CNRS Gold Medal

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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, the CNRS Silver Medal is given to researchers for originality, quality, and importance, while the CNRS Bronze Medal recognizes initial fruitful results. [lower-alpha 1]

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Gold medal recipients

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  1. 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.

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References

  1. "Gérard Berry, médaille d'or 2014 du CNRS" (in French). CNRS. 2014-09-24. Retrieved 2019-08-18.
  2. "Biologist Eric Karsenti is awarded the 2015 CNRS Gold Medal". CNRS. 2015-09-23. Archived from the original on 2018-05-26. Retrieved 2019-08-18. Archive index at the Wayback Machine
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