A.O. Kovalevsky Medal

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 Kovalevsky. Since 2002, only one medal has been awarded annually (excepting a joint award in 2014).{Mikhailov and Gilbert, 2002}

Recipients

2015 Professor Frederik Nijhout, Department of Biology, Duke University, Durham NC (USA)
2014 Research Professor Linda Zimmerman Holland and Professor Nicholas Drew Holland (jointly), Marine Biology Research Division, Scripps Institution of Oceanography, University of California at San Diego (USA)
2013 Professor Denis Duboule, École polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne, University of Geneva (Switzerland)
2012 William R. Jeffery, Professor of Biology, University of Maryland (USA)
2011 Professor Detlev Arendt, European Molecular Biology Laboratory, Heidelberg (Germany).
2010 Professor Shigeru Kuratani from the Center for Developmental Biology, Kobe (Japan)
2009 Marc Q. Martindale, Professor of Organismal Biology and Director of Kewalo Marine Laboratory, University of Hawaii (USA)
2008 Dr. Sean B. Carroll, Professor of Molecular Biology and Genetics, University of Wisconsin (USA)
2007 Michael Edwin Akam, Professor of Zoology and Director, University Museum of Zoology, Cambridge (United Kingdom)
2006 Peter William Harold Holland, Department of Zoology, Oxford (United Kingdom)
2005 Noriyuki Satoh, Department of Zoology, Faculty of Science,. Kyoto University (Japan)
2004 Scott Gilbert, Howard A. Schneiderman Professor of Biology, Swarthmore College (USA)
2003 Walter Jakob Gehring, Professor, Biozentrum, University of Basel (Switzerland)
2002 Eric H. Davidson, Norman Chandler Professor of Cell Biology. California Institute of Technology, Pasadena (USA)

The 2001 medal was awarded to

Donald Thomas Anderson (Australia), comparative anatomy and embryology
Gary Freeman (USA), embryological grounds of animal evolution
Brian Hall (Canada), synthesis of embryology and evolution
Olga Mikhailovna Ivanova-Kazas, Professor of St. Petersburg State University (Russia)
Klaus Nielsen (Denmark), development of comparative morphology and phylogeny of multi-celled organisms
Rudolf Raff (USA), the author of several books on embryology and evolution
Rupert Riedl (Austria), Honorary Professor of Vienna University
Klaus Sander (Germany), Honorary Professor of Freiburg University

References

Mikhilov, A. T. and Gilbert, S. F. 2002. From development to evolution: the re-establishment of the "Alexander Kowalevsky Medal." Int. J. Dev. Biol. 46: 693-698.

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