Treviranus Medal

The Treviranus Medal was awarded by the Association of German Biologists and Bioscientific Societies (vdbiol - since 2007 "Association of Biology, Biosciences and Biomedicine in Germany VBIO eV") in memory of the Bremen doctor Gottfried Reinhold Treviranus (1776–1837), who coined the term " biology ". Between 1994 and 2013 they received high-ranking scientists who campaigned in a special way for the public image of the life sciences.

Award winners

• 1994 Paul Präve (vdbiol-President 1983-88), Frankfurt / Hoechst
• 1996 Hubert Markl , Constance
• 1997 Dieter Rodi , Schwäbisch Gmünd
• 1998 Manfred Gärtner († 2018), Dresden
• 1999 Horst Bayrhuber , Kiel and Wieslaw Stawinski , Krakau (Poland)
• 2000 Ernst-Ludwig Winnacker , Bonn
• 2001 Wilhelm Barthlott , Bonn and Roland Hedewig , Kassel
• 2002 Detlev Ganten , Berlin and Ilse Jahn , Bremen
• 2003 Ernst Mayr , Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) and Ernst Peter Fischer , Konstanz
• 2004 Werner Nachtigall , Saarbrücken
• 2005 Josef H. Reichholf , Munich
• 2006 Bert Hölldobler , Würzburg
• 2008 Günter Tembrock , Berlin
• 2009 Peter Sitte , Freiburg
• 2011 Holger Zinke , Zwingenberg
• 2013 Erwin Beck , Bayreuth

Web links

• Treviranus Medal ( Memento from June 12, 2017 in the Internet Archive )