The Ariëns Kappers Medal is a scientific honor named after the

Dutch Dutch or Nederlands commonly refers to: * Something of, from, or related to the Netherlands ** Dutch people as an ethnic group () ** Dutch nationality law, history and regulations of Dutch citizenship () ** Dutch language () * In specific terms, i ...

neurologist Neurology (from , "string, nerve" and the suffix -logia, "study of") is the branch of medicine dealing with the diagnosis and treatment of all categories of conditions and disease involving the nervous system, which comprises the brain, the ...

Cornelius Ubbo Ariëns Kappers, the first director of the Netherlands Central Institute for Brain Research (Nederlands Instituut voor Hersenonderzoek), now the

Netherlands Institute for Neuroscience The Netherlands Institute for Neuroscience (NIN) (Dutch: ''Nederlands Herseninstituut'') is a research institute of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences (KNAW) that carries out neuroscience research with special emphasis on the brain ...

, from 1909 to 1946. The medal is awarded by the

Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences The Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences (, KNAW) is an organization dedicated to the advancement of science and literature in the Netherlands. The academy is housed in the Trippenhuis in Amsterdam. In addition to various advisory a ...

on recommendation of the

to people who have made an outstanding contribution to neuroscience.

Recipients of the Ariëns Kappers Medal

Pasko Rakic Pasko Rakic (; ; born May 15, 1933) is a Yugoslav-born American neuroscientist, who currently works in the Yale School of Medicine Department of Neuroscience in New Haven, Connecticut. His main research interest is in the development and evolut ...

(1987) *

Anders Björklund Anders Björklund (born 11 July 1945) is a Swedish neuroscientist and pioneer in the study of cell- and gene-based reparative and neuroprotective mechanisms in the brain. He has spent his academic career at Lund University in Sweden, as professo ...

(1988) *

Mortimer Mishkin Mortimer Mishkin (December 13, 1926 – October 2, 2021) was an American neuropsychologist, and winner of the 2009 National Medal of Science awarded in Behavior and Social Science. Life and career Born in Fitchburg, Massachusetts in December 1926 ...

(1989) * Robert Y. Moore (1991) * Dale Purves (1993) * Joseph S. Takahashi (1995) * Patricia S. Goldman-Rakic (1996) * Dean H. Hamer (1999) *

Gerald M. Edelman Gerald Maurice Edelman (; July 1, 1929 – May 17, 2014) was an American biologist who shared the 1972 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for work with Rodney Robert Porter on the immune system. Edelman's Nobel Prize-winning research concern ...

(1999) * Vilayanur Ramachandran (1999) *

Steven Rose Steven Peter Russell Rose (born 4 July 1938) is an English neuroscientist, author, and social commentator. He is an emeritus professor of biology and neurobiology at the Open University and Gresham College, London. Early life Born in London, U ...

(1999) *

Michael Gazzaniga Michael S. Gazzaniga (born December 12, 1939) is an American Cognitive neuroscience, cognitive neuroscientist who is an emeritus professor of psychology at the University of California, Santa Barbara. He is the founder and retired director of the ...

(1999) *

Antonio Damasio Antonio Damasio (; born 25 February 1944) is a Portuguese neuroscientist. He is currently the David Dornsife Chair in Neuroscience, as well as Professor of Psychology, Philosophy, and Neurology, at the University of Southern California, and, add ...

(1999) * Rudolf Nieuwenhuys (2000) * Mark H. Tuszynski (2001) * Dennis D.M. O'Leary (2003) *

Clifford B. Saper Clifford may refer to: People *Clifford (name), an English given name and surname, includes a list of people with that name *William Kingdon Clifford *Baron Clifford *Baron Clifford of Chudleigh *Baron de Clifford *Clifford baronets *Clifford fami ...

(2005) * James W. Fawcett (2008) * Frans B.M. De Waal (2009) *

Marcus Raichle Marcus E. Raichle (born March 15, 1937) is an American neurologist at the Washington University School of Medicine in Saint Louis, Missouri. He is a professor in the Department of Radiology with joint appointments in Neurology, Neurobiology and B ...

(2010) * Györgi Buzsáki (2014) * Rui M. Costa (2017) * Roberto Malinow (2019) *

Karl Deisseroth Karl Alexander Deisseroth (born November 18, 1971) is an American scientist. He is the Chen Din Hwa, D.H. Chen Foundation Professor of Bioengineering and of psychiatry and Behavioural sciences, behavioral sciences at Stanford University. He is ...

(2021)

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