A.O. Kovalevsky Medal

Recipients

• 2023 Veronica Hinman, Distinguished Professor of Life Sciences, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania (USA)
• 2021 Nipam Patel, University of Chicago and Director of the Marine Biological Laboratory (USA)
• 2020 Edward M. De Robertis, Department of Biological Chemistry, University of California at Los Angeles (USA)
• 2019 Mary E. Rice, Director of the Smithsonian Marine Station at Fort Pierce Florida, (USA)
• 2018 Andreas Hejnol, Professor of Molecular Biology, University of Bergen (Norway)
• 2017 Vladimir Malakhov, Department of Invertebrate Zoology, Lomonosov Moscow State University, Moscow (Russia)
• 2016 Günter Wagner, Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Yale University, New Haven CT (USA)
• 2015 Frederik Nijhout, Department of Biology, Duke University, Durham NC (USA)
• 2014 Linda Zimmerman Holland and Nicholas Drew Holland (jointly), Marine Biology Research Division, Scripps Institution of Oceanography, University of California at San Diego (USA).
• 2013 Denis Duboule, École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL), University of Geneva (Switzerland)
• 2012 William R. Jeffery, Professor of Biology, University of Maryland (USA)
• 2011 Detlev Arendt, European Molecular Biology Laboratory, Heidelberg (Germany).
• 2010 Shigeru Kuratani from the Center for Developmental Biology, Kobe (Japan)
• 2009 Mark Q. Martindale, Professor of Organismal Biology and Director of Kewalo Marine Laboratory, University of Hawaii (USA)
• 2008 Sean B. Carroll, Professor of Molecular Biology and Genetics, University of Wisconsin (USA)
• 2007 Michael Edwin Akam, Professor of Zoology and Director, University Museum of Zoology, Cambridge (United Kingdom)
• 2006 Peter Holland, Department of Zoology, Oxford (United Kingdom)
• 2005 Noriyuki Satoh, Department of Zoology, Faculty of Science, Kyoto University (Japan)
• 2004 Scott Gilbert, Howard A. Schneiderman Professor of Biology, Swarthmore College (USA)
• 2003 Walter Jakob Gehring, Professor, Biozentrum, University of Basel (Switzerland)
• 2002 Eric H. Davidson, Norman Chandler Professor of Cell Biology. California Institute of Technology, Pasadena (USA)

The 2001 medal was awarded to

• Donald Thomas Anderson (Australia), comparative anatomy and embryology
• Gary Freeman (USA), Professor of Zoology University of Texas Austin, embryological grounds of animal evolution
• Brian Hall (Canada), Professor of Biology, Dalhousie University, Halifax, Canada; synthesis of embryology and evolution
• Olga Mikhailovna Ivanova-Kazas, Professor of St. Petersburg State University (Russia)
• Claus Nielsen (Denmark), development of comparative morphology and phylogeny of multi-celled organisms
• Rudolf Raff (USA), James H. Rudy Professor of Biology, at Indiana University, and the author of several books on embryology and evolution
• Rupert Riedl (Austria), Professor of Zoology at the Vienna University, Austria
• Klaus Sander (Germany), Professor of Zoology at Freiburg University, Germany