The Schleiden Medal is an award given by the

Academy of Sciences Leopoldina The German National Academy of Sciences Leopoldina (german: Deutsche Akademie der Naturforscher Leopoldina – Nationale Akademie der Wissenschaften), short Leopoldina, is the national academy of Germany, and is located in Halle (Saale). Founded ...

, the

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, to honour outstanding achievements in the field of cellular biology. The award is named after

botanist Botany, also called , plant biology or phytology, is the science of plant life and a branch of biology. A botanist, plant scientist or phytologist is a scientist who specialises in this field. The term "botany" comes from the Ancient Greek wo ...

Matthias Jakob Schleiden Matthias Jakob Schleiden (; 5 April 1804 – 23 June 1881) was a German botanist and co-founder of cell theory, along with Theodor Schwann and Rudolf Virchow. Career Matthias Jakob Schleiden was born in Hamburg. on 5 April 1804. His father was ...

Recipients

* 1955 : Emil Heitz * 1958 :

Albert Frey-Wyssling :''See also Albert Frey (disambiguation)'' Dr Albert Friedrich Frey-Wyssling (November 8, 1900 – August 30, 1988) was a Swiss botanist who pioneered submicroscopic morphology and helped initiate the study of molecular biology. Life Fr ...

* 1961 :

Jean Brachet Jean Louis Auguste Brachet (19 March 1909 – 10 August 1988) was a Belgian biochemist who made a key contribution in understanding the role of RNA. Life Brachet was born in Etterbeek near Brussels in Belgium, the son of Albert Brachet, ...

(co-recipient) * 1973 :

Irene Manton Irene Manton, FRS FLS (born Irène Manton; 17 April 1904, in Kensington – 13 May 1988) was a British botanist who was Professor of Botany at the University of Leeds. She was noted for study of ferns and algae. Biography Irene Manton was th ...

Torbjörn Caspersson Torbjörn Oskar Caspersson (15 October 1910 – 7 December 1997) was a Swedish cytologist and geneticist. He was born in Motala and attended the University of Stockholm, where he studied medicine and biophysics. Contributions Caspersson made sev ...

* 1975 : Wilhelm Bernhard * 1977 : Ernst Wohlfarth-Bottermann * 1980 :

Karl Lennert Karl Lennert, M.D. (4 June 1921 in Fürth, Germany – 27 August 2012 in Kiel, Germany) was a German physician and pathologist. Early life and education Lennert was born in Fürth, which is now contiguous with Nuremberg, in Bavaria. After g ...

* 1983 :

Berta Scharrer Berta Vogel Scharrer (December 1, 1906 – July 23, 1995) was an American scientist who helped to found the scientific discipline now known as neuroendocrinology. Career Berta Vogel was born in Munich, Germany to Karl Phillip Vogel and Johanna W ...

* 1985 :

George Emil Palade George Emil Palade (; November 19, 1912 – October 7, 2008) was a Romanian cell biologist. Described as "the most influential cell biologist ever",

* 1987 : Zdeněk Lojda * 1989 : A. G. Everson Pearse * 1991 : Peter Sitte * 1993 :

Gottfried Schatz Gottfried Schatz (18 August 1936 – 1 October 2015) was a Swiss-Austrian biochemist. Life and career Schatz was born in Strem. Upon obtaining his PhD in chemistry and biochemistry at the University of Graz (Austria), he did postdoctoral wor ...

* 1995 : Philipp U. Heitz * 1998 :

Avram Hershko Avram Hershko ( he, אברהם הרשקו, Avraham Hershko, hu, Herskó Ferenc Ábrahám; born December 31, 1937) is a Hungarian-Israeli biochemist who received the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 2004. Biography He was born Herskó Ferenc in Karc ...

* 1999 :

Walter Neupert Walter may refer to: People * Walter (name), both a surname and a given name * Little Walter, American blues harmonica player Marion Walter Jacobs (1930–1968) * Gunther (wrestler), Austrian professional wrestler and trainer Walter Hahn (born 19 ...

* 2001 :

Kai Simons Kai Simons (born 24 May 1938) is a Finnish professor of biochemistry and cell biology and physician living and working in Germany. He introduced the concept of lipid rafts, as well as coined the term ''trans-Golgi network'' and proposed its role ...

* 2003 : Ari Helenius * 2005 :

Wolfgang Baumeister Wolfgang P. Baumeister (born November 22, 1946 in Wesseling bordering Cologne) is a German molecular biologist and biophysicist. His research has been pivotal in the development of Cryoelectron tomography. Education and career After completing h ...

* 2007 :

Alexander Varshavsky Alexander Jacob Varshavsky (russian: link=no, Александр Яковлевич Варшавский; born 8 November 1946) is a Russian-American biochemist, noted for his discovery of the N-end rule of ubiquitination. A native of Moscow, he is ...

* 2009 :

Thomas Cremer Thomas Cremer (born 7 July 1945 in Miesbach, Germany ), is a German professor of human genetics and anthropology with a main research focus on molecular cytogenetics and 3D/4D analyses of nuclear structure studied by fluorescence microscopy inclu ...

* 2011 :

Tom Rapoport Tom Abraham Rapoport (born June 17, 1947) is a German-American cell biologist who studies protein transport in cells. Currently, he is a professor at Harvard Medical School and a Howard Hughes Medical Institute investigator. Born in Cincinnati, OH ...

* 2013 : Ingrid Grummt * 2015 : Johannes Buchner * 2017 :

Anthony A. Hyman Anthony Arie Hyman (born 27 May 1962) is a British scientist and director at the Max Planck Institute of Molecular Cell Biology and Genetics. Education Hyman was educated William Ellis School, University College London and the University of ...

* 2019 :

Elena Conti Elena Conti (born 14 February 1967 in Varese, Italy) is an Italian biochemist and molecular biologist. She serves as Director and Scientific Member of the Max Planck Institute of Biochemistry in Martinsried, Germany, where she uses structural bio ...

* 2021 : Nikolaus Pfanner

References

Biology awards Awards established in 1955 1955 establishments in Germany German Academy of Sciences Leopoldina German science and technology awards Scientific research awards {{sci-award-stub