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Scientific award of the Spanish Royal Academy of Sciences
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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"Los biólogos españoles - Joaquín María de Castellarnau y Lleopart (1848-1943)" . www.biologia-en-internet.com (in European Spanish). Retrieved 22 November 2017 .
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"Don Juan Carlos entrega la Medalla Echegaray a la "ejemplar" Margarita Salas" (in Spanish). eldiario.es. 21 November 2017. Retrieved 22 November 2017 .
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"Muere Margarita Salas, una de las grandes científicas españolas y referente feminista" . BBC (in Spanish). 8 November 2019. Retrieved 9 January 2023 .
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"Mariano Barbacid, Medalla Echegaray 2018" . Archived from
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"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 .
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"José Antonio Carrillo de la Plata is awarded the Echegaray Medal 2022" . eurasc.eu . Retrieved 2023-01-09 .