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(UNESCO) to people or organizations for their outstanding contributions to microbiology (including immunology, molecular biology, genetics, etc.) and its applications. Winners receive a grant of $5,000

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donated by the Government of Cuba and an Albert Einstein Silver Medal from UNESCO. The Prize is awarded in odd years (to coincide with UNESCO's General Conference) and is named after Carlos Juan Finlay (1833 – 1915), a

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n physician and microbiologist widely known for his pioneering discoveries in the field of

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Winners

Source
UNESCO
* 1980 - Roger Y. Stanier (Canada) * 1983 - César Milstein, FRS (Argentina, United Kingdom) * 1985 - Victor Nussenzweig and Ruth Nussenzweig (Brazil) * 1987 - Hélio Gelli Pereira (Brazil) and Peter Reichard (Sweden) * 1989 - Georges Cohen (France) and

Walter Fiers Walter Fiers (31 January 1931 in Ypres, West Flanders – 28 July 2019 in Destelbergen) was a Belgian molecular biologist. He obtained a degree of Engineer for Chemistry and Agricultural Industries at the University of Ghent in 1954, and started ...

(Belgium) * 1991 - Margarita Salas and Eladio Viñuela (Spain) and Jean-Marie Ghuysen (Belgium) * 1993 - International Society of Soil Science, James Michael Lynch (UK), James Tiedje (USA), Johannes Antonie Van Veen (Netherlands) * 1995 - Jan Balzarini (Belgium) and Pascale Cossart (France) * 1996 - Etienne Pays (Belgium) and Sheikh Riazzudin (Pakistan) * 1999 - Ádám Kondorosi (Hungary) * 2001 - Susana López Charreton and Carlos Arias Ortiz (Mexico) * 2003 - Antonio Peña Díaz (Mexico) * 2005 - Khatijah Binti Mohamad Yusoff (Malaysia) * 2015 - Yoshihiro Kawaoka (Japan) * 2017 -

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(Bangladesh) and Shahida Hasnain (Pakistan) *2020 - Kenya Honda (Japan)

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Finlay Prize for Microbiology Biology awards UNESCO awards Awards established in 1980

Winners

See also

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