- Leeuwenhoek Medal
The Leeuwenhoek Medal, established in
1877 by the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences, (KNAW), in honor of the 17th- and 18th-century microscopistAntoni van Leeuwenhoek , is granted every ten years to the scientist judged to have made the most significant contribution tomicrobiology during the preceding decade.The Leeuwenhoek Medal winners have been:
*1877
Christian Gottfried Ehrenberg , Germany
*1885Ferdinand Cohn , Poland
*1895Louis Pasteur , France
*1905Martinus Beijerinck , Netherlands
*1915Sir David Bruce , United Kingdom
*1925Félix d’Herelle , (at the time) Egypt
*1935 Sergei Nikolaevitch Winogradsky, France
*1950 Selman Abraham Waksman, United States
*1960André Lwoff , France
*1970 Cornelis Bernardus van Niel (Kees van Niel), United States
*1981 Roger Yate Stanier, France
*1992Carl Woese , United States
*2003Karl Stetter , Germanyource
[http://www.knaw.nl/cfdata/prizes/prizes_detail.cfm?orgid=226 Royal Academy's website Van Leeuwenhoek Medal]
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