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.
Gold medal recipients
1954 Émile Borel – Mathematics 1955 Louis de Broglie – Physics 1956 Jacques Hadamard – Mathematics 1957 – Physics 1958 Gaston Ramon – Immunology 1959 André Danjon – Astrophysics 1960 Raoul Blanchard – Geography 1961 Pol Bouin – Physiology 1962 Marcel Delépine – Chemistry 1963 Robert Courrier – Biology 1964 Alfred Kastler – Physics 1965 Louis Néel – Physics 1966 Paul Pascal – Chemistry 1967 Claude Lévi-Strauss – Ethnology 1968 Boris Ephrussi – Genetics 1969 – Chemistry 1970 Jacques Friedel – Physics 1971 – Immunology 1972 Jacques Oudin – Immunology 1973 André Leroi-Gourhan – Ethnology 1974 – Biochemistry 1975 Raymond Castaing – Physics, and Christiane Desroches Noblecourt – Egyptology 1976 Henri Cartan – Mathematics 1977 Charles Fehrenbach – Astronomy 1978 Maurice Allais – Economics, and Pierre Jacquinot – Physics 1979 Pierre Chambon – Biology 1980 Pierre-Gilles De Gennes – Physics 1981 Jean-Marie Lehn – Chemistry, and Roland Martin – Archaeology 1982 Pierre Joliot – Biochemistry 1983 Evry Schatzman – Astrophysics 1984 Jean Brossel – Physics, and Jean-Pierre Vernant – History 1985 Piotr Slonimski – Genetics 1986 Nicole Le Douarin – Embryology 1987 Georges Canguilhem – Philosophy, and Jean-Pierre Serre – Mathematics 1988 Philippe Nozieres – Physics 1989 Michel Jouvet – Biology 1990 Marc Julia – Chemistry 1991 Jacques Le Goff – History 1992 Jean-Pierre Changeux – Neurobiology 1993 Pierre Bourdieu – Sociology 1994 Claude Allègre – Geophysics 1995 Claude Hagège – Linguistics 1996 Claude Cohen-Tannoudji – Physics 1997 Jean Rouxel – Chemistry 1998 Pierre Potier – Chemistry 1999 Jean-Claude Risset – Computer-Music 2000 Michel Lazdunski – Biochemistry 2001 Maurice Godelier – Anthropology 2002 Claude Lorius – Climatology, and Jean Jouzel – Climatology 2003 Albert Fert – Physics 2004 Alain Connes – Mathematics 2005 Alain Aspect – Physics 2006 Jacques Stern – Computer-Sciences 2007 Jean Tirole – Economics 2008 Jean Weissenbach – Genetics 2009 Serge Haroche – Physics 2010 Gérard Férey – Chemistry 2011 Jules A. Hoffmann – Biology 2012 Philippe Descola – Anthropology 2013 Margaret Buckingham – Developmental Biology 2014 Gérard Berry – Computer-Sciences 2015 Éric Karsenti – Biology 2016 Claire Voisin – Mathematics 2017 Alain Brillet – Physics, and Thibault Damour – Physics 2018 Barbara Cassin – Philosophy 2019 Thomas Ebbesen – Physical chemistry 2020 Françoise Combes – Astrophysics 2021 Jean Dalibard – Physics 2022 Jean-Marie Tarascon – Chemistry 2023 Sandra Lavorel – Ecology 2024 Edith Heard – Biology 2025 Stéphane Mallat – Mathematics and Computer Science 2026 Jacqueline Bloch – PhysicsLaureate 2026
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