Marie Curie Medal

Polish international chemistry prize

Award

Marie Curie-Skłodowska Medal

Awarded for| significant contributions in the field of chemistry
Country| Poland
Presented by| Polish Chemical Society
First award| 1996
Website| ptchem.pl/pl/honors/winners-of-the-medals-and-ptchem-awards

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

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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

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The winners of the award so far have been:

Year  | Laureate(s)  | Image  | Country[a] | Institution(s)  | Ref.

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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

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* a Sites of the work places of the Laureates at the time of the award.

## See also

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

## References

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1. ^ "Wyróżnienia". ptchem.pl (in Polish). Retrieved 21 April 2023.
2. ^ "Nobel Awardee Jean-Marie Lehn receiving the Maria Sklodowska-Curie Medal by the Polish Chemical Society at ICNI2022 in Strasbourg". twitter.com. Retrieved 21 April 2023.
3. ^ "Laureaci Medali i Nagród PTChem". Retrieved 21 April 2023.
4. ^ Kristoffer Jakobsen (29 January 2020). "PROFESSOR KARL ANKER JØRGENSEN RECEIVES THE MARIA SKŁODOWSKA-CURIE MEDAL". newsroom.au.dk. Retrieved 21 April 2023.
5. ^ Vera Koester (7 September 2019). "100 Years Polish Chemical Society". chemistryviews.org. Retrieved 21 April 2023.
6. ^ "Laureaci Medali i Nagród PTChem". Retrieved 21 April 2023.
7. ^ "Laureaci Medali i Nagród PTChem". Retrieved 21 April 2023.
8. ^ "KENT STATE CHEMISTRY PROFESSOR AWARDED THE MARIE SKLODOWSKA-CURIE MEDAL IN POLAND". kent.edu. Retrieved 21 April 2023.
9. ^ "Laureaci Medali i Nagród PTChem". Retrieved 21 April 2023.
10. ^ "Laureaci Medali i Nagród PTChem". Retrieved 21 April 2023.
11. ^ "Nobel Prize for Ben Feringa". rug.nl. 5 October 2016. Retrieved 21 April 2023.
12. ^ "Laureaci Medali i Nagród PTChem". Retrieved 21 April 2023.
13. ^ "Laureaci Medali i Nagród PTChem". Retrieved 21 April 2023.
14. ^ "Laureaci Medali i Nagród PTChem". Retrieved 21 April 2023.
15. ^ "ADA YONATH - CURRICULUM VITAE Sept 22" (PDF). weizmann.ac.il. Retrieved 21 April 2023.
16. ^ "Laureaci Medali i Nagród PTChem". Retrieved 21 April 2023.
17. ^ "Laureaci Medali i Nagród PTChem". Retrieved 21 April 2023.
18. ^ "Laureaci Medali i Nagród PTChem". Retrieved 21 April 2023.
19. ^ "Ivar Olovsson receives Marie Sklodowska-Curie Medal". iucr.org. Retrieved 21 April 2023.
20. ^ "Ivar Olovsson receives Marie Sklodowska-Curie Medal". iucr.org. Retrieved 21 April 2023.
21. ^ "Ivar Olovsson receives Marie Sklodowska-Curie Medal". iucr.org. Retrieved 21 April 2023.
22. ^ "Ivar Olovsson receives Marie Sklodowska-Curie Medal". iucr.org. Retrieved 21 April 2023.
23. ^ "MEDAL AMICO: PROF. GERARD DESCOTES". uni.lodz.pl (in Polish). Retrieved 21 April 2023.
24. ^ "Ivar Olovsson receives Marie Sklodowska-Curie Medal". iucr.org. Retrieved 21 April 2023.
25. ^ "Ivar Olovsson receives Marie Sklodowska-Curie Medal". iucr.org. Retrieved 21 April 2023.
26. ^ "Ivar Olovsson receives Marie Sklodowska-Curie Medal". iucr.org. Retrieved 21 April 2023.

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Marie and  Pierre Curie

Discoveries|

* Curie's law
* Curie–Weiss law
* Curie temperature
* Mean-field theory
* Piezoelectricity
* Polonium
* Radioactivity
* Radium

Publications|

* Curie's principle
* Treatise on Radioactivity

Museums|

* Maria Skłodowska-Curie Museum

Family|

* Irène Joliot-Curie (daughter)
* Ève Curie (daughter)
* Hélène Langevin-Joliot (granddaughter)
* Pierre Joliot (grandson)
* Paul-Jacques Curie (Pierre's brother)
* Frédéric Joliot-Curie (son-in-law)

Namesakes|

* Curie Institute
* Curie
* Curium
* IEEE Marie Sklodowska-Curie Award
* Marie Curie Medal
* Maria Skłodowska-Curie Bridge
* Maria Skłodowska-Curie Park
* Maria Curie-Skłodowska University
* Pierre and Marie Curie University
* Maria Skłodowska-Curie National Research Institute of Oncology
* Curie Island
* 7000 Curie

Depictions|

* Maria Skłodowska-Curie Monument in Lublin
* Maria Skłodowska-Curie Monument in Warsaw (Downtown)
* Maria Skłodowska-Curie Monument in Warsaw (Ochota)
* Marie Curie Gargoyle
* Maria Skłodowska-Curie Medallion
* Madame Curie (1943 film)
* Les Palmes de M. Schutz (1997 film)
* Marie Curie, une femme sur le front (2014 film)
* Marie Curie: The Courage of Knowledge (2016 film)
* Radioactive (2019 film)

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