The A.O. Kovalevsky Medal, awarded annually by the St. Petersburg Society of Naturalists for extraordinary achievements in evolutionary developmental biology and comparative zoology, is named after the noted Russian embryologist Alexander Onufrievich Kovalevsky. Since 2002, only one medal has been awarded annually (excepting a joint award in 2014).

Recipients

*2024 Allessandro Minelli, Professor,

Padua University The University of Padua (, UNIPD) is an Italian public research university in Padua, Italy. It was founded in 1222 by a group of students and teachers from the University of Bologna, who previously settled in Vicenza; thus, it is the second-oldest ...

, Padova, (Italy) *2023 Veronica Hinman, Distinguished Professor of Life Sciences,

Carnegie Mellon University Carnegie Mellon University (CMU) is a private research university in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States. The institution was established in 1900 by Andrew Carnegie as the Carnegie Technical Schools. In 1912, it became the Carnegie Institu ...

, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania (USA) *2021 Nipam Patel,

University of Chicago The University of Chicago (UChicago, Chicago, or UChi) is a Private university, private research university in Chicago, Illinois, United States. Its main campus is in the Hyde Park, Chicago, Hyde Park neighborhood on Chicago's South Side, Chic ...

and Director of the

Marine Biological Laboratory The Marine Biological Laboratory (MBL) is an international center for research and education in biological and environmental science. Founded in Woods Hole, Massachusetts, in 1888, the MBL is a private, nonprofit institution that was independent ...

(USA) *2020

Edward M. De Robertis Edward Michael De Robertis (born June 6, 1947) is an American embryologist and Professor at the University of California, Los Angeles. His work has contributed to the finding of conserved molecular processes of embryonic inductions that result in ...

, Department of Biological Chemistry,

University of California at Los Angeles The University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) is a public land-grant research university in Los Angeles, California, United States. Its academic roots were established in 1881 as a normal school then known as the southern branch of the Ca ...

(USA) *2019

Mary E. Rice Mary Esther Rice (August 3, 1926 – April 29, 2021) was an American invertebrate zoologist specializing in systematics, evolution and the development of marine invertebrates. She worked at the Smithsonian Institution as a curator, educator, res ...

, Director of the

Smithsonian Marine Station at Fort Pierce The Smithsonian Marine Station at Fort Pierce is a research center that specializes in Floridian marine ecosystems and lifeforms. The research is focused mostly on the Indian River Lagoon The Indian River Lagoon is a grouping of three lagoons: ...

Florida, (USA) *2018 Andreas Hejnol, Professor of Molecular Biology, University of Bergen (Norway) *2017 , Department of Invertebrate Zoology, Lomonosov Moscow State University, Moscow (Russia) *2016

Günter Wagner Gunter or Günter may refer to: * Gunter rig, a type of sailing rig, especially in small boats * Gunter Annex, Alabama, a United States Air Force installation * Gunter, Texas, city in the United States * the former German name of the village of ...

, Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Yale University, New Haven CT (USA) *2015 Frederik Nijhout, Department of Biology,

Duke University Duke University is a Private university, private research university in Durham, North Carolina, United States. Founded by Methodists and Quakers in the present-day city of Trinity, North Carolina, Trinity in 1838, the school moved to Durham in 1 ...

, Durham NC (USA) *2014 Linda Zimmerman Holland and Nicholas Drew Holland (jointly), Marine Biology Research Division,

Scripps Institution of Oceanography Scripps Institution of Oceanography (SIO) is the center for oceanography and Earth science at the University of California, San Diego. Its main campus is located in La Jolla, with additional facilities in Point Loma. Founded in 1903 and incorpo ...

University of California at San Diego The University of California, San Diego (UC San Diego in communications material, formerly and colloquially UCSD) is a public land-grant research university in San Diego, California, United States. Established in 1960 near the pre-existing Sc ...

(USA). *2013 Denis Duboule,

École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne The École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (, EPFL) is a public university, public research university in Lausanne, Switzerland, founded in 1969 with the mission to "train talented engineers in Switzerland". Like its sister institution E ...

(EPFL),

University of Geneva The University of Geneva (French: ''Université de Genève'') is a public university, public research university located in Geneva, Switzerland. It was founded in 1559 by French theologian John Calvin as a Theology, theological seminary. It rema ...

(Switzerland) *2012 William R. Jeffery, Professor of Biology,

University of Maryland The University of Maryland, College Park (University of Maryland, UMD, or simply Maryland) is a public land-grant research university in College Park, Maryland, United States. Founded in 1856, UMD is the flagship institution of the Univ ...

