Cothenius Medal

Award given by the German National Academy of Sciences Leopoldina

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Leopoldina Cothenius Medal

The Cothenius medal

Awarded for| Outstanding research in any branch of science
Sponsored by| German National Academy of Sciences Leopoldina
Country| Germany
First awarded| 1792; 232 years ago (1792)
Website| Cothenius Medal

Cothenius Medal is a medal awarded by the German National Academy of Sciences Leopoldina (known as the Leopoldina) for outstanding scientific achievement during the life of the awardee.[1] The medal was created to honour Christian Andreas Cothenius, who was the personal physician to Frederick the Great.[2] In 1743, Cothenius became a fellow of the Leopoldina, later president of the learned society that had been created by Emperor Leopold I.[2] When Cothenius died, he left a sum of money in his will to the society with the condition that the interest on the money should be used to award a gold medal, every two years by answering a question in medicine whereby some new truth could be established.[2] Up until 1864, the award came with a prize but was then converted into an award for the promotion of research over the whole period of a persons life.[3] Each medal bears the Latin inscription "Praemium virtutis salutem mortalium provehentibus sancitum" (Created in recognition of the ability of those who promote the good of mortals).[1]

## Cothenius Medal awardees, 1864-1953[edit]

Year  | Image  | Laureate  | Discipline  | City  | Ref

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1935  |  | Hans Spemann (1869 - 1941)  | Zoology  | Freiburg | [4]
1935  |  | Otfried Foerster (1873 - 1941)  | Neurology  | Breslau  |
1934  |  | Johannes Weigelt (1890 - 1948)  | Geology/Paleontology  |  |
1925  |  | Albrecht Penck (1858 - 1945)  | Geography  | Berlin  |
1925  |  | Hugo Eckener (1868 - 1954)  | Physics  | Friedrichshafen |
1925  |  | Sven Hedin (1865 - 1952)  | Geography/Ethnology  |  |
1922  |  | Albert Wangerin (1844 - 1933)  | Mathematics  | Halle |
1916  |  | Wilhelm von Waldeyer-Hartz (1836 - 1921)  | Anatomy  | Berlin  |
1914  |  | Emil Abderhalden (1877 - 1950)  | Physiology  |  |
1913  |  | Leonhard Schultze-Jena (1872 - 1955)  | Geography  | Marburg  |
1912  |  | Robert Tigerstedt (1853 - 1923)  | Physiology  | Helsingfors  |
1911  |  | Carl Chun (1852 - 1914)  | Zoology  | Leipzig  |
1910  |  | Wilhelm Pfeffer (1845 - 1920)  | Botany  | Leipzig  | [5]
1909  |  | Viktor Uhlig (1857 - 1911)  | Geology  | Vienna  | [6]
1908  |  | Daniel Vorländer (1867 - 1911)  | Chemistry  | Halle |
1907  |  | Wilhelm von Bezold (1837 - 1907)  | Meteorology  | Berlin  | [7]
1906  |  | David Hilbert (1862 - 1943)  | Mathematics  | Göttingen  |
1906  |  | Georg von Neumayer (1826 - 1909)  | Geophysics  | Neustadt, Hardt  |
1905  |  | Ernst Viktor von Leyden (1832 - 1910)  | Internal Medicine  | Berlin  |
1904  |  | Alexander Supan (1847 - 1920)  | Geography  | Gotha  | [8]
1903  |  | Ivan Petrovic Pavlov (1849 - 1936)  | Physiology  | St. Petersburg  |
1901  |  | Carl Gegenbaur (1826 - 1903)  | Anatomy  | Heidelberg  | [9]
1901  |  | Rudolf Virchow (1821 - 1902)  | Anatomy  | Berlin  | [10]
1900  |  | Joseph Dalton Hooker (1817 - 1911)  | Botany  | London  | [11]
1899  |  | Ferdinand Zirkel (1838 - 1912)  | Mineralogy  | Leipzig  | [12]
1898  |  | Emil Fischer (1852 - 1919)  | Chemistry  | Berlin  | [13]
1897  |  | Albert von Kölliker (1817 - 1905)  | Anatomy  | Würzburg  | [14]
1897  |  | Georg Quincke (1834 - 1924)  | Physics  | Heidelberg  | [15]
1896  |  | Robert von Sterneck (1839 - 1910)  | Geodesy | Vienna  | [16]
1895  |  | Alphonse Laveran (1845 - 1922)  | Tropical medicine | Paris  | [17]
1895  |  | Heinrich Ernst Beyrich (1845 - 1896)  | Geology  | Berlin  | [18]
1894  |  | Hanns Bruno Geinitz (1814 - 1900)  | Geology  | Dresden  | [19]
1894  |  | Karl von den Steinen (1855 - 1929)  | Ethnology | Neubabelsberg | [20]
1893  |  | Adolf Eugen Fick (1829 - 1901)  | Psychology  | Würzburg  | [21]
1892  |  | Gustav Retzius (1842 - 1919)  | Anatomy  | Stockholm  | [22]
1891  |  | Melchior Treub (1851 - 1910)  | Botany  | Buitenzorg | [23]

