Medals
Medals of Merit
These medals are awarded by the Presidium “for exceptional service to the ideals and good of the Academy”, and bear the portrait and name of the recipient. The medals have been awarded at irregular intervals since 1961. Thirty-two medals have been presented over the past 50 years to distinguished figures such as physicist Carl Friedrich von Weizsäcker (1982) and biochemist Ernst-Ludwig Winnacker (2009).
Medal of Merit for Carl Friedrich von Weizsäcker | Image: Markus Scholz for the Leopoldina
| Year | Laureate | City | Discipline |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2016 | Bärbel Friedrich (born 1945) | Greifswald | Mikrobiologie |
| 2014 | Philipp U. Heitz (born 1939) | Au | Pathologie |
| 2013 | Rudolf K. Thauer (born 1939) | Marburg | Mikrobiologie/Immunologie |
| 2011 | Eberhard Hofmann (born 1930) | Biochemie und Biophysik | |
| 2009 | Ernst-Ludwig Winnacker (born 1941) | Strasbourg (F) | Humangenetik und Molekulare Medizin |
| 2007 | Werner Goebel (born 1939) | Würzburg | Mikrobiologie |
| 2007 | Johannes Eckert (born 1931) | Zürich | Veterinärmedizin |
| 2003 | Ernst Kern (1923 - 2014) | Würzburg | Chirurgie |
| 2003 | Eugen Seibold (1918 - 2013) | Freiburg (Br.) | Geologie |
| 2001 | Theodor Hiepe (born 1929) | Berlin | Veterinärmedizin |
| 1999 | Werner Köhler (born 1929) | Jena | Mikrobiologie |
| 1998 | Alfred Schellenberger (born 1928) | Biochemie/Biophysik | |
| 1997 | Gottfried Geiler (1927 - 2018) | Leipzig | Pathologie |
| 1995 | Leopold Schmetterer (1919 - 2004) | Vienna | Mathematik |
| 1993 | Hans-Albrecht Freye (1923 - 1994) | Anthropologie | |
| 1990 | Helmut Rennert (1920 - 1994) | Psychiatrie | |
| 1987 | Horst Sackmann (1921 - 1993) | Physikal. Chemie | |
| 1982 | Carl Friedrich von Weizsäcker (1912 - 2007) | Söcking | Physik |
| 1982 | Karlheinz Sommer (1907 - 1989) | Berlin | Gynäkologie |
| 1980 | Rudolf Käubler (1904 - 1989) | Geographie | |
| 1978 | Georg Uschmann (1913 - 1986) | Jena | Geschichte der Naturwissenschaften/Medizin |
| 1978 | Adolf Butenandt (1903 - 1995) | München | Biochemie/Biophysik |
| 1977 | Joachim-Hermann Scharf (1921 - 2014) | Anatomie | |
| 1974 | Günter Bruns (1914 - 2003) | Jena | Pathologie |
| 1971 | Horst Hanson (1911 - 1978) | Biochemie/Biophysik | |
| 1966 | Hans Hermann Weber (1896 - 1974) | Tübingen | Physiologie |
| 1962 | Erwin Reichenbach (1897 - 1973) | Stomatologie |
