Honours
Apart from being a fellow, excellence can also be rewarded by receiving one of the following honours:
- honorary membership
- Cothenius Medal (first awarded in 1792)
- Carus Medal (first awarded in 1896)
- Schleiden Medal (first awarded in 1955)
- Mendel Medal (since 1965, in honour of Gregor Mendel)
- Darwin Badge (only awarded in 1959 - the 100th anniversary of the publication of The origin of species)
- Leopoldina Prize for Junior Scientists
- Georg Uschmann Prize for History of Science
- Leopoldina Research Prize (since 2001, funded by the Commerzbank Foundation)
- Thieme Prize of the Leopoldina for Medicine
- Medal of Merit (awarded by the Presidium only on special occasions)
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Famous quotes containing the word honours:
“Come hither, all ye empty things,
Ye bubbles rais’d by breath of Kings;
Who float upon the tide of state,
Come hither, and behold your fate.
Let pride be taught by this rebuke,
How very mean a thing’s a Duke;
From all his ill-got honours flung,
Turn’d to that dirt from whence he sprung.”
—Jonathan Swift (1667–1745)
“If a novel reveals true and vivid relationships, it is a moral work, no matter what the relationships consist in. If the novelist honours the relationship in itself, it will be a great novel.”
—D.H. (David Herbert)
“Vain men delight in telling what Honours have been done them, what great Company they have kept, and the like; by which they plainly confess, that these Honours were more than their Due, and such as their Friends would not believe if they had not been told: Whereas a Man truly proud, thinks the greatest Honours below his Merit, and consequently scorns to boast. I therefore deliver it as a Maxim that whoever desires the Character of a proud Man, ought to conceal his Vanity.”
—Jonathan Swift (1667–1745)