Leopoldina Cothenius Medal | |
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Awarded for | Outstanding research in any branch of science |
Sponsored by | German National Academy of Sciences Leopoldina |
Country | Germany |
First awarded | 1792 |
Website | Cothenius Medal |
Cothenius Medal is a medal awarded by the German National Academy of Sciences Leopoldina (known as the Leopoldina) for outstanding scientific achievement during the life of the awardee. [1] The medal was created to honour Christian Andreas Cothenius, who was the personal physician to Frederick the Great. [2] In 1743, Cothenius became a fellow of the Leopoldina, later president of the learned society that had been created by Emperor Leopold I. [2] When Cothenius died, he left a sum of money in his will to the society with the condition that the interest on the money should be used to award a gold medal, every two years by answering a question in medicine whereby some new truth could be established. [2] Up until 1864, the award came with a prize but was then converted into an award for the promotion of research over the whole period of a person's life. [3] Each medal bears the Latin inscription "Praemium virtutis salutem mortalium provehentibus sancitum" (Created in recognition of the ability of those who promote the good of mortals). [1]
Year | Image | Laureate | Discipline | City | Ref |
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2023 | Jürgen Troe (born 1940) | Physical Chemistry | Göttingen | [4] | |
2021 | Rudolf K. Thauer (born 1939) | Microbiology/Immunology | Marburg | [5] | |
2021 | Werner Kühlbrandt (born 1951) | Biochemistry/Structural Biology | Frankfurt | [6] | |
2019 | Klaus Müllen (born 1947) | Chemistry | Mainz | [7] | |
2019 | Walter Neupert (1939–2019) | Biochemistry and cell biology | Martinsried | [8] | |
2017 | Fritz Melchers (born 1936) | Cell biology | Berlin | [9] | |
2017 | Joachim Trümper (born 1933) | X-ray astronomy | Garching | [10] | |
2015 | Herbert Gleiter (born 1938) | Physics | Karlsruhe | [11] | |
2015 | Otto Ludwig Lange (1927–2017) | Biology | Würzburg | [12] | |
2013 | Gunter S. Fischer (born 1943) | Chemistry | Halle | [13] | |
2013 | Wolf Singer (born 1943) | Neurosciences | Frankfurt | [14] | |
2011 | Bert Hölldobler (born 1936) | Zoology | Würzburg | [15] | |
2011 | Anna M. Wobus (born 1945) | Human genetics and molecular medicine | Gatersleben | [16] | |
2011 | Ulrich Wobus (born 1942) | Genetics/Molecular Biology | Gatersleben | ||
2009 | Karl Decker (1925–2024) | Biochemistry | [17] | ||
2009 | Eduard Seidler (1929–2020) | History of medicine | [13] | ||
2007 | Klaus Wolff (1935–2019) | Dermatology | Vienna | [18] | |
2007 | Sigrid Doris Peyerimhoff (born 1937) | Physical chemistry | Bonn | [19] [20] | |
2005 | Hans Günter Schlegel (1924–2013) | Microbiology | Göttingen | [13] | |
2005 | Alfred Gierer (born 1929) | Molecular biologist | [13] | ||
2003 | Ernst J. M. Helmreich (1922–2017) | Biochemistry | Würzburg | [21] | |
2003 | Benno Parthier (1932–2019) | Cell biology | [22] | ||
2003 | Andreas Oksche (1926–2017) | Anatomy | Giessen | [23] | |
2001 | Leopold Horner (1911–2005) | Chemistry | Mainz | [24] | |
2001 | Heinz Jagodzinski (1916–2012) | Physics | Munich | [25] | |
2000 | Hans Mohr (1930–2016) | Plant physiologist | Freiburg | [26] | |
1999 | Rudolf Rott (1926–2003) | Veterinary medicine | Giessen | [27] | |
