Maria Skłodowska-Curie Medal


The Maria Skłodowska-Curie Medal is a Polish annual science award conferred by the Polish Chemical Society to scientists working permanently abroad for contributions in the field of chemistry. It was named in honour of Polish physicist Maria Skłodowska-Curie 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, Jean Marie Lehn, Ada Yonath and Ben Feringa.

Laureates

The winners of the award so far have been:
YearLaureateImageCountryInstitutionRef.
2022Jean Marie LehnUniversity of Strasbourg
2021Volodymyr M. Gun’koChuiko Institute of Surface Chemistry, National Academy of Science of Ukraine
2020Karl Anker JørgensenAarhus University
2019Roald HoffmannCornell University
2018Jacek KlinowskiUniversity of Cambridge
2017Krzysztof PalczewskiUniversity of California, Irvine
2016Mietek JaroniecKent State University
2015Janusz PawliszynUniversity of Waterloo
2014John JouleUniversity of Manchester
2013Ben FeringaUniversity of Groningen
2012Krzysztof MatyjaszewskiCarnegie Mellon University
2011Roland BoeseUniversity of Duisburg-Essen
2011Nicole J. MoreauUniversity of Paris
2011Ada YonathHebrew University of Jerusalem
2010Anton AmannInnsbruck Medical University
2007Jerzy LeszczyńskiJackson State University
2005Tadeusz MalińskiOhio University
2003Ivar OlovssonUppsala University
2002Vilim SimanekPalacký University Olomouc
2001Gerald Djega-MariadassouPierre and Marie Curie University
2001Józef HurwicAix-Marseille University
2000Gerard DescotesUniversity of Lyon
2000Christian ReichardtUniversity of Marburg
1997Philip KocienskiUniversity of Leeds
1996Lodovico R. di SanseverinoUniversity of Bologna