The Grand Prix Charles-Léopold Mayer (Charles-Léopold Mayer Prize) is awarded annually by the Académie des Sciences (French Academy of Sciences) de l'Institut de France (the French Institute) to researchers who have performed outstanding work in the biological sciences; especially in the areas of cell or molecular biology. Citizens or residents of any nation are eligible for the prize, but it is never awarded to individuals of the same nation two years in a row, nor is the prize ever presented to scholars who are more than 65 years of age. Between the first presentation of the award in 1961 and the year 2009, there have been more than 60 laureates, eleven of whom subsequently received the Nobel Prize in medicine, physiology, or chemistry.
The prize is named after French biochemist Charles Léopold Mayer.
List of Recipients of the Grand Prix Charles-Léopold Mayer Source: Académie des sciences
2019 - Silvia Arber 2018 - Eric Gilson 2016 - Claude Desplan 2015 - François Schweisguth 2014 - C. David Allis 2013 - Vincent Colot 2012 - Lyndon Emsley 2011 - Jean-Marc Reichhart 2010 - Robert Tjian 2009 - Marie-France Carlier 2008 - Adrian P. Bird 2007 - Eric Westhof 2006 - Bruce A. Beutler 2005 - Jean Dénarié 2004 - Denis Duboule 2003 - Paolo Sassone-Corsi 2002 - Roger D. Kornberg 2001 - Joël Bockaert 2000 - H. Robert Horvitz 1999 - Christine Petit 1998 - Elizabeth Blackburn
1997 - Andre Sentenac 1996 - Stanley B. Prusiner 1995 - Moshe Yaniv 1994 - Ralph L. Brinster and Richard Palmiter 1993 - Andrée Tixier-Vidal 1992 - Raymond Devoret and Miroslav Radman 1991 - Jean-Charles Schwartz 1990 - Jozef Schell and Marc Van Montagu 1989 - Marc Chabre 1988 - David Sabatini 1987 - Paul Cohen 1986 - Antonio García-Bellido and Walter Jakob Gehring 1985 - Jean Montreuil 1984 - John Bertrand Gurdon 1983 - Michel Lazdunski and Vittorio Luzzati 1982 - Barbara McClintock and Armine Braun 1981 - François Chapeville and Léon Hirth 1980 - Philippe L'Héritier
1979 - David Mervyn Blow and David Chilton Phillips 1978 - Roger Monier and Piotr Slonimski 1977 - Walter Gilbert, Mark Ptashne, and Evelyn M. Witkin 1976 - Jean-Pierre Ebel and Élie Wollman 1975 - Sydney Brenner 1974 - Georges Cohen 1973 - Jacques Oudin 1972 - Robert W. Briggs and Thomas J. King 1971 - Boris Ephrussi 1970 - Raymond Latarjet 1969 - Jean Brachet 1968 - François Gros 1967 - Marshall Nirenberg 1966 - Marianne Grunberg-Manago 1965 - Honor Bridget Fell 1964 - André Lwoff 1963 - Erwin Chargaff 1962 - François Jacob and Jacques Monod 1961 - Francis Crick
See also
List of biology awards
External links Institut de France, Académie des Sciences - Official Site List of Laureates since 1961 (retrieved March 20, 2011)