"Robert Koch Medal"

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The Robert Koch Gold Medal, along with the Robert Koch Award, is one of two awards awarded annually by the Robert Koch Foundation for outstanding and internationally recognized achievements in biomedical sciences.

On March 24, 1882, German microbiologist Robert Koch isolated the bacteria Mycobacterium tuberculosis, which can cause tuberculosis in humans and some animals. His work has won international support, including 500,000 gold marks from Scottish-American philanthropist Andrew Carnegie. This was the beginning of the Robert Koch Foundation, a nonprofit organization that promotes progress in medicine and the fight against infectious diseases, in particular through financial and public recognition of basic scientific research, as well as exemplary projects aimed at solving medical and hygiene problems.

Awarded
Below is a list of scientists awarded the Robert Koch Medal from 1974 to 2017.

1974 - (Sweden)
1977 Peter Grabar (France)
1978 (Germany), (USA)
1979 Christopher Andrews (United Kingdom)
1980 - (United Kingdom)
1981 - (USA)
1982 (France), (United Kingdom), (Netherlands)
1985 - (USA)
1986 – Ernst August Ruska (Germany)
1987 - (USA)
1988 Willie Burgdorfer (USA)
1989 – Morris Hilleman (USA)
1990 - (USA)
1991 - (Germany)
1992 (Netherlands), (USA)
1993 (Germany), (Switzerland)
1994 - (Germany)
1995 - (Switzerland)
1996 – Gustav Nossal (Australia)
1997 – Satoshi Omura (Japan)
1998 – Georg Klein (Sweden)
1999 - (USA)
2000 - (Switzerland)
2001 – Evrion Mitchison (United Kingdom)
2002 - (France)
2003 Tadamitsu Kishimoto (Japan)
2004 - (Germany)
2005 - (USA)
2006 - (Germany)
2007 – Bridget Asconas (United Kingdom)
2008 – Philip Leder (USA)
2009 - (Germany)
2010 – Fotis Kafatos (United Kingdom)
2011 - (Germany)
2012 - (USA)
2013 – Anthony Fauci (USA)
2014 - (Germany)
2015 – Peter Piot (Belgium)
2016 -- (Finland)
2017 - (USA)
2018 - (Sweden)
2019 - (USA)
2020 - (Berlin)
2021 – Kiryakos Nikolau (Cyprus)

See also
Robert Koch
The Robert Koch Foundation
Robert Koch Award

Notes

References

Medals of Germany
Medical awards
Alphabetical awards
German Scientific Awards