The CNRS Silver Medal is a scientific award given every year to about fifteen researchers by the
French National Centre for Scientific Research
The French National Centre for Scientific Research (, , CNRS) is the French state research organisation and is the largest fundamental science agency in Europe.
In 2016, it employed 31,637 staff, including 11,137 tenured researchers, 13,415 engi ...
(CNRS). It is awarded to a researcher for "the originality, quality and importance of their work, recognised on a national and international level".
It is part of the "CNRS Talents" medals, along with the CNRS gold medal, which rewards a whole scientific career, the CNRS bronze medal, which rewards young researchers, the Innovation medal, which honours remarkable work in the technological, therapeutic, economic or societal fields, and the CNRS Crystal medal, which rewards research support staff.
Notable recipients
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Gabriel Peyré
Gabriel Peyré (born 1979) is a French mathematician. Most of his work lies in the field of transportation theory. He is a CNRS senior researcher and a Professor in the mathematics and applications department of the École normale supérieure ...
(mathematics) (2021)
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Marie-Hélène Verlhac
Marie-Hélène Verlhac is a French cellular biologist, specialising in the final stages of oocyte development. She was the recipient of the French National Centre for Scientific Research's (CNRS) Silver Medal in 2021.
Verlhac has been the direc ...
(biology) (2021)
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Claire Mathieu
Claire Mathieu (formerly Kenyon, born 1965) is a French computer scientist and mathematician, known for her research on approximation algorithms, online algorithms, and auction theory. She works as a director of research at the Centre national ...
(computer science) (2019)
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Margaret Maruani
Margaret Rose Maruani Rey (25 February 1954 – 4 August 2022)
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Marie-Françoise André
Marie-Françoise André (born 1953 in Paris) is a French geographer and geomorphologist specialising in landscape architecture in the polar regions (Labrador, Spitsbergen, Lapland, Antarctica). She also researched stone erosion in the context o ...
(2011)
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Anca Muscholl
Anca Muscholl (born 1967) is a Romanian-German mathematical logician and theoretical computer scientist known for her work on formal verification, model checking, and two-variable logic. She is a researcher at the (LaBRI), a professor at the ...
(mathematics) (2010)
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Edith Heard
Edith Heard (born 1965) is a British-French researcher in epigenetics who has been serving as the Director General of the European Molecular Biology Laboratory (EMBL) since January 2019. She is also Professor at the Collège de France, holding ...
(biology) (2008)
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Marc Fontecave
Marc Fontecave (born 27 September 1956) is a French chemist. An international specialist in bioinorganic chemistry, he currently teaches at the Collège de France in Paris, where he heads the Laboratory of Chemistry of Biological Processes.
Bi ...
(2004)
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Leanne Pitchford
Leanne Carolyn Pitchford (born 1950) is a retired physicist known for her work on the numerical modeling of low-temperature plasma, and in the LXCat project for open exchange of low-temperature plasma data. Educated in the US, she worked in Fran ...
Guy Joulin
Guy Joulin is a French scientist at Aix-Marseille University who works in the field of combustion.
Biography
Guy Joulin obtained his PhD degree from University of Poitiers in 1979 under the supervision of Paul Clavin.
Joulin is the re ...