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 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

Source: KNVM

1877 Christian Gottfried Ehrenberg, Germany

1885 Ferdinand Cohn, Germany

1895 Louis Pasteur, 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

See also

Royal Society Leeuwenhoek Lecture

List of biology awards

References

Biology awards

Dutch honorary society awards

Dutch science and technology awards

Microbiology

1877 establishments in the Netherlands

Antonie van Leeuwenhoek

Awards established in 1877

Leeuwenhoek Medal