Main Page | See live article | Alphabetical index The Leeuwenhoek Medal, established in 1877 by the Dutch Royal Academy of Sciences in honor of Antoni van Leeuwenhoek, is granted every ten years to the scientist judged to have made the most significant contribution to microbiology during the preceding decade. The Leeuwenhoek Medal winners have been: 1877 C.G. Ehrenberg, Germany 1885 F. Cohn, Poland 1895 L. Pasteur, France 1905 M.W. Beijerinck, Netherlands 1915 Sir D. Bruce, United Kingdom 1925 F. d’Herelle, Egypt 1935 S. Nikolaevitch Winogradsky, France 1950 S.A. Waksman, United States 1960 A. Lwoff, France 1970 C.B. van Niel, United States 1981 R.Y. Stanier, France 1992 C.R. Woese, United States 2003 K.O. Stetter This article is from Wikipedia. All text is available under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License.