The Montyon Prize (french: Prix Montyon) is a series of prizes awarded annually by the

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and the

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. They are endowed by the

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benefactor Baron de Montyon.

History

Prior to the start of the

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, the Baron de Montyon established a series of prizes to be given away by the Académie Française, the

Académie des Sciences The French Academy of Sciences (French: ''Académie des sciences'') is a learned society, founded in 1666 by Louis XIV at the suggestion of Jean-Baptiste Colbert, to encourage and protect the spirit of French scientific research. It was at ...

, and the

Académie Nationale de Médecine Situated at 16 Rue Bonaparte in the 6th arrondissement of Paris, the Académie nationale de médecine (National Academy of Medicine) was created in 1820 by King Louis XVIII at the urging of baron Antoine Portal. At its inception, the instituti ...

. These were abolished by the

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, but were taken up again when Baron de Montyon returned to France in 1815. When he died, he bequeathed a large sum of money for the perpetual endowment of four annual prizes. The endowed prizes were as follows: * Making an industrial process less unhealthy * Perfecting of any technical improvement in a mechanical process * Book which during the year rendered the greatest service to humanity * The "prix de vertu" for the most courageous act on the part of a poor Frenchman These prizes were considered by some to be a forerunner of the

Nobel Prize The Nobel Prizes ( ; sv, Nobelpriset ; no, Nobelprisen ) are five separate prizes that, according to Alfred Nobel's will of 1895, are awarded to "those who, during the preceding year, have conferred the greatest benefit to humankind." Alfr ...

List of winners

* Jean Guénisset (1820) * François-Xavier-Joseph Droz (1823) *

Antoine Germain Labarraque Antoine Germain Labarraque (28 March 1777 – 9 December 1850)Maurice Bouvet. Les grands pharmaciens: Labarraque (1777-1850)' (Revue d'histoire de la pharmacie, 1950, Volume 38, no. 128, pp. 97-107). was a French chemist and pharmacist, notable f ...

(1825) * Friedrich Sertürner (1831) *

Alexis de Tocqueville Alexis Charles Henri Clérel, comte de Tocqueville (; 29 July 180516 April 1859), colloquially known as Tocqueville (), was a French aristocrat, diplomat, political scientist, political philosopher and historian. He is best known for his wo ...

(1835) * Philippe Ricord (1842) * Jeanne Jugan (1845) * Jules Verne *

Louis Pasteur Louis Pasteur (, ; 27 December 1822 – 28 September 1895) was a French chemist and microbiologist renowned for his discoveries of the principles of vaccination, microbial fermentation and pasteurization, the latter of which was named afte ...

(1859) *

Louis Melsens Louis-Henri-Frédéric Melsens (July 11, 1814 in Leuven – April 20, 1886 in Brussels) was a Belgian physicist and chemist. In 1846, he became professor of chemistry at the Royal Veterinary School of Cureghem in Anderlecht, Brussels. Melsen ...

(1865) * Joséphine Colomb (1875) * Mary Mapes Dodge (1876) *

Axel Key Ernst Axel Henrik Key (25 October 1832 – 27 December 1901) was a Swedish pathologist, member of parliament, writer and rector at Karolinska Institute. Biography Upbringing and education Key was born in 1832 in Johannisberg in Flisby sock ...

(1878) * Hector Malot (1878) *

George Henry Corliss George Henry Corliss (June 2, 1817 – February 21, 1888) was an American mechanical engineer and inventor, who developed the Corliss steam engine, which was a great improvement over any other stationary steam engine of its time. The Corliss ...

(1879) *

Jacques-Arsène d'Arsonval Jacques-Arsène d'Arsonval (8 June 1851 – 31 December 1940) was a French physician, physicist and inventor of the moving-coil D'Arsonval galvanometer and the thermocouple ammeter. D'Arsonval was an important contributor to the emerging field of ...

(1882) * Victor André Cornil 1886 *

Louis Fréchette Louis may refer to: * Louis (coin) * Louis (given name), origin and several individuals with this name * Louis (surname) * Louis (singer), Serbian singer * HMS ''Louis'', two ships of the Royal Navy See also Derived or associated terms * Lewis (d ...

* Charles Thomas Jackson * Jean-Henri Fabre * Marie Célestine Amélie d'Armaillé (1887) *

Claire Julie de Nanteuil Claire Julie de Nanteuil (née, Pascalis; pen names, Mrs. P. de Nanteuil and Mrs. de Nanteuil; 27 October 1834 – 17 June 1897) was a 19th-century French writer. She was a two time recipient of the Montyon Prize. Nanteuil died in 1897 Biography ...

