Echegaray Medal
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ToursExplore Lably’s 3D toursThe first time it was granted was in 1907 to the eponymous José Echegaray. More than a hundred years after the award was created, the first woman to receive the Echegaray Medal was Margarita Salas in 2016 during a ceremony which was presided over by Juan Carlos I and Queen Sofía of Spain.
Past recipients
- 1907 José Echegaray
- 1910 Eduardo Saavedra
- 1913 SAS el Príncipe Alberto I de Mónaco
- 1916 Leonardo Torres Quevedo
- 1919 Svante Arrhenius
- 1922 Santiago Ramón y Cajal
- 1925 Hendrik Antoon Lorentz
- 1928 Ignacio Bolívar
- 1931 Ernest Rutherford
- 1934 Joaquín María de Castellarnau
- 1968 Obdulio Fernández
- 1975 José María Otero de Navascués
- 1979 José García Santesmases
- 1998 Manuel Lora Tamayo
- 2016 Margarita Salas
- 2018 Mariano Barbacid
- 2020 Francisco Guinea
- 2022 José A. Carrillo
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