1890  |  | Dionýz Štúr (1827 - 1893)  | Geology  | Vienna  | [24]
1889  |  | Otto Wallach (1847 - 1931)  | Chemistry  | Göttingen  | [25]
1888  |  | Julius von Hann (1839 - 1921)  | Meteorology  | Vienna  |
1887  |  | Karl Weierstrass (1815 - 1897)  | Mathematics  | Berlin  |
1886  |  | Adolf Kussmaul (1822 - 1902)  | Internal Medicine  | Strasbourg  |
1885  |  | Ludwig Lindenschmit (1809 - 1893)  | Anthropology  | Mainz |
1884  |  | Rudolf Heidenhain (1834 - 1897)  | Psychology  | Breslau | [26]
1883  |  | Franz Eilhard Schulze (1840 - 1921)  | Zoology  | Graz  | [27]
1882  |  | Nathanael Pringsheim (1823 - 1894)  | Botany  | Berlin  | [28]
1881  |  | Joachim Barrande (1799 - 1883)  | Palaeontology  | Prague  | [29]
1880  |  | August Michaelis (1847 - 1916)  | Chemistry  | Karlsruhe  | [30]
1880  |  | Friedrich Wöhler (1800 - 1882)  | Chemistry  | Gottigen  | [31]
1880  |  | Heinrich Robert Göppert (1838 - 1882)  | Botany  | Breslau  | [31]
1879  |  | Wilhelm Weber (1804 - 1891)  | Physics  | Göttingen  | [32]
1878  |  | Hugo Gyldén (1841 - 1896)  | Astronomy  | Stockholm  | [33]
1877  |  | Joseph Lister (1827 - 1912)  | Surgery  | Edinburgh  | [34]
1876  |  | Alexander Ecker (1816 - 1887)  | Anatomy  | Freiburg  | [35]
1876  |  | August Weismann (1834 - 1914)  | Zoology  | Freiburg | [36]
1876  |  | August Wilhelm Eichler (1839 - 1887)  | Botany  | Kiel | [37]
1876  |  | Carl Ludwig (1816 - 1895)  | Psychology  | Leipzig | [38]
1876  |  | Ferdinand Tiemann (1848 - 1899)  | Chemistry  | Berlin  | [39]
1876  |  | Fridolin von Sandberger (1826 - 1898)  | Palaeontology | Würzburg | [40]
1876  |  | Giovanni Virginio Schiaparelli (1835-1910)  | Astronomy  | Milan | [41][42]
1876  |  | Gustav Robert Kirchhoff (1824 - 1887)  | Physics  | Berlin  | [43]
1867  |  | Wilhelm Haarmann (1847 - 1931)  | Chemistry  | Holzminden | [44]
1864  |  | Ernst Haeckel (1834 - 1919)  | Zoology  | Jena  | [45]

## Cothenius Medal awardees, 1792-1861[edit]

Main article: Cothenius Medal awardees, 1792-1861

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