The Maria Skłodowska-Curie Medal (Medal Marii Skłodowskiej-Curie) is a Polish annual science award conferred by the Polish Chemical Society (Polish: Polskie Towarzystwo Chemiczne, PTCHem) to scientists working permanently abroad for contributions in the field of chemistry. It was named in honour of Polish physicist Maria Skłodowska-Curie (English: Marie Curie) and first awarded in 1996.
The winner receives a bronze medal depicting Marie Curie and on the reverse the Latin inscription Quo Magis Veritas Propagatur as well as the PTCHem logo, year and the name of the laureate. Four laureates of the medal have also been awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry: Roald Hoffmann (1981), Jean Marie Lehn (1987), Ada Yonath (2009) and Ben Feringa (2016).
Laureates The winners of the award so far have been:
Year Laureate(s) Image Country Institution(s) Ref. 2022 Jean Marie Lehn University of Strasbourg 2021 Volodymyr M. Gun’ko Chuiko Institute of Surface Chemistry, National Academy of Science of Ukraine 2020 Karl Anker Jørgensen Aarhus University 2019 Roald Hoffmann Cornell University 2018 Jacek Klinowski University of Cambridge 2017 Krzysztof Palczewski University of California, Irvine 2016 Mietek Jaroniec Kent State University 2015 Janusz Pawliszyn University of Waterloo 2014 John Joule University of Manchester 2013 Ben Feringa University of Groningen 2012 Krzysztof Matyjaszewski Carnegie Mellon University 2011 Roland Boese University of Duisburg-Essen Nicole J. Moreau University of Paris Ada Yonath Hebrew University of Jerusalem 2010 Anton Amann Innsbruck Medical University 2007 Jerzy Leszczyński Jackson State University 2005 Tadeusz Maliński Ohio University 2003 Ivar Olovsson Uppsala University 2002 Vilim Simanek Palacký University Olomouc 2001 Gerald Djega-Mariadassou Pierre and Marie Curie University Józef Hurwic Aix-Marseille University 2000 Gerard Descotes University of Lyon Christian Reichardt University of Marburg 1997 Philip Kocienski University of Leeds 1996 Lodovico R. di Sanseverino University of Bologna
Notes Sites of the work places of the Laureates at the time of the award.
See also Prize of the Foundation for Polish Science Marian Smoluchowski Medal Kołos Medal
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