CNRS Gold Medal

Gold medal recipients

• 1954 Émile Borel – Mathematics
• 1955 Louis de Broglie – Physics
• 1956 Jacques Hadamard – Mathematics
• 1957 Gaston Dupouy – Physics
• 1958 Gaston Ramon – Immunology
• 1959 André Danjon – Astrophysics
• 1960 Raoul Blanchard – Geography
• 1961 Pol Bouin – Physiology
• 1962 Marcel Delépine – Chemistry
• 1963 Robert Courrier – Biology
• 1964 Alfred Kastler – Physics
• 1965 Louis Néel – Physics
• 1966 Paul Pascal – Chemistry
• 1967 Claude Lévi-Strauss – Ethnology
• 1968 Boris Ephrussi – Genetics
• 1969 Georges Chaudron – Chemistry
• 1970 Jacques Friedel – Physics
• 1971 Bernard Halpern – Immunology
• 1972 Jacques Oudin – Immunology
• 1973 André Leroi-Gourhan – Ethnology
• 1974 Edgar Lederer – Biochemistry
• 1975 Raymond Castaing – Physics, and Christiane Desroches Noblecourt – Egyptology
• 1976 Henri Cartan – Mathematics
• 1977 Charles Fehrenbach – Astronomy
• 1978 Maurice Allais – Economics, and Pierre Jacquinot – Physics
• 1979 Pierre Chambon – Biology
• 1980 Pierre-Gilles De Gennes – Physics
• 1981 Jean-Marie Lehn – Chemistry, and Roland Martin – Archaeology
• 1982 Pierre Joliot – Biochemistry
• 1983 Evry Schatzman – Astrophysics
• 1984 Jean Brossel – Physics, and Jean-Pierre Vernant – History
• 1985 Piotr Slonimski – Genetics
• 1986 Nicole Le Douarin – Embryology
• 1987 Georges Canguilhem – Philosophy, and Jean-Pierre Serre – Mathematics
• 1988 Philippe Nozieres – Physics
• 1989 Michel Jouvet – Biology
• 1990 Marc Julia – Chemistry
• 1991 Jacques Le Goff – History
• 1992 Jean-Pierre Changeux – Neurobiology
• 1993 Pierre Bourdieu – Sociology
• 1994 Claude Allègre – Geophysics
• 1995 Claude Hagège – Linguistics
• 1996 Claude Cohen-Tannoudji – Physics
• 1997 Jean Rouxel – Chemistry
• 1998 Pierre Potier – Chemistry
• 1999 Jean-Claude Risset – Computer-Music
• 2000 Michel Lazdunski – Biochemistry
• 2001 Maurice Godelier – Anthropology
• 2002 Claude Lorius – Climatology, and Jean Jouzel – Climatology
• 2003 Albert Fert – Physics
• 2004 Alain Connes – Mathematics
• 2005 Alain Aspect – Physics
• 2006 Jacques Stern – Computer-Sciences
• 2007 Jean Tirole – Economics
• 2008 Jean Weissenbach – Genetics
• 2009 Serge Haroche – Physics
• 2010 Gérard Férey – Chemistry
• 2011 Jules A. Hoffmann – Biology
• 2012 Philippe Descola – Anthropology
• 2013 Margaret Buckingham – Developmental Biology
• 2014 Gérard Berry – Computer-Sciences
• 2015 Éric Karsenti – Biology
• 2016 Claire Voisin – Mathematics
• 2017 Alain Brillet – Physics, and Thibault Damour – Physics
• 2018 Barbara Cassin – Philosophy
• 2019 Thomas Ebbesen – Physical chemistry
• 2020 Françoise Combes – Astrophysics
• 2021 Jean Dalibard – Physics
• 2022 Jean-Marie Tarascon – Chemistry
• 2023 Sandra Lavorel – Ecology
• 2024 Edith Heard – Biology