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.
Winners of the Pius XI Medal (1939-2020)
- 1939 Corneille Heymans Physiology
- 1942 Harlow Shapley Astronomy
- 1943 Emmanuel de Margerie Geography
- 1962 Bengt E. Andersson Life Sciences
- 1963 Aage Bohr Physics
- 1964 François Gros Life Sciences
- 1966 Allan Sandage Astronomy
- 1969 Robert Burns Woodward Chemistry
- 1970 Haruo Kanatani Life Sciences
- 1972 György Némethy Physics
- 1975 Stephen W. Hawking Astronomy
- 1976 Lucio Luzzatto Life Sciences
- 1979 Antonio Paes de Carvalho Life Sciences
- 1981 Jean-Marie Lehn Chemistry
- 1983 Gerardus t'Hooft Physics
- 1986 Elizabeth Bernays Life Sciences
- 1988 Luis Caffarelli Mathematics
- 1992 Adi Shamir Other Disciplines
- 1996 Mark M. Davis Chemistry
- 2000 Gillian Bates Life Sciences
- 2000 Stephen W. Davies Life Sciences
- 2002 Stanislas Dehaene Life Sciences
- 2002 Juan M. Maldacena Physics
- 2004 Laure Saint-Raymond Mathematics
- 2006 Ashoke Sen Physics
- 2008 Juan A. Larraín Life Sciences
- 2010 Patrick Mehlen Biology
- 2012 Trees-Juen Chuang Genomics
- 2012 Ulrich Pöschl Chemistry
- 2014 Cédric Villani Mathematics
- 2016 Mariano Sigman Neurosciences
- 2018 Noble Ephraim Banadda, David M. Sabatini and Miriam Serena Vitiello
- 2020 Demis Hassabis Computer Science, Peter Scholze Mathematics