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.
Bild: Markus Scholz für die Leopoldina
Year | Laureate | City | Discipline |
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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 |