The Marie Curie-Skłodowska Medal is a Polish annual science award conferred by the Polish Chemical Society (Polish: Polskie Towarzystwo Chemiczne, PTCHem) to scientists working permanently abroad for contributions in the field of chemistry.^[1]

Description

It was named in honour of physicist Marie Curie (1867–1934) and first awarded in 1996. The winner receives a bronze medal depicting Marie Curie and on the reverse the Latin inscription Quo Magis Veritas Propagatur as well as the PTCHem logo, year and the name of the laureate.

Four laureates of the medal have also been awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry: Roald Hoffmann (1981), Jean Marie Lehn (1987), Ada Yonath (2009) and Ben Feringa (2016).

Laureates

The winners of the award so far have been:

Year	Laureate(s)	Image	Country[a]	Institution(s)	Ref.
2022	Jean Marie Lehn		France	University of Strasbourg	[2]
2021	Volodymyr M. Gun’ko		Ukraine	Chuiko Institute of Surface Chemistry, National Academy of Science of Ukraine	[3]
2020	Karl Anker Jørgensen		Denmark	Aarhus University	[4]
2019	Roald Hoffmann		United States	Cornell University	[5]
2018	Jacek Klinowski		United Kingdom	University of Cambridge	[6]
2017	Krzysztof Palczewski		United States	University of California, Irvine	[7]
2016	Mietek Jaroniec		United States	Kent State University	[8]
2015	Janusz Pawliszyn		Canada	University of Waterloo	[9]
2014	John Joule		United Kingdom	University of Manchester	[10]
2013	Ben Feringa		Netherlands	University of Groningen	[11]
2012	Krzysztof Matyjaszewski		United States	Carnegie Mellon University	[12]
2011	Roland Boese		Germany	University of Duisburg-Essen	[13]
	Nicole J. Moreau		France	University of Paris	[14]
	Ada Yonath		Israel	Hebrew University of Jerusalem	[15]
2010	Anton Amann		Austria	Innsbruck Medical University	[16]
2007	Jerzy Leszczyński		United States	Jackson State University	[17]
2005	Tadeusz Maliński		United States	Ohio University	[18]
2003	Ivar Olovsson		Sweden	Uppsala University	[19]
2002	Vilim Simanek		Czech Republic	Palacký University Olomouc	[20]
2001	Gerald Djega-Mariadassou		France	Pierre and Marie Curie University	[21]
	Józef Hurwic		France	Aix-Marseille University	[22]
2000	Gerard Descotes		France	University of Lyon	[23]
	Christian Reichardt		Germany	University of Marburg	[24]
1997	Philip Kocienski		United Kingdom	University of Leeds	[25]
1996	Lodovico R. di Sanseverino		Italy	University of Bologna	[26]

Notes

• ^a Sites of the work places of the Laureates at the time of the award.

See also

• Prize of the Foundation for Polish Science
• Marian Smoluchowski Medal
• Kołos Medal

References