Royal Society of Canada - Medals and Awards

Medals and Awards

The RSC recognizes outstanding achievements in research and innovation by awarding medals and prizes. Twenty Society awards are offered on an annual or biennial basis and consist of either medals or certificates, some of them with cash prizes. These awards are as follows:

• Award in Gender Studies to recognize significant contributions by a Canadian scholar in the humanities and social sciences to furthering our understanding of issues concerning gender
• Bancroft Award for publication, instruction, and research in the earth sciences that have conspicuously contributed to public understanding and appreciation of the subject
• Centenary Medal to honour individuals and organizations that have made outstanding contributions to the object of the RSC and to recognize links to international organizations
• Henry Marshall Tory Medal for outstanding research in a branch of astronomy, chemistry, mathematics, physics, or an allied science
• Innis Gérin Medal for a distinguished and sustained contribution to the literature of the social sciences including human geography and social psychology
• J.B. Tyrrell Historical Medal for outstanding work in the history of Canada
• John L. Synge Award for outstanding research in any of the branches of the mathematical sciences
• Lorne Pierce Medal for an achievement of special significance and conspicuous merit in imaginative or critical literature written in either English or French (critical literature dealing with Canadian subjects has priority over critical literature of equal merit that does not deal with Canadian subjects)
• Miroslaw Romanowski Medal for significant contributions to the resolution of scientific aspects of environmental problems or for important improvements to the quality of an ecosystem in all aspects – terrestrial, atmospheric and aqueous – brought about by scientific means
• Pierre Chauveau Medal for a distinguished contribution to knowledge in the humanities other than Canadian literature and Canadian history
• Rutherford Memorial Medal for outstanding research in chemistry
• Rutherford Memorial Medal for outstanding research in physics
• Sir John William Dawson Medal for important and sustained contributions in two domains of interest to RSC or in interdisciplinary research
• The Alice Wilson Award for outstanding academic qualifications of a woman who is entering a career in scholarship or research at the postdoctoral level
• The Flavelle Medal for an outstanding contribution to biological science during the preceding ten years or for significant additions to a previous outstanding contribution to biological science
• The McLaughlin Medal for important research of sustained excellence in any branch of medical sciences
• The McNeil Medal for outstanding ability to promote and communicate science to students and to the public within Canada
• Willet G. Miller Medal for outstanding research in any branch of the earth sciences
• The Konrad Adenauer Research Award for the promotion of academic collaboration between Canada and the Federal Republic of Germany, presented to honour the scholar’s entire academic record
• The EJLB-CIHR Michael Smith Chair in Neurosciences and Mental Health allows a Canadian university or health research institute to attract a leading scientist in the field of neurosciences and mental health to Canada. It is offered by the EJLB Foundation, the Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR), the CIHR Institute of Neurosciences, Mental Health and Addiction (INMHA) and the RSC.