(USA) *2011

Detlev Arendt Detlev is a German given name. It is a spelling variant of Detlef. People with this name Notable people with this name include: *Detlev Blanke (1941–2016), interlinguistics lecturer at Humboldt University of Berlin *Detlev Bronk (1897–1975) ...

, European Molecular Biology Laboratory, Heidelberg (Germany). *2010

Shigeru Kuratani Shigeru (written: , , , in hiragana or in katakana) is a masculine Japanese given name. Notable people with the name include: *, a Japanese architect *, a Japanese voice actor *, Japanese karateka *, Japanese sport wrestler *, Japanese socialist ...

from the Center for Developmental Biology, Kobe (Japan) *2009 Mark Q. Martindale, Professor of Organismal Biology and Director of Kewalo Marine Laboratory,

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(USA) *2008 Sean B. Carroll, Professor of Molecular Biology and Genetics,

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(USA) *2007 Michael Edwin Akam, Professor of Zoology and Director, University Museum of Zoology, Cambridge (United Kingdom) *2006 Peter Holland, Department of Zoology, Oxford (United Kingdom) *2005 Noriyuki Satoh, Department of Zoology, Faculty of Science,

Kyoto University , or , is a National university, national research university in Kyoto, Japan. Founded in 1897, it is one of the former Imperial Universities and the second oldest university in Japan. The university has ten undergraduate faculties, eighteen gra ...

(Japan) *2004 Scott Gilbert, Howard A. Schneiderman Professor of Biology,

Swarthmore College Swarthmore College ( , ) is a Private college, private Liberal arts colleges in the United States, liberal arts college in Swarthmore, Pennsylvania, United States. Founded in 1864, with its first classes held in 1869, Swarthmore is one of the e ...

(USA) *2003

Walter Jakob Gehring Walter Jakob Gehring (20 March 1939 – 29 May 2014) was a Swiss developmental biologist who was a professor at the Biozentrum Basel of the University of Basel, Switzerland. He obtained his PhD at the University of Zurich in 1965 and after two ...

, Professor, Biozentrum,

University of Basel The University of Basel (Latin: ''Universitas Basiliensis''; German: ''Universität Basel'') is a public research university in Basel, Switzerland. Founded on 4 April 1460, it is Switzerland's oldest university and among the world's oldest univ ...

(Switzerland) *2002 Eric H. Davidson, Norman Chandler Professor of Cell Biology.

California Institute of Technology The California Institute of Technology (branded as Caltech) is a private research university in Pasadena, California, United States. The university is responsible for many modern scientific advancements and is among a small group of institutes ...

, Pasadena (USA) The 2001 medal was awarded to *Donald Thomas Anderson (Australia), comparative anatomy and embryology * Gary Freeman (USA), Professor of Zoology University of Texas Austin, embryological grounds of animal evolution * Brian Hall (Canada), Professor of Biology, Dalhousie University, Halifax, Canada; synthesis of embryology and evolution * Olga Mikhailovna Ivanova-Kazas, Professor of St. Petersburg State University (Russia) *

Claus Nielsen Claus Illemann Nielsen (born 13 January 1964), known as Claus Nielsen, is a Danish former football player in the forward position. He spent the bulk of his career with Brøndby, but also played for the Greek club Panathinaikos and the Dutch c ...

(Denmark), development of comparative morphology and phylogeny of multi-celled organisms *

Rudolf Raff Rudolf Albert Raff (November 10, 1941 – January 5, 2019) was an American biologist, and the James H. Rudy Professor of Biology at Indiana University. He was renowned for his research in, and promotion of, evolutionary developmental biology. Add ...

(USA), James H. Rudy Professor of Biology, at Indiana University, and the author of several books on embryology and evolution *

Rupert Riedl Rupert Riedl (22 February 1925 – 18 September 2005) was an Austrian zoologist. Biography Riedl was a scientist with broad interests, whose influence in epistemology grounded in evolutionary theory was notable, although less in English-speakin ...

(Austria), Professor of Zoology at the

Vienna University The University of Vienna (, ) is a public university, public research university in Vienna, Austria. Founded by Rudolf IV, Duke of Austria, Duke Rudolph IV in 1365, it is the oldest university in the German-speaking world and among the largest ...

, Austria * Klaus Sander (Germany), Professor of Zoology at

Freiburg University The University of Freiburg (colloquially ), officially the Albert Ludwig University of Freiburg (), is a public university, public research university located in Freiburg im Breisgau, Baden-Württemberg, Germany. The university was founded in 1 ...

, Germany

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Denis Duboule is awarded the Alexander Kowalevsky medal , Section of Biology

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