The CNRS Silver Medal is a scientific award given every year to about fifteen researchers by the
French National Centre for Scientific Research
The French National Centre for Scientific Research (french: link=no, Centre national de la recherche scientifique, CNRS) is the French state research organisation and is the largest fundamental science agency in Europe.
In 2016, it employed 31,637 ...
(CNRS). It is awarded to a researcher for "the originality, quality and importance of their work, recognised on a national and international level".
It is part of the "CNRS Talents" medals, along with the CNRS gold medal, which rewards a whole scientific career, the CNRS bronze medal, which rewards young researchers, the Innovation medal, which honours remarkable work in the technological, therapeutic, economic or societal fields, and the CNRS Crystal medal, which rewards research support staff.
Margaret Maruani
Margaret Rose Maruani Rey (25 February 1954 – 4 August 2022)
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Anca Muscholl
Anca Muscholl (born 1967) is a Romanian-German mathematical logician and theoretical computer scientist known for her work on formal verification, model checking, and two-variable logic. She is a researcher at the (LaBRI), a professor at the Uni ...
(mathematics) (2010)
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Edith Heard
Edith Heard (born 1965) is a British-French researcher in epigenetics and since January 2019 has been the Director General of the European Molecular Biology Laboratory (EMBL). She is also Professor at the Collège de France, holding the Chair of ...