Acharius Medal
The Acharius Medal is awarded for lifetime achievement in lichenology.[1]
The first Acharius Medal was made by the Royal Swedish Mint for the Royal Swedish Academy of Science in 1846, although the medal's original purpose has not been recorded.[2] In its 1990 meeting at Regensburg, the International Association for Lichenology (IAL) resolved that it would simultaneously honor professional achievement, and commemorate Erik Acharius (recognized as the "Father of Lichenology"), by presenting a medal in his name.[3][4]
Since the Swedish Mint still had the dies for the 1846 medal, the IAL arranged for new medals to be made.[5] The first of the new medals were awarded in that same year (1992) at the association's congress in Båstad, Sweden.[6]
The medal
The medal is silver, with Acharius' profile on one side and the recipient's name on the other.
Recipients
2014:
- Peter Crittenden
- Pier-Luigi Nimis
2012:
- Ana Crespo
- Leif Tibell
2010:
- Brian J. Coppins
- Thomas Hawkes Nash
2008:
- David J. Galloway
- Hannes Hertel
- Rosmarie Honegger
2006:
- Mark R. D. Seaward
2004:
- John A. Elix
- Ludger Kappen
- Marie-Agnès Letrouit-Galinou
2003
- David C. Smith
2002:
2000:
- Teuvo Ahti
- Georges Clauzade
- Nina Golubkova
1996:
- Vernon Ahmadjian
- Siegfried Huneck
- Christian Leuckert
1994:
- Ernie Brodo
- Margalith Galun
- Syo Kurokawa
- Elisabeth Tschermak-Woess
1992:
- Dharani Awasti
- Chicita F. Culberson
- William L. Culberson
- Gunnar Degelius
- Aino Henssen
- James Peter
- Hildur Krog
- Otto Ludwig Lange
- Josef Poelt
- Rolf Santesson
- John W. Thomson
- Hans Trass
- Antonin Vězda
References
- ↑ "Plant Science Bulletin, Volume 39, Issue 1, 1993".
- ↑ "International Association for Lichenology (IAL)".
- ↑ http://www-hotel.uu.se/evolmuseum/fytotek/acharius.html
- ↑ International Lichenological Newsletter, volume 25, number 3 (December 1992), pp 12-13
- ↑ http://www.lichenology.org/Publications/ILN/ILN_25_3.pdf
- ↑ Ingvar Kärnefelt, David J. Galloway, Arne Thell (2007). Lichenological contributions in honour of David Galloway. Cramer in der Gebrüder Borntraeger Verlagsbuchhandlung. p. 103. ISBN 3-443-58074-2.