CNRS Gold medal
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The highest scientific research award in France, which is presented annually by the French National Centre for Scientific Research (CNRS), is the CNRS Gold medal, first awarded in 1954. Past recipients of the Gold medal are
- 2011 Jules A. HoffmannJules A. HoffmannJules A. Hoffmann is a Luxembourgish-born French biologist. He is a research director and member of the board of administrators of the National Center of Scientific Research in Strasbourg, France. In 2007, he became President of the French Academy of Sciences...
- 2010 Gérard Férey
- 2009 Serge HarocheSerge HarocheSerge Haroche is a French physicist. Since 2001 Haroche has been a Professor at the Collège de France and holds the Chair of Quantum Physics.-Biography:...
- 2008 Jean WeissenbachJean WeissenbachJean Weissenbach is the current director of the Genoscope. He is one of the pioneers of the sequencing and analysis of the genomes.-References:...
- 2007 Jean TiroleJean TiroleJean Marcel Tirole is a French professor of economics. He works on industrial organization, game theory, banking and finance, and economics and psychology. Tirole is director of the Jean-Jacques Laffont Foundation at the Toulouse School of Economics, and scientific director of the Industrial...
- 2006 Jacques SternJacques SternJacques Stern is a cryptographer, currently a professor at the École Normale Supérieure, where he is Director of the Computer Science Laboratory. He received the 2006 CNRS Gold Medal...
- 2005 Alain AspectAlain AspectAlain Aspect is a French physicist noted for his experimental work on quantum entanglement....
- 2004 Alain ConnesAlain ConnesAlain Connes is a French mathematician, currently Professor at the Collège de France, IHÉS, The Ohio State University and Vanderbilt University.-Work:...
- 2003 Albert FertAlbert FertAlbert Fert is a French physicist and one of the discoverers of giant magnetoresistance which brought about a breakthrough in gigabyte hard disks...
- 2002 Claude LoriusClaude LoriusClaude Lorius is a French glaciologist. He is currently director emeritus of research at CNRS. He was the director of the Laboratoire de glaciologie et geophysique de l'environnement in Grenoble from 1983 to 1988....
and Jean JouzelJean JouzelJean Jouzel, is a French glaciologist and climatologist. He is a world renowned specialist in major climatic shifts based on his analysis of Antarctic and Greenland ice... - 2001 Maurice GodelierMaurice GodelierBorn in Cambrai, France in 28 February 1934, Maurice Godelier is one of the most influential names in French anthropology. Directeur d'études at the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales...
- 2000 Michel Lazdunski
- 1999 Jean-Claude RissetJean-Claude RissetJean-Claude Risset is a French composer, best known for his pioneering contributions to computer music. He is a former student of André Jolivet and former co-worker of Max Mathews at Bell Labs....
- 1998 Pierre Potier
- 1997 Jean Rouxel
- 1996 Claude Cohen-TannoudjiClaude Cohen-TannoudjiClaude Cohen-Tannoudji is a French physicist and Nobel Laureate. He shared the 1997 Nobel Prize in Physics with Steven Chu and William Daniel Phillips for research in methods of laser cooling and trapping atoms...
- 1995 Claude HagegeClaude HagègeClaude Hagège is a French linguist.He was elected to the Collège de France in 1988.- Publications :* La Langue mbum de nganha cameroun - phonologie - grammaire, Klincksieck, 1970...
- 1994 Claude AllegreClaude AllègreClaude Allègre is a French politician and scientist.- Scientific work :The main scientific area of Claude Allègre is geochemistry....
- 1993 Pierre BourdieuPierre BourdieuPierre Bourdieu was a French sociologist, anthropologist, and philosopher.Starting from the role of economic capital for social positioning, Bourdieu pioneered investigative frameworks and terminologies such as cultural, social, and symbolic capital, and the concepts of habitus, field or location,...
- 1992 Jean-Pierre ChangeuxJean-Pierre ChangeuxJean-Pierre Changeux is a French neuroscientist known for his research in several fields of biology, from the structure and function of proteins , to the early development of the nervous system up to cognitive functions...
- 1991 Jacques Le GoffJacques Le GoffJacques Le Goff is a prolific French historian specializing in the Middle Ages, particularly the 12th and 13th centuries....
- 1990 Marc JuliaMarc JuliaMarc Julia was a French chemist and the winner of the 1990 CNRS Gold Medal in chemistry. He discovered the Julia olefination reaction in 1973.-Biography:...
- 1989 Michel JouvetMichel JouvetMichel Valentin Marcel Jouvet is Emeritus Professor of Experimental Medicine at the University of Lyon. He spent one year in the laboratory of the Horace Magoun in Long Beach, California in 1955...
- 1988 Philippe NozieresPhilippe NozieresPhilippe Nozières is a French physicist working at Institut Laue-Langevin in Grenoble, France.- Academic career :Nozières studied at École Normale Supérieure in Paris and conducted research at Princeton University in Princeton, New Jersey. He has served as a professor at the University of Paris...
- 1987 Georges CanguilhemGeorges CanguilhemGeorges Canguilhem was a French philosopher and physician who specialized in epistemology and the philosophy of science .-Life and work:...
and Jean-Pierre SerreJean-Pierre SerreJean-Pierre Serre is a French mathematician. He has made contributions in the fields of algebraic geometry, number theory, and topology.-Early years:... - 1986 Nicole Le Douarin
- 1985 Piotr Slonimski
- 1984 Jean Brossel and Jean-Pierre VernantJean-Pierre VernantJean-Pierre Vernant was a French historian and anthropologist, specialist in ancient Greece. Influenced by Claude Lévi-Strauss, Vernant developed a structuralist approach to Greek myth, tragedy, and society which would itself be influential among classical scholars...
