Gran Prix Charles-Leopold Mayer
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The Grand Prix Charles-Léopold Mayer (Charles-Léopold Mayer Prize) is awarded annually by the Académie des Sciences (French Academy of Sciences) de l'Institut de France
(the French Institute) to researchers who have performed outstanding work in the biological sciences; especially in the areas of cell or molecular biology. Citizens or residents of any nation are eligible for the prize, but it is never awarded to individuals of the same nation two years in a row, nor is the prize ever presented to scholars who are more than 65 years of age. Between the first presentation of the award in 1961 and the year 2009, there have been more than 60 laureates, eleven of whom subsequently received the Nobel Prize
in Medicine or Physiology, or in Chemistry.
Institut de France
The Institut de France is a French learned society, grouping five académies, the most famous of which is the Académie française.The institute, located in Paris, manages approximately 1,000 foundations, as well as museums and chateaux open for visit. It also awards prizes and subsidies, which...
(the French Institute) to researchers who have performed outstanding work in the biological sciences; especially in the areas of cell or molecular biology. Citizens or residents of any nation are eligible for the prize, but it is never awarded to individuals of the same nation two years in a row, nor is the prize ever presented to scholars who are more than 65 years of age. Between the first presentation of the award in 1961 and the year 2009, there have been more than 60 laureates, eleven of whom subsequently received the Nobel Prize
Nobel Prize
The Nobel Prizes are annual international awards bestowed by Scandinavian committees in recognition of cultural and scientific advances. The will of the Swedish chemist Alfred Nobel, the inventor of dynamite, established the prizes in 1895...
in Medicine or Physiology, or in Chemistry.
List of Recipients of the Grand Prix Charles-Léopold Mayer
- 2011 - Jean-Marc Reichhart
- 2010 - Robert TjianRobert TjianRobert Tjian is a U.S. biochemist best known for his work on eukaryotic transcription. He is currently Professor of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology at the University of California, Berkeley and an investigator of the Howard Hughes Medical Institute...
- 2009 - Marie-France Carlier
- 2008 - Adrian P. Bird
- 2007 - Éric Westhof
- 2006 - Bruce A. BeutlerBruce A. BeutlerBruce Alan Beutler is an American immunologist and geneticist. Together with Jules A. Hoffmann, they received one-half of the 2011 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, for "their discoveries concerning the activation of innate immunity" Bruce Alan Beutler (born December 29, 1957) is an American...
- 2005 - Jean Dénarié
- 2004 - Denis DubouleDenis DubouleDenis Duboule is a Swiss-French biologist. He has notably worked on the Hox genes involved in development of limbs.- Biography :Duboule obtained a PhD from University of Geneva in 1984....
- 2003 - Paolo Sassone-Corsi
- 2002 - Roger D. KornbergRoger D. KornbergRoger David Kornberg is an American biochemist and professor of structural biology at Stanford University School of Medicine.Kornberg was awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 2006 for his studies of the process by which genetic information from DNA is copied to RNA, "the molecular basis of...
- 2001 - Joël Bockaert
- 2000 - H. Robert HorvitzH. Robert HorvitzHoward Robert Horvitz is an American biologist best known for his research on the nematode worm Caenorhabditis elegans.-Life:Horvitz did his undergraduate studies at MIT in 1968, where he joined Alpha Epsilon Pi...
- 1999 - Christine Petit
- 1998 - Elizabeth BlackburnElizabeth BlackburnElizabeth Helen Blackburn, AC, FRS is an Australian-born American biological researcher at the University of California, San Francisco, who studies the telomere, a structure at the end of chromosomes that protects the chromosome. Blackburn co-discovered telomerase, the enzyme that replenishes the...
- 1997 - Andre Sentenac
- 1996 - Stanley B. PrusinerStanley B. PrusinerStanley Ben Prusiner is an American neurologist and biochemist. Currently the director of the Institute for Neurodegenerative Diseases at University of California, San Francisco . Prusiner discovered prions, a class of infectious self-reproducing pathogens primarily or solely composed of protein...
- 1995 - Moshe Yaniv
- 1994 - Ralph L. BrinsterRalph L. BrinsterRalph Lawrence Brinster is an American geneticist and Richard King Mellon Professor of Reproductive Physiology at the School of Veterinary Medicine, University of Pennsylvania.- Birth and education :...
and Richard Palmiter - 1993 - Andrée Tixier-Vidal
- 1992 - Raymond Devoret and Miroslav RadmanMiroslav RadmanMiroslav Radman is a prominent Croatian biologist and a member of the French Academy of Sciences. Radman's specialty is DNA repair; in 1974 he discovered the SOS response...
