Cothenius Medal

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Awarded forOutstanding research in any branch of science
Sponsored byGerman National Academy of Sciences Leopoldina
CountryGermany
First award1792; 234 years ago (1792)
Leopoldina Cothenius Medal
The Cothenius medal
Awarded forOutstanding research in any branch of science
Sponsored byGerman National Academy of Sciences Leopoldina
CountryGermany
First award1792; 234 years ago (1792)
WebsiteCothenius Medal

Cothenius Medal is a medal awarded by the German National Academy of Sciences Leopoldina (known as the Leopoldina) for outstanding scientific achievement during the life of the awardee.[1] The medal was created to honour Christian Andreas Cothenius, who was the personal physician to Frederick the Great.[2] In 1743, Cothenius became a fellow of the Leopoldina, later president of the learned society that had been created by Emperor Leopold I.[2] When Cothenius died, he left a sum of money in his will to the society with the condition that the interest on the money should be used to award a gold medal, every two years by answering a question in medicine whereby some new truth could be established.[2] Up until 1864, the award came with a prize but was then converted into an award for the promotion of research over the whole period of a person's life.[3] Each medal bears the Latin inscription "Praemium virtutis salutem mortalium provehentibus sancitum" (Created in recognition of the ability of those who promote the good of mortals).[1]

Year Image Laureate Discipline City Ref
2025 Kai Simons (born 1938) Biochemistry/cell biology Dresden [4]
2024 Roger S. Goody (born 1944) Biochemistry Dortmund [5]
2023 Jürgen Troe (born 1940) Physical Chemistry Göttingen [6]
2021 Rudolf K. Thauer (born 1939) Microbiology/Immunology Marburg [7]
2021 Werner Kühlbrandt (born 1951) Biochemistry/Structural Biology Frankfurt [8]
2019 Klaus Müllen (born 1947) Chemistry Mainz [9]
2019 Walter Neupert (1939–2019) Biochemistry and cell biology Martinsried [10]
2017 Fritz Melchers (born 1936) Cell biology Berlin [11]
2017 Joachim Trümper (born 1933) X-ray astronomy Garching [12]
2015 Herbert Gleiter (born 1938) Physics Karlsruhe [13]
2015 Otto Ludwig Lange (1927–2017) Biology Würzburg [14]
2013 Gunter S. Fischer (born 1943) Chemistry Halle [15]
2013 Wolf Singer (born 1943) Neurosciences Frankfurt [16]
2011 Bert Hölldobler (born 1936) Zoology Würzburg [17]
2011 Anna M. Wobus (born 1945) Human genetics and molecular medicine Gatersleben [18]
2011 Ulrich Wobus (born 1942) Genetics/Molecular Biology Gatersleben
2009 Karl Decker (1925–2024) Biochemistry [19]
2009 Eduard Seidler (1929–2020) History of medicine [15]
2007 Klaus Wolff (1935–2019) Dermatology Vienna [20]
2007 Sigrid Doris Peyerimhoff (born 1937) Physical chemistry Bonn [21][22]
2005 Hans Günter Schlegel (1924–2013) Microbiology Göttingen [15]
2005 Alfred Gierer (born 1929) Molecular biologist [15]
2003 Ernst J. M. Helmreich (1922–2017) Biochemistry Würzburg [23]
2003 Benno Parthier (1932–2019) Cell biology [24]
2003 Andreas Oksche (1926–2017) Anatomy Giessen [25]
2001 Leopold Horner (1911–2005) Chemistry Mainz [26]
2001 Heinz Jagodzinski (1916–2012) Physics Munich [27]
2000 Hans Mohr (1930–2016) Plant physiologist Freiburg [28]
1999 Rudolf Rott (1926–2003) Veterinary medicine Giessen [29]
1999 Dorothea Kuhn (1923–2015) History of science and medicine Marbach
1997 Otto Braun-Falco (1922–2018) Dermatology Munich [30]
1997 Friedrich Hirzebruch (1927–2012) Mathematics Bonn [31]
1995 Wilhelm Doerr (1914–1996) Pathology Heidelberg [32]
1995 Gottfried Möllenstedt (1912–1997) Physics Tübingen
1995 Dietrich Schneider (1919–2008) Zoology Starnberg [33]
1993 Wolfgang Gerok ( (1926–2021) Internal Medicine Freiburg [34]
1993 Bernhard Hassenstein (1922–2016) Zoologie Freiburg [35]
1991 Heinz Röhrer (1905–1992) Veterinary Medicine Rathenow [36]
1991 Albert Eschenmoser (1925–2023) Chemistry Küsnacht [37]
1989 Sir Bernhard Katz (1911–2003) Physiology London [38]
1989 Jürgen Tonndorf (1914–1989) Otorhinolaryngology New York [39]
1989 Heinz Bethge (1919–2001) Physics [40]
1987 Rostislaw Kaischew (1908–1990) Physical Chemistry Sofia [41]
1987 Adolf Watznauer (1907–1995) Geology Karl-Marx-Stadt [42]
1985 Konrad Zuse (1910–1995) Computer technology Hünfeld [43]
1985 Hermann Flohn (1912–1997) Climatology Bonn [15]
1983 Wolf von Engelhardt (1910–2008) Mineralogy Tübingen [15]
1983 Erna Lesky (1911–1986) History of Medicine Innsbruck [44]
1980 Wilhelm Jost (1903–1988) Physical Chemistry Göttingen [45]
1980 Peter Friedrich Matzen (1909–1986) Orthopaedics Leipzig [46]
1977 Wolfgang Gentner (1906–1980) Physics Heidelberg [47]
1977 Arnold Graffi (1910–2006) General Biology Berlin [48]
1975 Ilya Prigogine (1917–1988) Physical Chemistry Brussels/Austin [49]
1975 Ernst Ruska (1906–1996) Physics Berlin [50]
1974 Viktor Ambartsumian (1908–1996) Astronomy Yerevan [51]
1973 Albrecht Unsöld (1905–1995) Astronomy Kiel [52]
1972 Erwin Reichenbach (1897–1973) Stomatology [53]
1971 Otto Kratky (1902–1995) Physical Chemistry Graz [54]
1971 Friedrich Hund (1896–1997) Göttingen Physics [55]
1969 Pavel Alexandrov (1896–1982) Mathematics Moscow [15]
1969 Helmut Hasse (1898–1979) Mathematics Hamburg [56]
1969 Bartel Leendert van der Waerden (1903 - 1996) Mathematics Zürich [15]
1967 Vladimir Engelgardt (1894–1984) Physiological Chemistry Moscow [15]
1967 Karl Lohmann (1898–1978) Physiological Chemistry Berlin [57]
1966 Archibald Vivian Hill (1886–1977) Physiology Cambridge (GB) [58]
1965 Hans Hermann Bennhold (1893–1976) Internal Medicine Tübingen [59]
1965 Ernst Derra (1901–1979) Surgery Düsseldorf [15]
1964 Wolfgang von Buddenbrock-Hettersdorff (1884–1964) Zoology Mainz [60]
1961 Max Bürger (1885–1966) Internal Medicine Leipzig [61]
1960 Kurt Mothes [de] (1900–1983) Botany Halle [62]
1960 John Eccles (1903–1997) Physiology Canberra [63]
1959 George de Hevesy (1885–1966) Physical Chemistry Stockholm [64]
1959 Pyotr Kapitsa (1894–1984) Physics Moscow [65]

Cothenius Medal awardees, 1864–1953

Cothenius Medal awardees, 1792–1861

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