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, Silver Medals are given to researchers for originality, quality, and importance, while Bronze Medals recognize initial fruitful results.

Gold medal recipients

2016 Claire Voisin - Mathematics

2015 Éric Karsenti - Biology

2014 Gérard Berry - Computer-Sciences

2013 Margaret Buckingham - Developmental Biology

2012 Philippe Descola - Anthropology

2011 Jules A. Hoffmann - Biology

2010 Gérard Férey - Chemistry

2009 Serge Haroche - Physics

2008 Jean Weissenbach - Genetics

2007 Jean Tirole - Economics

2006 Jacques Stern - Computer-Sciences

2005 Alain Aspect - Physics

2004 Alain Connes - Mathematics

2003 Albert Fert - Physics

2002 Claude Lorius - Climatology, and Jean Jouzel - Climatology

2001 Maurice Godelier - Anthropology

2000 Michel Lazdunski - Biochemistry

1999 Jean-Claude Risset - Computer-Music

1998 Pierre Potier - Chemistry

1997 Jean Rouxel - Chemistry

1996 Claude Cohen-Tannoudji - Physics

1995 Claude Hagège - Linguistics

1994 Claude Allègre - Geophysics

1993 Pierre Bourdieu - Sociology

1992 Jean-Pierre Changeux - Neurobiology

1991 Jacques Le Goff - History

1990 Marc Julia - Chemistry

1989 Michel Jouvet - Biology

1988 Philippe Nozieres - Physics

1987 Georges Canguilhem - Philosophy, and Jean-Pierre Serre - Mathematics

1986 Nicole Le Douarin - Embryology

1985 Piotr Slonimski - Genetics

1984 Jean Brossel - Physics, and Jean-Pierre Vernant - History

1983 Evry Schatzman - Astrophysics

1982 Pierre Joliot - Biochemistry

1981 Jean-Marie Lehn - Chemistry, and Roland Martin - Archaeology

1980 Pierre-Gilles De Gennes - Physics

1979 Pierre Chambon - Biology

1978 Maurice Allais - Economics, and Pierre Jacquinot - Physics

1977 Charles Fehrenbach - Astronomy

1976 Henri Cartan - Mathematics

1975 Raymond Castaing - Physics, and Christiane Desroches Noblecourt - Egyptology

1974 Edgar Lederer - Biochemistry

1973 André Leroi-Gourhan - Ethnology

1972 Jacques Oudin - Immunology

1971 Bernard Halpern - Immunology

1970 Jacques Friedel - Physics

1969 Georges Chaudron - Chemistry

1968 Boris Ephrussi - Genetics

1967 Claude Lévi-Strauss - Ethnology

1966 Paul Pascal - Chemistry

1965 Louis Néel - Physics

1964 Alfred Kastler - Physics

1963 Robert Courrier - Biology

1962 Marcel Delépine - Chemistry

1961 Pol Bouin - Physiology

1960 Raoul Blanchard - Geography

1959 André Danjon - Astrophysics

1958 Gaston Ramon - Immunology

1957 Gaston Dupouy - Physics

1956 Jacques Hadamard - Mathematics

1955 Louis de Broglie - Physics

1954 Émile Borel - Mathematics

References

CNRS Gold medal Wikipedia

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