scientific life's work on the biology and development of infectious diseases caused by influenza, Ebola and Marburg viruses.
- ↑ Fotis Kafatos for his work on the malaria parasite Plasmodium and its transmission by the anopheles mosquito .
Web links
- Robert Koch Medal in gold on the side of the Robert Koch Foundation