Marie Curie Medal Explained

Marie Curie-Skłodowska Medal
Awarded For:	significant contributions in the field of chemistry
Presenter:	Polish Chemical Society
Country:	Poland
Year:	1996

The Marie Curie-Skłodowska Medal 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.^[1]

Description

It was named in honour of physicist Marie Curie (1867–1934) 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:

scope=col	Year	scope=col	Laureate(s)	scope=col class=unsortable	Image	scope=col	Country	scope=col	Institution(s)	scope=col	Ref.
scope=row	2022	Jean Marie Lehn			University of Strasbourg	^[2]
scope=row	2021	Volodymyr M. Gun’ko			Chuiko Institute of Surface Chemistry, National Academy of Science of Ukraine	^[3]
scope=row	2020	Karl Anker Jørgensen			Aarhus University	^[4]
scope=row	2019	Roald Hoffmann			Cornell University	^[5]
scope=row	2018	Jacek Klinowski			University of Cambridge	^[6]
scope=row	2017	Krzysztof Palczewski			University of California, Irvine	^[7]
scope=row	2016	Mietek Jaroniec			Kent State University	^[8]
scope=row	2015	Janusz Pawliszyn			University of Waterloo	^[9]
scope=row	2014	John Joule			University of Manchester	^[10]
scope=row	2013	Ben Feringa			University of Groningen	^[11]
scope=row	2012	Krzysztof Matyjaszewski			Carnegie Mellon University	^[12]
2011	Roland Boese			University of Duisburg-Essen	^[13]
	Nicole J. Moreau			University of Paris	^[14]
	Ada Yonath			Hebrew University of Jerusalem	^[15]
scope=row	2010	Anton Amann			Innsbruck Medical University	^[16]
scope=row	2007	Jerzy Leszczyński			Jackson State University	^[17]
scope=row	2005	Tadeusz Maliński			Ohio University	^[18]
scope=row	2003	Ivar Olovsson			Uppsala University	^[19]
scope=row	2002	Vilim Simanek			Palacký University Olomouc	^[20]
2001	Gerald Djega-Mariadassou			Pierre and Marie Curie University	^[21]
	Józef Hurwic			Aix-Marseille University	^[22]
2000	Gerard Descotes			University of Lyon	^[23]
	Christian Reichardt			University of Marburg	^[24]
scope=row	1997	Philip Kocienski			University of Leeds	^[25]
scope=row	1996	Lodovico R. di Sanseverino			University of Bologna	^[26]

Notes

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

See also

• Prize of the Foundation for Polish Science
• Marian Smoluchowski Medal
• Kołos Medal

Notes and References

1. Web site: Wyróżnienia . pl . ptchem.pl . 21 April 2023.
2. Web site: Nobel Awardee Jean-Marie Lehn receiving the Maria Sklodowska-Curie Medal by the Polish Chemical Society at ICNI2022 in Strasbourg . twitter.com . 21 April 2023.
3. News: Laureaci Medali i Nagród PTChem . 21 April 2023.
4. Web site: PROFESSOR KARL ANKER JØRGENSEN RECEIVES THE MARIA SKŁODOWSKA-CURIE MEDAL . newsroom.au.dk . Kristoffer Jakobsen . 29 January 2020 . 21 April 2023.
5. Web site: 100 Years Polish Chemical Society . chemistryviews.org . Vera Koester . 7 September 2019. 21 April 2023.
6. News: Laureaci Medali i Nagród PTChem . 21 April 2023.
7. News: Laureaci Medali i Nagród PTChem . 21 April 2023.
8. Web site: KENT STATE CHEMISTRY PROFESSOR AWARDED THE MARIE SKLODOWSKA-CURIE MEDAL IN POLAND . kent.edu . 21 April 2023.
9. News: Laureaci Medali i Nagród PTChem . 21 April 2023.
10. News: Laureaci Medali i Nagród PTChem . 21 April 2023.
11. Web site: Nobel Prize for Ben Feringa . rug.nl . 5 October 2016 . 21 April 2023.
12. News: Laureaci Medali i Nagród PTChem . 21 April 2023.
13. News: Laureaci Medali i Nagród PTChem . 21 April 2023.
14. News: Laureaci Medali i Nagród PTChem . 21 April 2023.
15. Web site: ADA YONATH - CURRICULUM VITAE Sept 22 . weizmann.ac.il . 21 April 2023.
16. News: Laureaci Medali i Nagród PTChem . 21 April 2023.
17. News: Laureaci Medali i Nagród PTChem . 21 April 2023.
18. News: Laureaci Medali i Nagród PTChem . 21 April 2023.
19. Web site: Ivar Olovsson receives Marie Sklodowska-Curie Medal . iucr.org . 21 April 2023.
20. Web site: Ivar Olovsson receives Marie Sklodowska-Curie Medal . iucr.org . 21 April 2023.
21. Web site: Ivar Olovsson receives Marie Sklodowska-Curie Medal . iucr.org . 21 April 2023.
22. Web site: Ivar Olovsson receives Marie Sklodowska-Curie Medal . iucr.org . 21 April 2023.
23. Web site: MEDAL AMICO: PROF. GERARD DESCOTES . pl . uni.lodz.pl . 21 April 2023.
24. Web site: Ivar Olovsson receives Marie Sklodowska-Curie Medal . iucr.org . 21 April 2023.
25. Web site: Ivar Olovsson receives Marie Sklodowska-Curie Medal . iucr.org . 21 April 2023.
26. Web site: Ivar Olovsson receives Marie Sklodowska-Curie Medal . iucr.org . 21 April 2023.