CNRS Gold medalists

Since it was created in 1954, the CNRS Gold Medal is awarded annually to scientific figures who have made an exceptional contribution, in a range of disciplines, to the innovation and influence of French research. It is presented to eminent, internationally renowned scientists for their career and work.

 

• 2012 - Philippe Descola (anthropologist)
• 2011 - Jules Hoffmann (biology) - press release (Nobel Prize in physiology or medecine 2011)
• 2010 - Gérard FÉREY (chemistry) - press release
• 2009 - Serge HAROCHE (physics) - press release
• 2008 - Jean WEISSENBACH (genetics) - press release
• 2007 - Jean TIROLE (economy)
• 2006 - Jacques STERN (computer science)
• 2005 - Alain ASPECT (physics)
• 2004 - Alain CONNES (mathematics) (Fields medal 1982)
• 2003 - Albert FERT (physics)
• 2002 - Claude LORIUS et Jean JOUZEL (climatology)
• 2001 - Maurice GODELIER (anthropology)
• 2000 - Michel LAZDUNSKI (biochemistry)
• 1999 - Jean-Claude RISSET (computer music)
• 1998 - Pierre POTIER (chemistry)
• 1997 - Jean ROUXEL (chemistry)
• 1996 - Claude COHEN-TANNOUDJI (physics) (Nobel Prize in physics 1997)
• 1995 - Claude HAGEGE (linguistics)
• 1994 - Claude ALLEGRE (Earth physics)
• 1993 - Pierre BOURDIEU (sociology)
• 1992 - Jean-Pierre CHANGEUX (neurobiology)
• 1991 - Jacques LE GOFF (history)
• 1990 - Marc JULIA (chemistry)
• 1989 - Michel JOUVET (biology)
• 1988 - Philippe NOZIERES (physics)
• 1987 - Georges CANGUILHEM (philosophy) et Jean-Pierre SERRE (mathematics) (Fields medal 1954)
• 1986 - Nicole LE DOUARIN (embryology)
• 1985 - Piotr SLONIMSKI (genetics)
• 1984 - Jean BROSSEL (physics) et Jean-Pierre VERNANT (history)
• 1983 - Evry SCHATZMAN ( astrophysics)
• 1982 - Pierre JOLIOT (biochemistry)
• 1981 - Jean-Marie LEHN (chemistry) (Nobel Prize in chemistry 1987) et Roland MARTIN (archeology)
• 1980 - Pierre-Gilles de GENNES (physics) (Nobel Prize in physics 1991)
• 1979 - Pierre CHAMBON (biology)
• 1978 - Maurice ALLAIS (economics) (Nobel Prize in economics 1988) et Pierre JACQUINOT (physics)
• 1977 - Charles FEHRENBACH (astronomy)
• 1976 - Henri CARTAN (mathematics)
• 1975 - Raymond CASTAING (physics) et Christiane DESROCHES-NOBLECOURT (egyptology)
• 1974 - Edgar LEDERER (biochemistry)
• 1973 - André LEROI-GOURHAN (ethnology)
• 1972 - Jacques OUDIN (immunology)
• 1971 - Bernard HALPERN (immunology)
• 1970 - Jacques FRIEDEL (physics)
• 1969 - Georges CHAUDRON (chemistry)
• 1968 - Boris EPHRUSSI (genetics)
• 1967 - Claude LEVI-STRAUSS (ethnologie)
• 1966 - Paul PASCAL (chemistry)
• 1965 - Louis NEEL (physics) (Nobel Prize in physics 1970)
• 1964 - Alfred KASTLER (physics) (Nobel Prize in physics 1966)
• 1963 - Robert COURRIER (biology)
• 1962 - Marcel DELEPINE (chemistry)
• 1961 - Pol BOUIN (physiology)
• 1960 - Raoul BLANCHARD (geography)
• 1959 - André DANJON (astrophysics)
• 1958 - Gaston RAMON (immunology)
• 1957 - Gaston DUPOUY (physics)
• 1956 - Jacques HADAMARD (mathematics)
• 1955 - Louis de BROGLIE (physics) (Nobel Prize in physics 1929)
• 1954 - Emile BOREL (mathematics)

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