Echegaray Medal Explained

The Echegaray Medal (Spanish: La Medalla Echegaray) is the highest scientific award granted by the Spanish Royal Academy of Sciences.^[1] The award was created by Alfonso XIII at the request of Santiago Ramón y Cajal^[2] after the award of the Nobel Prize to José Echegaray and is awarded in recognition of an exceptional scientific career.

The first time it was granted was in 1907 to the eponymous José Echegaray. More than a hundred years after the award was created, the first woman to receive the Echegaray Medal was Margarita Salas in 2016 during a ceremony which was presided over by Juan Carlos I and Queen Sofía of Spain.^[3]

Past recipients

• 1907 José Echegaray^[4]
• 1910 Eduardo Saavedra^[5]
• 1913 SAS el Príncipe Alberto I de Mónaco^[6]
• 1916 Leonardo Torres Quevedo^[7]
• 1919 Svante Arrhenius
• 1922 Santiago Ramón y Cajal
• 1925 Hendrik Antoon Lorentz^[8]
• 1928 Ignacio Bolívar
• 1931 Ernest Rutherford^[9]
• 1934 Joaquín María de Castellarnau^[10]
• 1968 Obdulio Fernández
• 1975 José María Otero de Navascués
• 1979 José García Santesmases
• 1998 Manuel Lora Tamayo
• 2016 Margarita Salas^{[11] [12]}
• 2018 Mariano Barbacid^[13]
• 2020 Francisco Guinea^[14]
• 2022 José A. Carrillo^{[15] [16]}

Notes and References

1. Web site: Premios que concede la Real Academia de Ciencias . rac.es . 9 January 2023 . es-ES.
2. Sánchez Ron . José Manuel . José Echegaray: entre la ciencia, el teatro y la política . Arbor . 2004 . 179 . 179 (707/708) . 601–688 . 10.3989/arbor.2004.i707/708.510 . 9 January 2023. free .
3. Web site: ENTREGA DE LA "MEDALLA ECHEGARAY 2016" . casareal.es . 9 January 2023 . es-ES.
4. 16 June 2017 . Medalla a Echegaray . Heraldo de Madrid . es . 6045 . 1 . 5 October 2018 .
5. Web site: Real Academia de Ciencias Exactas, Físicas y Naturales - Catálogo de Publicaciones - Publicaciones varias . https://web.archive.org/web/20171201041935/http://www.rac.es/4/4_5_12.php . 1 December 2017 . 22 November 2017 . www.rac.es . dead.
6. Web site: Relación de personalidades distinguidas por la RAC con las medallas Echegaray y Ramón y Cajal.
7. 877. Madrid Científico. Un Premio Y Un Homenaje. auto-translated by Module:CS1 translator -->
8. Book: Kox, A. J. . The Scientific Correspondence of H.A. Lorentz . 18 September 2008 . Springer Science & Business Media . 9780387779409 . de . 22 November 2017.
9. Web site: . 25 May 2016 . Margarita Salas Falgueras, Medalla Echegaray 2016 de la Real Academia de Ciencias . https://web.archive.org/web/20171129063858/http://www.rac.es/7/7_2_1.php?id=148 . 29 November 2017 . 22 November 2017 . www.rac.es . es . dead.
10. Web site: Los biólogos españoles - Joaquín María de Castellarnau y Lleopart (1848-1943) . 22 November 2017 . www.biologia-en-internet.com . es-ES.
11. News: 21 November 2017 . Don Juan Carlos entrega la Medalla Echegaray a la "ejemplar" Margarita Salas . es . eldiario.es . 22 November 2017.
12. News: Muere Margarita Salas, una de las grandes científicas españolas y referente feminista . 9 January 2023 . BBC . 8 November 2019 . es.
13. Web site: Mariano Barbacid, Medalla Echegaray 2018 . https://web.archive.org/web/20180816194424/http://www.rac.es/7/7_2_1.php?id=168 . 16 August 2018 . 16 August 2018 . dead.
14. Web site: Premios - Real Academía de Ciencias Exactas, Físicas y Naturales. rac.es.
15. Web site: José Antonio Carrillo de la Plata recibe la Medalla Echegaray 2022 - Noticias - Real Academía de Ciencias Exactas, Físicas y Naturales . 2022-12-22 . rac.es.
16. Web site: José Antonio Carrillo de la Plata is awarded the Echegaray Medal 2022 . 2023-01-09 . eurasc.eu . en.