The Leeuwenhoek Medal, established in 1875 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.[1] Starting in 2015, the Royal Dutch Society for Microbiology (KNVM) began awarding the Leeuwenhoek Medal, selecting Jillian Banfield, the first woman to receive the award in 2023.[2][3]
Recipients
editThe following persons have received the Leeuwenhoek medal:[4]
- 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
- 1981 Roger Yate Stanier, France
- 1992 Carl Woese, United States
- 2003 Karl Stetter, Germany
- 2015 Craig Venter, United States of America
- 2023 Jillian Banfield, Australia
See also
editReferences
edit- ^
Harting, P. (1876). "Mikroskopische wezens, door Antony van Leeuwenhoek". Google books (in Dutch). Martinus Nijhoff, van Hengel en Eeltjes. Archived from the original on 2023-11-04. Retrieved 2023-11-04.
[...] een fonds bijeen te brengen voor een blijvend gedenkteeken ter eere van de nagedachtenis van LEEUWENHOEK, bestaande in eene gouden medaille, die LEEUWENHOEK-MEDAILLE zal genoemd en om de tien jaar aan dengene, Nederlander of Buitenlander, zal worden uitgereikt, die geacht zal worden in dat tijdsverloop, of vroeger, het meest ter vermeerdering onzer kennis der microscopische wezens te hebben bijgedragen. ([...] to raise a fund for a permanent memorial in honor of the memory of LEEUWENHOEK, consisting of a gold medal, which will be called LEEUWENHOEK MEDAL and will be awarded every ten years to the person, Dutch or Foreigner, who will be considered that lapse of time, or earlier, has contributed most to our knowledge of microscopic beings.)
- ^ "Leeuwenhoek Medal". KNVM. Archived from the original on 6 October 2014. Retrieved 10 January 2015.
- ^ Microbiologie, Koninklijke Nederlandse Vereniging voor. "van Leeuwenhoek Medal 2023". KNVM. Retrieved 2023-02-13.
- ^ "Previous awardees". KNVM. Archived from the original on 2023-06-07. Retrieved 2023-11-04.