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Pius XI Medal
The
Pius XI
Medal
is an award presented every second year by the
Pontifical Academy of Sciences
to a promising scientist under
the age
of 45.
Winners of the Pius XI Medal (1939-2018)
1939
Corneille Heymans
Physiology
1942
Harlow Shapley
Astronomy
1943
Emmanuel de Margerie
Geography
1962 Bengt E.
Andersson
Life Sciences
1963
Aage Bohr
Physics
1964
François Gros
Life Sciences
1966
Allan Sandage
Astronomy
1969
Robert Burns Woodward
Chemistry
1970
Haruo Kanatani
Life Sciences
1972
György Némethy
Physics
1975 Stephen W. Hawking Astronomy
1976
Lucio Luzzatto
Life Sciences
1979
Antonio Paes de Carvalho
Life Sciences
1981
Jean-Marie Lehn
Chemistry
1983
Gerardus t'Hooft
Physics
1986 Elizabeth A. Bernays Life Sciences
1988
Luis Caffarelli
Mathematics
1992
Adi Shamir
Other Disciplines
1996 Mark M. Davis Chemistry
2000
Gillian P. Bates Life Sciences
2000 Stephen W.
Davies
Life Sciences
2002
Stanislas Dehaene
Life Sciences
2002 Juan M. Maldacena Physics
2004
Laure Saint-Raymond
Mathematics
2006
Ashoke Sen
Physics
2008 Juan A. Larraín Life Sciences
2010
Patrick Mehlen
Biology
2012
Trees-Juen Chuang
Genomics
2012
Ulrich Pöschl
Chemistry
2014
Cédric Villani
Mathematics
2016
Mariano Sigman
Neurosciences
2018
Noble Ephraim Banadda
,
David
M. Sabatini and
Miriam Serena Vitiello