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Mendel Medal

The Leopoldina awards this medal for pioneering achievements in the fields of general and molecular biology or genetics. The Academy Senate decided to institute the medal on October 20th 1965 to honor the natural scientist Gregor Mendel (1822-1884). The medal shall be awarded regardless of membership status and without national restrictions.

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Bild: Markus Scholz für die Leopoldina

Year Laureate City Discipline
2021 Stefan Mundlos (born 1958) Berlin Humangenetik
2019 Magdalena Götz (born 1962) Munich Molekularbiologie
2017 Peter Hegemann (born 1954) Berlin Optogenetik
2015 Detlef Weigel (born 1961) Tübingen Molekularbiologie
2013 Nicholas H. Barton (born 1955) Klosterneuburg Genetik
2011 Regine Kahmann (born 1948) Marburg Genetik/Molekularbiologie
2009 Heinz Saedler (born 1941) Cologne Pflanzliche Molekularbiologie
2007 August Böck (born 1937) Munich Biochemie/Molekularbiologie
2005 Rolf Knippers (born 1936) Konstanz Genetik
2003 Peter Propping (1942 - 2016) Bonn Humangenetik und Molekulare Medizin
2001 Konrad Sandhoff (born 1939) Bonn Humangenetik und Molekulare Medizin
1999 Herbert Jäckle (born 1949) Göttingen Genetik
1997 Walter J. Gehring (1939 - 2014) Basel Molekularbiologie/Genetik
1995 Diter H. von Wettstein (born 1929) Kopenhagen Molekularbiologie
1993 Dieter Oesterhelt (born 1940) Martinsried Biochemie/Biophysik
1991 Masahiro Sugiura (born 1936) Nagoya Molekulargenetik
1989 Andrei D. Mirzabekov (1937 - 2003) Moskau Molekularbiologie
1987 Jane Goodall (born 1934) Daressalam Allg. Biologie
1985 Jozef Schell (1935 - 2003) Cologne Landbauwissenschaften
1983 Dietrich Starck (1908 - 2001) Frankfurt (M.) Anatomie
1980 Ernst Mayr (1904 - 2005) Cambridge (USA) Zoologie
1977 H. Günter Wittmann (1927 - 1990) Berlin Biochemie/Biophysik
1975 Curt Stern (1902 - 1981) Berkeley Allg. Biologie
1973 Erwin Chargaff (1905 - 2002) New York Biochemie/Biophysik
1970 Sydney Brenner (born 1927) Cambridge (GB) Allg. Biologie
1970 Nikolaj V. Timofeev-Resovskij (1900 - 1981) Obninsk Allg. Biologie
1967 Max Delbrück (1906 - 1981) Pasadena Allg. Biologie

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