CNRS Gold medal
The CNRS Gold medal is the highest scientific research award in France. It is presented annually by the French National Centre for Scientific Research (CNRS) and was first awarded in 1954. Moreover, Silver Medals are given to researchers for originality, quality, and importance, while Bronze Medals recognize initial fruitful results.[1]
Gold medal recipients
- 2014 Gérard Berry[2]
- 2013 Margaret Buckingham
- 2012 Philippe Descola
- 2011 Jules A. Hoffmann
- 2010 Gérard Férey
- 2009 Serge Haroche
- 2008 Jean Weissenbach
- 2007 Jean Tirole
- 2006 Jacques Stern
- 2005 Alain Aspect
- 2004 Alain Connes
- 2003 Albert Fert
- 2002 Claude Lorius and Jean Jouzel
- 2001 Maurice Godelier
- 2000 Michel Lazdunski
- 1999 Jean-Claude Risset
- 1998 Pierre Potier
- 1997 Jean Rouxel
- 1996 Claude Cohen-Tannoudji
- 1995 Claude Hagège
- 1994 Claude Allègre
- 1993 Pierre Bourdieu
- 1992 Jean-Pierre Changeux
- 1991 Jacques Le Goff
- 1990 Marc Julia
- 1989 Michel Jouvet
- 1988 Philippe Nozieres
- 1987 Georges Canguilhem and Jean-Pierre Serre
- 1986 Nicole Le Douarin
- 1985 Piotr Slonimski
- 1984 Jean Brossel and Jean-Pierre Vernant
- 1983 Evry Schatzman
- 1982 Pierre Joliot
- 1981 Jean-Marie Lehn and Roland Martin
- 1980 Pierre-Gilles De Gennes
- 1979 Pierre Chambon
- 1978 Maurice Allais and Pierre Jacquinot
- 1977 Charles Fehrenbach
- 1976 Henri Cartan
- 1975 Raymond Castaing and Christiane Desroches Noblecourt
- 1974 Edgar Lederer
- 1973 André Leroi-Gourhan
- 1972 Jacques Oudin
- 1971 Bernard Halpern
- 1970 Jacques Friedel
- 1969 Georges Chaudron
- 1968 Boris Ephrussi
- 1967 Claude Lévi-Strauss
- 1966 Paul Pascal
- 1965 Louis Néel
- 1964 Alfred Kastler
- 1963 Robert Courrier
- 1962 Marcel Delepine
- 1961 Pol Bouin
- 1960 Raoul Blanchard
- 1959 André Danjon
- 1958 Gaston Ramon
- 1957 Gaston Dupouy
- 1956 Jacques Hadamard
- 1955 Louis de Broglie
- 1954 Émile Borel
References
- ↑ The CNRS web pages list Gold medal winners since 1954, but Silver and Bronze medal winners only since 2000. However, bestowals for the latter are reported as early as 1958 and 1969, e.g. to Yvonne Choquet-Bruhat and Évariste Sanchez-Palencia, respectively.
- ↑ https://lejournal.cnrs.fr/articles/gerard-berry-medaille-dor-2014-du-cnrs