# Cothenius Medal awardees, 1864–1953

Cothenius Medal awardees, 1864–1953 is a list of Cothenius Medal awardees for the period between 1864 and 1953.

## List of Laureates

| Year | Laureate | Discipline | City |
| 1953 | Karl-Wilhelm Jötten (1886–1958) | Hygiene | Münster |
| 1944 | Hans Winkler (1877–1945) | Botany | Hamburg |
| 1943 | Otto Hahn (1878–1968) | Chemistry | |
| 1942 | Hermann Rein (1898–1968) | Physiology | Göttingen |
| 1941 | Georg Sticker (1860–1960) | History of medicine | Würzburg |
| 1939 | Alfred Vogt (1879–1943) | Ophthalmology | Zürich |
| 1938 | Erich Tschermak von Seysenegg (1871–1962) | Agricultural sciences | Vienna |
| 1937 | Armin Tschermak von Seysenegg (1870–1952) | Physiology | Prague |
| 1937 | Dante de Blasi (1873–1956) | Hygiene | Rome |
| 1937 | Eugen Fischer (1874–1967) | Anthropology | |
| 1937 | Franz Volhard (1872–1950) | Internal Medicine | Frankfurt |
| 1937 | George Barger (1878–1938) | Biochemistry | Edinburgh |
| 1937 | Max Le Blanc (1865–1943) | Physical Chemistry | Leipzig |
| 1937 | Paul Uhlenhuth (1870–1957) | Hygiene | Freiburg |
| 1937 | Richard Kuhn (1900–1957) | Chemistry | Heidelberg |
| 1937 | Robert von Ostertag (1864–1940) | Veterinary Medicine | Tübingen |
| 1935 | Hans Spemann (1869–1941) | Zoology | Freiburg |
| 1935 | Otfrid Foerster (1873–1941) | Neurology | Breslau |
| 1934 | Johannes Weigelt (1890–1948) | Geology/Paleontology | |
| 1925 | Albrecht Penck (1858–1945) | Geography | Berlin |
| 1925 | Hugo Eckener (1868–1954) | Physics | Friedrichshafen |
| 1925 | Sven Hedin (1865–1952) | Geography/Ethnology | |
| 1922 | Albert Wangerin (1844–1933) | Mathematics | Halle |
| 1916 | Wilhelm von Waldeyer-Hartz (1836–1921) | Anatomy | Berlin |
| 1914 | Emil Abderhalden (1877–1950) | Physiology | |
| 1913 | Leonhard Schultze-Jena (1872–1955) | Geography | Marburg |
| 1912 | Robert Tigerstedt (1853–1923) | Physiology | Helsinki |
| 1911 | Carl Chun (1852–1914) | Zoology | Leipzig |
| 1910 | Wilhelm Pfeffer (1845–1920) | Botany | Leipzig |
| 1909 | Viktor Uhlig (1857–1911) | Geology | Vienna |
| 1908 | Daniel Vorländer (1867–1911) | Chemistry | Halle |
| 1907 | Wilhelm von Bezold (1837–1907) | Meteorology | Berlin |
| 1906 | David Hilbert (1862–1943) | Mathematics | Göttingen |
| 1906 | Georg von Neumayer (1826–1909) | Geophysics | Neustadt, Hardt |
| 1905 | Ernst Viktor von Leyden (1832–1910) | Internal Medicine | Berlin |
| 1904 | Alexander Supan (1847–1920) | Geography | Gotha |
| 1903 | Ivan Petrovic Pavlov (1849–1936) | Physiology | St. Petersburg |
| 1901 | Carl Gegenbaur (1826–1903) | Anatomy | Heidelberg |
| 1901 | Rudolf Virchow (1821–1902) | Anatomy | Berlin |
| 1900 | Joseph Dalton Hooker (1817–1911) | Botany | London |
| 1899 | Ferdinand Zirkel (1838–1912) | Mineralogy | Leipzig |
| 1898 | Emil Fischer (1852–1919) | Chemistry | Berlin |
| 1897 | Albert von Kölliker (1817–1905) | Anatomy | Würzburg |
| 1897 | Georg Quincke (1834–1924) | Physics | Heidelberg |
| 1896 | Robert von Sterneck (1839–1910) | Geodesy | Vienna |
| 1895 | Alphonse Laveran (1845–1922) | Tropical medicine | Paris |
| 1895 | Heinrich Ernst Beyrich (1845–1896) | Geology | Berlin |
| 1894 | Hanns Bruno Geinitz (1814–1900) | Geology | Dresden |
| 1894 | Karl von den Steinen (1855–1929) | Ethnology | Neubabelsberg |
| 1893 | Adolf Eugen Fick (1829–1901) | Psychology | Würzburg |
| 1892 | Gustav Retzius (1842–1919) | Anatomy | Stockholm |
| 1891 | Melchior Treub (1851–1910) | Botany | Buitenzorg |
| 1890 | Dionýz Štúr (1827–1893) | Geology | Vienna |
| 1889 | Otto Wallach (1847–1931) | Chemistry | Göttingen |
| 1888 | Julius von Hann (1839–1921) | Meteorology | Vienna |
| 1887 | Karl Weierstrass (1815–1897) | Mathematics | Berlin |
| 1886 | Adolf Kussmaul (1822–1902) | Internal Medicine | Strasbourg |
| 1885 | Ludwig Lindenschmit (1809–1893) | Anthropology | Mainz |
| 1884 | Rudolf Heidenhain (1834–1897) | PsychologyLindenschmit | Breslau |
| 1883 | Franz Eilhard Schulze (1840–1921) | Zoology | Graz |
| 1882 | Nathanael Pringsheim (1823–1894) | Botany | Berlin |
| 1881 | Joachim Barrande (1799–1883) | Palaeontology | Prague |
| 1880 | August Michaelis (1847–1916) | Chemistry | Karlsruhe |
| 1880 | Friedrich Wöhler (1800–1882) | Chemistry | Gottigen |
| 1880 | Heinrich Robert Göppert (1838–1882) | Botany | Breslau |
| 1879 | Wilhelm Weber (1804–1891) | Physics | Göttingen |
| 1878 | Hugo Gyldén (1841–1896) | Astronomy | Stockholm |
| 1877 | Joseph Lister (1827–1912) | Surgery | Edinburgh |
| 1876 | Alexander Ecker (1816–1887) | Anatomy | Freiburg |
| 1876 | August Weismann (1834–1914) | Zoology | Freiburg |
| 1876 | August Wilhelm Eichler (1839–1887) | Botany | Kiel |
| 1876 | Carl Ludwig (1816–1895) | Psychology | Leipzig |
| 1876 | Ferdinand Tiemann (1848–1899) | Chemistry | Berlin |
| 1876 | Fridolin von Sandberger (1826–1898) | Palaeontology | Würzburg |
| 1876 | Giovanni Virginio Schiaparelli (1835–1910) | Astronomy | Milan |
| 1876 | Gustav Robert Kirchhoff (1824–1887) | Physics | Berlin |
| 1867 | Wilhelm Haarmann (1847–1931) | Chemistry | Holzminden |
| 1864 | Ernst Haeckel (1834–1919) | Zoology | Jena |