The Pius XI Medal is an award presented every second year by the Pontifical Academy of Sciences to a promising scientist under the age of 45.
Winners of the Pius XI Medal (1939-2020) 1939 Corneille Heymans (Belgium) Physiology 1942 Harlow Shapley (United States) Astronomy 1943 Emmanuel de Margerie (France) Geography 1962 Bengt E. Andersson (Sweden) Life Sciences 1963 Aage Bohr (Denmark) Physics 1964 François Gros (France) Life Sciences 1966 Allan Sandage (USA) Astronomy 1969 Robert Burns Woodward (USA) Chemistry 1970 Haruo Kanatani (Japan) Life Sciences 1972 György Némethy (Hungary) Physics 1975 Stephen W. Hawking (UK) Astronomy 1976 Lucio Luzzatto (Italy) Life Sciences 1979 Antonio Paes de Carvalho (Brazil) Life Sciences 1981 Jean-Marie Lehn (France) Chemistry 1983 Gerardus t'Hooft (Netherlands) Physics 1986 Elizabeth Bernays (Australia) Life Sciences 1988 Luis Caffarelli (Argentina) Mathematics 1992 Adi Shamir (Israel) Other Disciplines 1996 Mark M. Davis (USA) Chemistry 2000 Gillian Bates (UK) Life Sciences 2000 Stephen W. Davies (UK) Life Sciences 2002 Stanislas Dehaene (France) Life Sciences 2002 Juan M. Maldacena (Argentina) Physics 2004 Laure Saint-Raymond (France) Mathematics 2006 Ashoke Sen (India) Physics 2008 Juan A. Larraín (Chile) Life Sciences 2010 Patrick Mehlen (France) Biology 2012 Trees-Juen Chuang (Taiwan) Genomics 2012 Ulrich Pöschl (Austria) Chemistry 2014 Cédric Villani (France) MathematicsPDF award info 2016 Mariano Sigman (Argentina) Neurosciences 2018 Noble Ephraim Banadda (Uganda), David M. Sabatini (USA) and Miriam Serena Vitiello (Italia) 2020 Demis Hassabis (UK) Computer Science, Peter Scholze (Germany) Mathematics
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External links Home page of the Pontifical Academy of Sciences