The Marie Curie-Skłodowska Medal is a Polish annual science award conferred by the

Polish Chemical Society The Polish Chemical Society ( pl, Polskie Towarzystwo Chemiczne, PTCHEM) is a professional scientific society of Polish chemists. History The society was founded of 118 Charter Members on 29 June 1919 on the initiative of Leon Marchlewski, Sta ...

(''Polskie Towarzystwo Chemiczne, PTCHEM'') to scientists working permanently abroad for contributions in the field of

chemistry Chemistry is the science, scientific study of the properties and behavior of matter. It is a natural science that covers the Chemical element, elements that make up matter to the chemical compound, compounds made of atoms, molecules and ions ...

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It was named in honour of physicist

Marie Curie Marie Salomea Skłodowska–Curie ( , , ; born Maria Salomea Skłodowska, ; 7 November 1867 – 4 July 1934) was a Polish and naturalized-French physicist and chemist who conducted pioneering research on radioactivity. She was the first ...

(1867–1934) and first awarded in 1996. The winner receives a

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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. Three laureates of the medal have also been awarded the

Nobel Prize in Chemistry ) , image = Nobel Prize.png , alt = A golden medallion with an embossed image of a bearded man facing left in profile. To the left of the man is the text "ALFR•" then "NOBEL", and on the right, the text (smaller) "NAT•" then "M ...

Roald Hoffmann Roald Hoffmann (born Roald Safran; July 18, 1937) is a Polish Americans, Polish-American theoretical chemistry, theoretical chemist who won the 1981 Nobel Prize in Chemistry. He has also published plays and poetry. He is the Frank H. T. Rhodes P ...

(1981),

Ada Yonath Ada E. Yonath ( he, עדה יונת, ; born 22 June 1939) is an Israeli crystallographer best known for her pioneering work on the structure of ribosomes. She is the current director of the Helen and Milton A. Kimmelman Center for Biomolecular S ...

(2009) and

Ben Feringa Bernard Lucas Feringa (, born 18 May 1951) is a Dutch synthetic organic chemist, specializing in molecular nanotechnology and homogeneous catalysis. He is the Jacobus van 't Hoff Distinguished Professor of Molecular Sciences, at the Stratingh ...

(2016).

Laureates

The winners of the award so far have been: * Karl Anker Jørgensen, (2020) *

, (2019) *Jacek Klinowski, (2018) *

Krzysztof Palczewski Krzysztof Palczewski (born 1957) is a Polish-American biochemist working at the University of California, Irvine. He is a Member of the National Academy of Sciences and the National Academy of Medicine. In 2012 he was awarded Prize of the Found ...

, (2017) * Mietek Jaroniec, (2016) *Janusz Pawliszyn, (2015) *

John Joule John Arthur Joule is a British academic and chemist. Joule took his BSc, MSc, and PhD degrees at the University of Manchester, obtaining his PhD (with George Smith) in 1961. He then undertook post-doctoral work at with Professor Richard K. Hill ...

, (2014) * Bernard L. Feringa, (2013) *

Krzysztof Matyjaszewski Krzysztof "Kris" Matyjaszewski (; born April 8, 1950) is a Polish-American chemist. He is the J.C. Warner Professor of the Natural Sciences at the Carnegie Mellon University Matyjaszewski is best known for the discovery of atom transfer radical ...

, (2012) *Roland Boese, Nicole J. Moreau and

(2011) *

Anton Amann Anton Amann (20 June 1956 – 6 January 2015) was an Austrian chemist and Professor of chemistry at the Innsbruck Medical University. He worked in the area of physical chemistry, ECG analysis, and exhaled breath analysis. Amann was the ...

, (2010) *Jerzy Leszczyński, (2007) *Tadeusz Maliński, (2005) *Ivar Olovsson, (2003) *Vilim Simanek, (2002) *Gerald Djega-Mariadassou and Józef Hurwic, (2001) *Gerard Descotes and Christian Reichardt, (2000) *

Philip Kocienski Philip Joseph Kocienski (born 23 December 1946) is a British organic chemist. He is an Emeritus Professor at the University of Leeds. Research Kocienski has made contributions to the design and development of new organometallic reagents in ...

, (1997) *Lodovico R. di Sanseverino, (1996)

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