page_title: Niels Bohr Institute
section_title: Medal of Honour
hierarchical_section_title: Niels Bohr Institute / Medal of Honour
caption_attribution_description: English: created by sculptor Rikke Raben for Niels Bohr Institute photo: Niels Bohr Institute/ Ola Jonsen
context_page_description: The Niels Bohr Institute is a research institute of the University of Copenhagen. The research of the institute spans astronomy, geophysics, nanotechnology, particle physics, quantum mechanics and biophysics.
context_section_description: in 2010, the year of the 125th anniversary of the birth of Niels Bohr, the Institute established the Niels Bohr Institute Medal of Honour. It is an annual award for "a particularly outstanding researcher who is working in the spirit of Niels Bohr: International cooperation and the exchange of knowledge".
  The medal is made by Danish sculptor Rikke Raben for the Niels Bohr Institute. On the front is a portrait of Niels Bohr, the atom sign and stars. The illustration on the back is inspired by a quote from Bohr: What is it that we human beings ultimately depend on? We depend on our words. We are suspended in language. Our task is to communicate experience and ideas to others. 
  On the back of the medal: Unity of Knowledge – the title of a lecture given by Bohr at Columbia University in 1954. Nosce te ipsum is Latin and means "know thyself". This quote originates from the Oracle of Delphi, in the Temple of Apollo in Greece.
  Recipients:
  2010: Leo Kadanoff
  2011: Andre Geim
  2012: Juan Ignacio Cirac Sasturain
  2013: Fabiola Gianotti
  2014: Glaciologist Jérôme Chappellaz
  2015: Astrophysicist Brian Schmidt
  2016: Gerard 't Hooft
caption: Niels Bohr Institute Medal-R
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