The Leeuwenhoek Medal, established in 1877 by the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences, (KNAW), in honor of the 17th- and 18th-century microscopist Antoni van Leeuwenhoek, is granted every ten years to the scientist judged to have made the most significant contribution to microbiology during the preceding decade. From 2015 the Royal Dutch Society for Microbiology (KNVM) will be awarding the Leeuwenhoek Medal.
Recipients
Source: KNVM
1877 Christian Gottfried Ehrenberg, Germany
1885 Ferdinand Cohn, Germany
1895 Louis Pasteur, France
1905 Martinus Beijerinck, Netherlands
1915 Sir David Bruce, United Kingdom
1925 Félix d'Herelle, (at the time) Egypt
1935 Sergei Nikolaevitch Winogradsky, France
1950 Selman Abraham Waksman, United States
1960 André Lwoff, France
1970 Cornelius Bernardus van Niel (Kees van Niel), United States