(1888) *

(1890) * François Marie Galliot (1895) *

Juliette Heuzey Juliette Heuzey (after marriage, Goyau; pen names, Jules-Philippe Heuzey, J.Ph. Heuzey, Mme. Georges Goyau; 1 January 1865 – 7 July 1952) was a French writer. She was a recipient of the Montyon Prize. Biography Juliette Heuzey was born 1 Janua ...

(1897) * Ludovic de Contenson (1902). *

Laure Conan Marie-Louise-Félicité Angers (9 January 1845 – 6 June 1924), better known by her pen name Laure Conan, was a French Canadian writer and journalist. She is regarded as one of the first French-Canadian female novelists and the writer of th ...

(1903) *

Charles Nicolle Charles Jules Henri Nicolle (21 September 1866 – 28 February 1936) was a French bacteriologist who received the Nobel Prize in Medicine for his identification of lice as the transmitter of epidemic typhus. Family Nicolle was born to Aline L ...

(1909, 1912, 1914) *

Edward Tuck Edward Tuck (August 24, 1842 – April 30, 1938) was an American banker, diplomat, and philanthropist. He is known for funding the establishment of the Tuck School of Business at his alma mater, Dartmouth College. The son of Amos Tuck, a found ...

and Julia Stell (1916) *

Victor Babeș Victor Babeș (; 28 July 1854 in Vienna – 19 October 1926 in Bucharest) was a Romanian physician, bacteriologist, academician and professor. One of the founders of modern microbiology, Victor Babeș is author of one of the first treatises of ba ...

(1924) *

Armand Praviel Armand refer to: People * Armand (name), list of people with this name *Armand (photographer) (1901–1963), Armenian photographer *Armand (singer) (1946–2015), Dutch protest singer *Sean Armand (born 1991), American basketball player *Armand, ...

(1925)

"Armand Praviel"
Retrieved 16 February 2019 . * Suzanne Lavaud (1932) * Louise Thuliez (1935) * Valentine Thomson (1937) * Germaine Acremant (1940) * Ivan Đaja (1946) * Daniel Dugué (1947) * André Giroux (1949) * Alix André (1951) *

Nicolas Minorsky Nicolas Minorsky (born Nikolai Fyodorovich Minorsky, russian: Николай Федорович Минорский; , Korcheva, Russian Empire – 31 July 1970, Italy) was a Russian American control theory mathematician, engineer. and ap ...

(1955) *

Kitty Ponse Kitty Ponse (5 September 1897 – 10 February 1982) was a Swiss zoologist and endocrinologist. She was a professor at the University of Geneva and received the Swiss Otto Naegeli Prize in 1961. Life and career Ponse was born in Sumatra, then pa ...

* Antoine de La Garanderie (1970) * Gaston Bouthoul (1971) *

Bertrand de Margerie Bertrand may refer to: Places * Bertrand, Missouri, US * Bertrand, Nebraska, US * Bertrand, New Brunswick, Canada * Bertrand Township, Michigan, US * Bertrand, Michigan * Bertrand, Virginia, US * Bertrand Creek, state of Washington * Saint-Ber ...

(1972) * Alexandre Jollien (2000) * Alberte van Herwynen (2001) *

Charles-Nicolas Peaucellier Charles-Nicolas Peaucellier (16 June 1832 – 4 October 1919) was a French engineer who graduated from the ''École polytechnique''. He made a career in the French army and was promoted to ''général de division'' in 1888. He is best known ...

* René Guitton (2002) * Michèle-Irène Brudny (2003) * Jacques Julliard (2004) * Joël Bouessée (2004) * Henri Hude (2005) * Renaud Girard (2006) * Marie-Frédérique Pellegrin (2007) * Jean-François Mattéi (2008) * Myriam Revault D'Allonnes (2009) * William Marx (2010) * Stéphane Chauvier (2011) * Bérénice Levet (2012) * Anca Vasiliu (2013) * Fabrice Wilhelm (2014) * Nathalie Heinich (2015) *

Hervé Gaymard Hervé Gaymard (born 31 May 1960) is a French politician and a member of The Republicans conservative party. He served as the country's Minister of Finances from 30 November 2004 until his resignation on 25 February 2005. Gaymard attended S ...

(2016) * Denis Lacorne (2017) *

Gilles Lipovetsky Gilles Lipovetsky (born September 24, 1944) is a French philosopher, writer, and sociologist, professor at Stendhal University in Grenoble, Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes, France. Life and career Lipovetsky was born in Millau in 1944. He studied philoso ...

(2018) * Isabelle de Lamberterie (2019) * Isabelle Mordant (2020) * Jean Seidengart (2021) * Neil MacGregor (2022)

External links

Catholic encyclopedia entry

References

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