The Echegaray Medal (Spanish: La Medalla Echegaray) is the highest scientific award granted by the Spanish Royal Academy of Sciences.[1] The award was created by Alfonso XIII at the request of Santiago Ramón y Cajal[2] after the award of the Nobel Prize to José Echegaray and is awarded in recognition of an exceptional scientific career.

The first time it was granted was in 1907 to the eponymous José Echegaray. More than a hundred years after the award was created, the first woman to receive the Echegaray Medal was Margarita Salas in 2016 during a ceremony which was presided over by Juan Carlos I and Queen Sofía of Spain.[3]

Past recipients

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References

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  3. ^ "ENTREGA DE LA "MEDALLA ECHEGARAY 2016"". casareal.es (in European Spanish). Retrieved 9 January 2023.
  4. ^ "Medalla a Echegaray". Heraldo de Madrid (in Spanish) (6045): 1. 16 June 2017. Retrieved 5 October 2018.
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  6. ^ "Relación de personalidades distinguidas por la RAC con las medallas Echegaray y Ramón y Cajal" (PDF).
  7. ^ "Un Premio Y Un Homenaje". Madrid Científico (877). auto-translated by Module:CS1 translator -->
  8. ^ Kox, A. J. (18 September 2008). The Scientific Correspondence of H.A. Lorentz (in German). Springer Science & Business Media. ISBN 9780387779409. Retrieved 22 November 2017.
  9. ^ Real Academia de Ciencias Exactas, Físicas y Naturales (25 May 2016). "Margarita Salas Falgueras, Medalla Echegaray 2016 de la Real Academia de Ciencias". www.rac.es (in Spanish). Archived from the original on 29 November 2017. Retrieved 22 November 2017.
  10. ^ "Los biólogos españoles - Joaquín María de Castellarnau y Lleopart (1848-1943)". www.biologia-en-internet.com (in European Spanish). Retrieved 22 November 2017.
  11. ^ "Don Juan Carlos entrega la Medalla Echegaray a la "ejemplar" Margarita Salas" (in Spanish). eldiario.es. 21 November 2017. Retrieved 22 November 2017.
  12. ^ "Muere Margarita Salas, una de las grandes científicas españolas y referente feminista". BBC (in Spanish). 8 November 2019. Retrieved 9 January 2023.
  13. ^ "Mariano Barbacid, Medalla Echegaray 2018". Archived from the original on 16 August 2018. Retrieved 16 August 2018.
  14. ^ "Premios - Real Academía de Ciencias Exactas, Físicas y Naturales". rac.es.
  15. ^ "José Antonio Carrillo de la Plata recibe la Medalla Echegaray 2022 - Noticias - Real Academía de Ciencias Exactas, Físicas y Naturales". rac.es. Retrieved 2022-12-22.
  16. ^ "José Antonio Carrillo de la Plata is awarded the Echegaray Medal 2022". eurasc.eu. Retrieved 2023-01-09.