1999 | Dorothea Kuhn (1923–2015) | History of science and medicine | Marbach | ||
1997 | Otto Braun-Falco (1922–2018) | Dermatology | Munich | [28] | |
1997 | Friedrich Hirzebruch (1927–2012) | Mathematics | Bonn | [29] | |
1995 | Wilhelm Doerr (1914–1996) | Pathology | Heidelberg | [30] | |
1995 | Gottfried Möllenstedt (1912–1997) | Physics | Tübingen | ||
1995 | Dietrich Schneider (1919–2008) | Zoology | Starnberg | [31] | |
1993 | Wolfgang Gerok ( (1926–2021) | Internal Medicine | Freiburg | [32] | |
1993 | Bernhard Hassenstein (1922–2016) | Zoologie | Freiburg | [33] | |
1991 | Heinz Röhrer (1905–1992) | Veterinary Medicine | Rathenow | [34] | |
1991 | Albert Eschenmoser (1925–2023) | Chemistry | Küsnacht | [35] | |
1989 | Sir Bernhard Katz (1911–2003) | Physiology | London | [36] | |
1989 | Jürgen Tonndorf (1914–1989) | Otorhinolaryngology | New York | [37] | |
1989 | Heinz Bethge (1919–2001) | Physics | [38] | ||
1987 | Rostislaw Kaischew (1908–1990) | Physical Chemistry | Sofia | [39] | |
1987 | Adolf Watznauer (1907–1995) | Geology | Karl-Marx-Stadt | [40] | |
1985 | Konrad Zuse (1910–1995) | Computer technology | Hünfeld | [41] | |
1985 | Hermann Flohn (1912–1997) | Climatology | Bonn | [13] | |
1983 | Wolf von Engelhardt (1910–2008) | Mineralogy | Tübingen | [13] | |
1983 | Erna Lesky (1911–1986) | History of Medicine | Innsbruck | [42] | |
1980 | Wilhelm Jost (1903–1988) | Physical Chemistry | Göttingen | [43] | |
1980 | Peter Friedrich Matzen (1909–1986) | Orthopaedics | Leipzig | [44] | |
1977 | Wolfgang Gentner (1906–1980) | Physics | Heidelberg | [45] | |
1977 | Arnold Graffi (1910–2006) | General Biology | Berlin | [46] | |
1975 | Ilya Prigogine (1917–1988) | Physical Chemistry | Brussels/Austin | [47] | |
1975 | Ernst Ruska (1906–1996) | Physics | Berlin | [48] | |
1974 | Viktor Ambartsumian (1908–1996) | Astronomy | Yerevan | [49] | |
1973 | Albrecht Unsöld (1905–1995) | Astronomy | Kiel | [50] | |
1972 | Erwin Reichenbach (1897–1973) | Stomatology | [51] | ||
1971 | Otto Kratky (1902–1995) | Physical Chemistry | Graz | [52] | |
1971 | Friedrich Hund (1896–1997) | Göttingen | Physics | [53] | |
1969 | Pavel Alexandrov (1896–1982) | Mathematics | Moscow | [13] | |
1969 | Helmut Hasse (1898–1979) | Mathematics | Hamburg | [54] | |
1969 | Bartel Leendert van der Waerden (1903 - 1996) | Mathematics | Zürich | [13] | |
1967 | Vladimir Engelgardt (1894–1984) | Physiological Chemistry | Moscow | [13] | |
1967 | Karl Lohmann (1898–1978) | Physiological Chemistry | Berlin | [55] | |
1966 | Archibald Vivian Hill (1886–1977) | Physiology | Cambridge (GB) | [56] | |
1965 | Hans Hermann Bennhold (1893–1976) | Internal Medicine | Tübingen | [57] | |
1965 | Ernst Derra (1901–1979) | Surgery | Düsseldorf | [13] | |
1964 | Wolfgang von Buddenbrock-Hettersdorff (1884–1964) | Zoology | Mainz | [58] | |
1961 | Max Bürger (1885–1966) | Internal Medicine | Leipzig | [59] | |
1960 | Kurt Mothes (1900–1983) | Botany | Halle | [60] | |
1960 | John Eccles (1903–1997) | Physiology | Canberra | [61] | |
1959 | George de Hevesy (1885–1966) | Physical Chemistry | Stockholm | [62] | |
1959 | Pyotr Kapitsa (1894–1984) | Physics | Moscow | [63] | |
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Cothenius Medal awardees, 1864–1953 is a list of Cothenius Medal awardees for the period between 1864 and 1953.