Previous awardees

Jillian F. Banfield (AU, 2023) | Wiki | Complex microbial communities

J. Craig Venter (US, 2015) | Wiki | Genomics

Karl O. Stetter (DE, 2003) | Wiki | Extremophiles

Carl R. Woese (US, 1992) | Wiki | Archaea

Roger Y. Stanier (FR, 1981) | Wiki | Cyanobacteria

Cornelis B. van Niel (US, 1970) | Wiki | Photosynthesis

André M. Lwoff (FR, 1960) | Wiki | Proviruses

S.A. Waksman (US, 1950) | Wiki | Streptomycin

Sergei N. Winogradsky (FR, 1935)| Wiki | Nitrogen cycle

Félix d’Herelle (EG, 1925)| Wiki | Bacteriophages

Sir David Bruce (UK, 1915)| Wiki | Trypanosomes

Martinus W. Beijerinck (NL, 1905)| Wiki | Virology and environmental microbiology

Louis Pasteur (FR, 1895)| Wiki | Vaccinology and pasteurization

Ferdinand Cohn (PL, 1885)| Wiki | Bacteriology and microbiology

Christian G. Ehrenberg (DE, 1875)| Wiki | Microscopic organisms