The Leeuwenhoek Medal, established in 1875 by the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences (KNAW), in honor of the 17th- and 18th-century microscopist Antoni van Leeuwenhoek, is granted every ten years to the scientist judged to have made the most significant contribution to microbiology during the preceding decade. Starting in 2015, the Royal Dutch Society for Microbiology (KNVM) began awarding the Leeuwenhoek Medal, selecting Jillian Banfield, the first woman to receive the award in 2023.
Recipients The following persons have received the Leeuwenhoek medal:
1877 Christian Gottfried Ehrenberg, Germany 1885 Ferdinand Cohn, Germany 1895 Louis Pasteur, France 1905 Martinus Beijerinck, Netherlands 1915 Sir David Bruce, United Kingdom 1925 Félix d'Herelle, (at the time) Egypt 1935 Sergei Nikolaevitch Winogradsky, France 1950 Selman Abraham Waksman, United States 1960 André Lwoff, France 1970 Cornelius Bernardus van Niel (Kees van Niel), United States 1981 Roger Yate Stanier, France 1992 Carl Woese, United States 2003 Karl Stetter, Germany 2015 Craig Venter, United States of America 2023 Jillian Banfield, Australia
See also Royal Society Leeuwenhoek Lecture List of biology awards
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