- 1983 Evry SchatzmanÉvry SchatzmanEvry Léon Schatzman was a French astrophysicist.His father, Benjamin Schatzman, was a dentist born in Tulcea, Romania and emigrated at a young age with his family in Palestine. Schatzman began his studies at the École Normale Supérieure in November 1939...
- 1982 Pierre JoliotPierre JoliotPierre Joliot is a noted French biologist and researcher for the CNRS. A researcher there since 1956, he became a Director of Research in 1974 and a member of their scientific council in 1992. He was a scientific advisor to the French Prime Minister from 1985 to 1986 and is a member of Academia...
- 1981 Jean-Marie LehnJean-Marie LehnJean-Marie Lehn is a French chemist. He received the Nobel Prize together with Donald Cram and Charles Pedersen in 1987 for his work in Chemistry, particularly his synthesis of the cryptands...
and Roland MartinRoland MartinRoland Martin may refer to:* Roland Martin , host of American fishing show on TV channel Versus* Roland S. Martin, American author and syndicated columnist... - 1980 Pierre-Gilles De GennesPierre-Gilles de GennesPierre-Gilles de Gennes was a French physicist and the Nobel Prize laureate in physics in 1991.-Biography:...
- 1979 Pierre Chambon
- 1978 Maurice AllaisMaurice AllaisMaurice Félix Charles Allais was a French economist, and was the 1988 winner of the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economics "for his pioneering contributions to the theory of markets and efficient utilization of resources."...
and Pierre Jacquinot - 1977 Charles FehrenbachCharles Fehrenbach (astronomer)Charles Fehrenbach was a French astronomer and member of the French Academy of Sciences. He was director of the Observatoire de Haute Provence until 1983....
- 1976 Henri CartanHenri CartanHenri Paul Cartan was a French mathematician with substantial contributions in algebraic topology. He was the son of the French mathematician Élie Cartan.-Life:...
- 1975 Raymond Castaing and Christiane Desroches NoblecourtChristiane Desroches NoblecourtChristiane Desroches Noblecourt was a French Egyptologist. She was the author of many books on Egyptian art and history and was also known for her role in the preservation of the Nubian temples from flooding caused by the Aswan Dam.-Background:She was born Christiane Desroches on November 17...
- 1974 Edgar Lederer
- 1973 André Leroi-GourhanAndré Leroi-GourhanAndré Leroi-Gourhan was a French archaeologist, paleontologist, paleoanthropologist, and anthropologist with an interest in technology and aesthetics and a penchant for philosophical reflection.- Biography :...
- 1972 Jacques Oudin
- 1971 Bernard Halpern
- 1970 Jacques FriedelJacques FriedelJacques Friedel FMRS is a French physicist and material scientist.-Life:His great-grand father Charles Friedel was an organic chemist and crystallographer at Paris-Sorbonne University, his grand-father Georges Friedel worked on liquid crystals, and his father Edmond Friedel was the director of the...
- 1969 Georges Chaudron
- 1968 Boris EphrussiBoris EphrussiBoris Ephrussi , Professor of Genetics at the University of Paris, was a Russo-French geneticist from the Ephrussi family.His father, Samuil Osipovich Ephrussi, was a chemical engineer; his grandfather, Joseph Ephrusi , was the founder of a banking dynasty in Kishinev. He published two papers in...
- 1967 Claude Lévi-StraussClaude Lévi-StraussClaude Lévi-Strauss was a French anthropologist and ethnologist, and has been called, along with James George Frazer, the "father of modern anthropology"....
- 1966 Paul Pascal
- 1965 Louis Néel
- 1964 Alfred KastlerAlfred KastlerAlfred Kastler was a French physicist, and Nobel Prize laureate.Kastler was born in Guebwiller and later attended the Lycée Bartholdi in Colmar, Alsace, and École Normale Supérieure in Paris in 1921...
- 1963 Robert Courrier
- 1962 Marcel Delepine
- 1961 Pol Bouin
- 1960 Raoul Blanchard
- 1959 André DanjonAndré DanjonAndré-Louis Danjon was a French astronomer born in Caen.Danjon devised a method to measure "Earthshine" on the Moon using a telescope in which a prism split the Moon's image into two identical side-by-side images...
- 1958 Gaston RamonGaston RamonGaston Ramon was a French veterinarian and biologist best known for his role in the treatment of diphtheria and tetanus.He was born in Bellechaume and attended l'École vétérinaire d'Alfort from 1906 to 1910...
- 1957 Gaston Dupouy
- 1956 Jacques HadamardJacques HadamardJacques Salomon Hadamard FRS was a French mathematician who made major contributions in number theory, complex function theory, differential geometry and partial differential equations.-Biography:...
- 1955 Louis de Broglie
- 1954 Émile BorelÉmile BorelFélix Édouard Justin Émile Borel was a French mathematician and politician.Borel was born in Saint-Affrique, Aveyron. Along with René-Louis Baire and Henri Lebesgue, he was among the pioneers of measure theory and its application to probability theory. The concept of a Borel set is named in his...