The Leeuwenhoek Medal, established in 1875 by the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences (KNAW), in honor of the 17th- and 18th-century microscopist Antoni van Leeuwenhoek, is granted every ten years to the scientist judged to have made the most significant contribution to

microbiology Microbiology () is the branches of science, scientific study of microorganisms, those being of unicellular organism, unicellular (single-celled), multicellular organism, multicellular (consisting of complex cells), or non-cellular life, acellula ...

during the preceding decade. Starting in 2015, the Royal Dutch Society for Microbiology (KNVM) began awarding the Leeuwenhoek Medal, selecting Jillian Banfield, the first woman to receive the award in 2023.

Recipients

The following persons have received the Leeuwenhoek medal: *1877

Christian Gottfried Ehrenberg Christian Gottfried Ehrenberg (19 April 1795 – 27 June 1876) was a German Natural history, naturalist, zoologist, Botany, botanist, comparative anatomist, geologist, and microscopy, microscopist. He is considered to be one of the most famous an ...

, Germany *1885

Ferdinand Cohn Ferdinand Julius Cohn (24 January 1828 – 25 June 1898) was a German biologist. He is one of the founders of modern bacteriology and microbiology. Biography Ferdinand Julius Cohn was born in the Jewish quarter of Breslau in the Prussian Pro ...

, Germany *1895

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

, France *1905 Martinus Beijerinck, Netherlands *1915 Sir David Bruce, United Kingdom *1925 Félix d'Herelle, (at the time) Egypt *1935 Sergei Nikolaevitch Winogradsky, France *1950 Selman Abraham Waksman, United States *1960 André Lwoff, France *1970 Cornelius Bernardus van Niel (Kees van Niel), United States *1981 Roger Yate Stanier, France *1992 Carl Woese, United States *2003 Karl Stetter, Germany *2015 Craig Venter, United States of America *2023 Jillian Banfield, Australia

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