- 1991 - Jean-Charles Schwartz
- 1990 - Jozef SchellJozef SchellJozef Stefaan Schell was a Belgian molecular biologist.Jozef Schell studied Zoology and microbiology at the University of Ghent, Belgium. From 1967 to 1995 he worked as a professor at the university...
and Marc Van MontaguMarc Van MontaguMarc Van Montagu is a Belgian molecular biologist. He was full Professor and director of the Laboratory of Genetics at the faculty of Sciences at Ghent University and scientific director of the Genetics Department of the Flanders Interuniversity Institute for Biotechnology... - 1989 - Marc Chabre
- 1988 - David Sabatini
- 1987 - Paul Cohen
- 1986 - Antonio Garcia-BellidoAntonio Garcia-BellidoAntonio García-Bellido ForMemRS is a Spanish Developmental biologist.-Life:He is Research Professor at the Spanish National Research Council since 1974.-External links:...
and Walter Jakob GehringWalter Jakob GehringWalter Jakob Gehring is Professor at the Biozentrum of the University of Basel, Switzerland. He obtained his Ph.D... - 1985 - Jean Montreuil
- 1984 - John Bertrand Gurdon
- 1983 - Michel Lazdunski and Vittorio Luzzati
- 1982 - Barbara McClintockBarbara McClintockBarbara McClintock , the 1983 Nobel Laureate in Physiology or Medicine, was an American scientist and one of the world's most distinguished cytogeneticists. McClintock received her PhD in botany from Cornell University in 1927, where she was a leader in the development of maize cytogenetics...
and Armine Braun - 1981 - François Chapeville and Léon Hirth
- 1980 - Philippe L'Héritier
- 1979 - David Mervyn Blow and David Chilton PhillipsDavid Chilton PhillipsDavid Chilton Phillips, Baron Phillips of Ellesmere, KBE, FRS is considered to be a founding father of the now expanding field of structural biology and was an influential figure in science and government...
- 1978 - Roger Monier and Piotr Slonimski
- 1977 - Walter GilbertWalter GilbertWalter Gilbert is an American physicist, biochemist, molecular biology pioneer, and Nobel laureate.-Biography:Gilbert was born in Boston, Massachusetts, on March 21, 1932...
, Mark PtashneMark PtashneMark Ptashne is a molecular biologist and violinist. He currently holds the Ludwig Chair of Molecular Biology at Memorial Sloan–Kettering Cancer Center in New York...
, and Evelyn M. WitkinEvelyn M. WitkinEvelyn M. Witkin, born Evelyn Maisel is an American geneticist whose research has been widely influential in the areas of DNA mutagenesis and DNA repair.... - 1976 - Jean-Pierre Ebel and Élie Wollman
- 1975 - Sydney BrennerSydney BrennerSydney Brenner, CH FRS is a South African biologist and a 2002 Nobel prize in Physiology or Medicine laureate, shared with H...
- 1974 - Georges Cohen
- 1973 - Jacques Oudin
- 1972 - Robert W. Briggs and Thomas J. KingThomas J. KingThomas J. King was an American biologist.-Biography:With Robert William Briggs, he worked on transplantation of somatic cell nuclei from adult frogs into enucleated oocytes this leading to the first clone of an animal in 1952...
- 1971 - Boris EphrussiBoris EphrussiBoris Ephrussi , Professor of Genetics at the University of Paris, was a Russo-French geneticist from the Ephrussi family.His father, Samuil Osipovich Ephrussi, was a chemical engineer; his grandfather, Joseph Ephrusi , was the founder of a banking dynasty in Kishinev. He published two papers in...
- 1970 - Raymond Latarjet
- 1969 - Jean BrachetJean BrachetJean Louis Auguste Brachet was a Belgian biochemist who made a key contribution in understanding the role of RNA....
- 1968 - François Gros
- 1967 - Marshall Nirenberg
- 1966 - Marianne Grunberg-ManagoMarianne Grunberg-ManagoDr. Marianne Grunberg-Manago, PhD, is an French biochemist.Grunberg-Manago was born into a family of artists who adhered to the teachings of the Swiss educational reformer Johann Pestalozzi. When she was 9 months old, her parents emigrated from the Soviet Union to France...
- 1965 - Honor Bridget Fell
- 1964 - André Lwoff
- 1963 - Erwin ChargaffErwin ChargaffErwin Chargaff was an American biochemist who emigrated to the United States during the Nazi era. Through careful experimentation, Chargaff discovered two rules that helped lead to the discovery of the double helix structure of DNA...
- 1962 - François JacobFrançois JacobFrançois Jacob is a French biologist who, together with Jacques Monod, originated the idea that control of enzyme levels in all cells occurs through feedback on transcription. He shared the 1965 Nobel Prize in Medicine with Jacques Monod and André Lwoff.-Childhood and education:François Jacob is...
and Jacques MonodJacques MonodJacques Lucien Monod was a French biologist who was awarded a Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1965, sharing it with François Jacob and Andre Lwoff "for their discoveries concerning genetic control of enzyme and virus synthesis"... - 1961 - Francis CrickFrancis CrickFrancis Harry Compton Crick OM FRS was an English molecular biologist, biophysicist, and neuroscientist, and most noted for being one of two co-discoverers of the structure of the DNA molecule in 1953, together with James D. Watson...
External links
- Institut de France, Académie des Sciences - Official Site
- List of Laureates since 1961 (retrieved March 20, 2011)