The Maria Skłodowska-Curie Medal (Medal Marii Skłodowskiej-Curie) is a Polish annual science award conferred by the Polish Chemical Society (Polish: Polskie Towarzystwo Chemiczne, PTCHem) to scientists working permanently abroad for contributions in the field of chemistry. It was named in honour of Polish physicist Maria Skłodowska-Curie (English: Marie Curie) and first awarded in 1996.

The winner receives a bronze medal depicting Marie Curie and on the reverse the Latin inscription Quo Magis Veritas Propagatur as well as the PTCHem logo, year and the name of the laureate. Four laureates of the medal have also been awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry: Roald Hoffmann (1981), Jean Marie Lehn (1987), Ada Yonath (2009) and Ben Feringa (2016).

Laureates

The winners of the award so far have been:

YearLaureate(s)ImageCountry[a]Institution(s)Ref.
2022Jean Marie LehnFranceUniversity of Strasbourg
2021Volodymyr M. Gun’koUkraineChuiko Institute of Surface Chemistry, National Academy of Science of Ukraine
2020Karl Anker JørgensenDenmarkAarhus University
2019Roald HoffmannUnited StatesCornell University
2018Jacek KlinowskiUnited KingdomUniversity of Cambridge
2017Krzysztof PalczewskiUnited StatesUniversity of California, Irvine
2016Mietek JaroniecUnited StatesKent State University
2015Janusz PawliszynCanadaUniversity of Waterloo
2014John JouleUnited KingdomUniversity of Manchester
2013Ben FeringaNetherlandsUniversity of Groningen
2012Krzysztof MatyjaszewskiUnited StatesCarnegie Mellon University
2011Roland BoeseGermanyUniversity of Duisburg-Essen
Nicole J. MoreauFranceUniversity of Paris
Ada YonathIsraelHebrew University of Jerusalem
2010Anton AmannAustriaInnsbruck Medical University
2007Jerzy LeszczyńskiUnited StatesJackson State University
2005Tadeusz MalińskiUnited StatesOhio University
2003Ivar OlovssonSwedenUppsala University
2002Vilim SimanekCzech RepublicPalacký University Olomouc
2001Gerald Djega-MariadassouFrancePierre and Marie Curie University
Józef HurwicFranceAix-Marseille University
2000Gerard DescotesFranceUniversity of Lyon
Christian ReichardtGermanyUniversity of Marburg
1997Philip KocienskiUnited KingdomUniversity of Leeds
1996Lodovico R. di SanseverinoItalyUniversity of Bologna

Notes

  • a Sites of the work places of the Laureates at the time of the award.

See also