Pius XI Medal

The Pius XI Medal is an award presented every second year by the Pontifical Academy of Sciences to a promising scientist under the age of 45.

Winners of the Pius XI Medal (1939-2020)

 * 1939 Corneille Heymans (Belgium) Physiology
 * 1942 Harlow Shapley (United States) Astronomy
 * 1943 Emmanuel de Margerie (France) Geography
 * 1962 Bengt E. Andersson (Sweden) Life Sciences
 * 1963 Aage Bohr (Denmark) Physics
 * 1964 François Gros (France) Life Sciences
 * 1966 Allan Sandage (USA) Astronomy
 * 1969 Robert Burns Woodward (USA) Chemistry
 * 1970 Haruo Kanatani (Japan) Life Sciences
 * 1972 György Némethy (Hungary) Physics
 * 1975 Stephen W. Hawking (UK) Astronomy
 * 1976 Lucio Luzzatto (Italy) Life Sciences
 * 1979 Antonio Paes de Carvalho (Brazil) Life Sciences
 * 1981 Jean-Marie Lehn (France) Chemistry
 * 1983 Gerardus t'Hooft (Netherlands) Physics
 * 1986 Elizabeth A. Bernays (Australia) Life Sciences
 * 1988 Luis Caffarelli (Argentina) Mathematics
 * 1992 Adi Shamir (Israel) Other Disciplines
 * 1996 Mark M. Davis (USA) Chemistry
 * 2000 Gillian P. Bates (UK) Life Sciences
 * 2000 Stephen W. Davies (UK) Life Sciences
 * 2002 Stanislas Dehaene (France) Life Sciences
 * 2002 Juan M. Maldacena (USA) Physics
 * 2004 Laure Saint-Raymond (France) Mathematics
 * 2006 Ashoke Sen (India) Physics
 * 2008 Juan A. Larraín (Chile) Life Sciences
 * 2010 Patrick Mehlen (France) Biology
 * 2012 Trees-Juen Chuang (Taiwan) Genomics
 * 2012 Ulrich Pöschl (Austria) Chemistry
 * 2014 Cédric Villani (France) Mathematics
 * 2016 Mariano Sigman (Argentina) Neurosciences
 * 2018 Noble Ephraim Banadda (Uganda), David M. Sabatini (USA) and Miriam Serena Vitiello (Italia)
 * 2020 Demis Hassabis (UK) Computer Science, Peter Scholze (Germany) Mathematics