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.^[1]

Winners of the Pius XI Medal (1939-2020)

1939 Corneille Heymans (Belgium) Physiology
1942 Harlow Shapley (United States) Astronomy
1943 Emmanuel de Margerie (France) Geography
1962 Bengt E. Andersson (Sweden) Life Sciences
1963 Aage Bohr (Denmark) Physics
1964 François Gros (France) Life Sciences
1966 Allan Sandage (USA) Astronomy
1969 Robert Burns Woodward (USA) Chemistry
1970 Haruo Kanatani (Japan) Life Sciences
1972 György Némethy (Hungary) Physics
1975 Stephen W. Hawking (UK) Astronomy
1976 Lucio Luzzatto (Italy) Life Sciences
1979 Antonio Paes de Carvalho (Brazil) Life Sciences
1981 Jean-Marie Lehn (France) Chemistry
1983 Gerardus t'Hooft (Netherlands) Physics
1986 Elizabeth Bernays (Australia) Life Sciences
1988 Luis Caffarelli (Argentina) Mathematics
1992 Adi Shamir (Israel) Other Disciplines
1996 Mark M. Davis (USA) Chemistry
2000 Gillian Bates (UK) Life Sciences
2000 Stephen W. Davies (UK) Life Sciences
2002 Stanislas Dehaene (France) Life Sciences
2002 Juan M. Maldacena (USA) Physics
2004 Laure Saint-Raymond (France) Mathematics
2006 Ashoke Sen (India) Physics
2008 Juan A. Larraín (Chile) Life Sciences
2010 Patrick Mehlen (France) Biology
2012 Trees-Juen Chuang (Taiwan) Genomics
2012 Ulrich Pöschl (Austria) Chemistry
2014 Cédric Villani (France) Mathematics^[2]
2016 Mariano Sigman (Argentina) Neurosciences
2018 Noble Ephraim Banadda (Uganda), David M. Sabatini (USA) and Miriam Serena Vitiello (Italia)^[3]
2020 Demis Hassabis (UK) Computer Science, Peter Scholze (Germany) Mathematics^[4]

^ "The Pontifical Academy of Sciences: Pius XI Medal". Retrieved 2016-08-17.
^ PDF award info
^ "Archived copy" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 2019-11-13. Retrieved 2019-11-13.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
^ "Pius XI-Medaille an Peter Scholze verliehen". University of Bonn (in German). 2022-09-09.