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The Francqui Prize is a prestigious Belgian scholarly and scientific prize named after Émile Francqui. Normally annually since 1933, the Francqui Foundation awards it in recognition of the achievements of a scholar or scientist, who at the start of the year still had to be under 50. It currently represents a sum of 250,000 Euros and is awarded in the following three-year rotation of subjects: exact sciences, social sciences or humanities, and biological or medical sciences. Proposed candidates must be associated with a Belgian academic institution, in the case of a foreigner for at least ten years. The recipient is selected by a jury of eight to 14 members, none of whom may be associated with a Belgian institution. The members of the international jury vote by secret letter, and the laureate they recommend must be supported by two thirds of the assembled directors of the foundation (with a quorum of 12) or no prize would be awarded that year. The prize is meant to encourage the further work of the young laureate, rather than crown the latter's career. Recipients are asked to organise an international colloquium in the appropriate discipline the same year that he is awarded the prize, which usually leads to an international publication which enables the quality of Belgian university research to be more widely appreciated.
== Laureates of the Francqui Prize == 1933: Henri Pirenne 1934: Georges Lemaître 1936: Franz Cumont 1938: Jacques Errera 1940: Pierre Nolf 1946: François-L. Ganshof 1946: Frans-H. van den Dungen 1946: Marcel Florkin 1948: Léon H. Dupriez 1948: Marc de Hemptinne 1948: Zénon-M. Bacq 1948: Pol Swings 1948: Jean Brachet 1949: Léon Rosenfeld 1950: Paul Harsin 1951: Henri Koch 1952: Florent Bureau 1953: Claire Preaux 1953: Etienne Lamotte 1954: Raymond Jeener 1955: Ilya Prigogine (Nobel Prize Chemistry 1977) 1956: Louis Remacle 1957: Lucien Massart 1958: Léon Van Hove 1959: Gérard Garitte 1960: Christian de Duve (Nobel Prize Medicine 1974) 1961: Adolphe Van Tiggelen 1961: Jules Duchesne 1962: Chaïm Perelman 1963: Hubert Chantrenne 1964: Paul Ledoux 1965: Roland Mortier 1966: Henri G. Hers 1967: José J. Fripiat 1968: Jules Horrent 1969: Isidoor Leusen 1970: Radu Balescu 1971: Georges Thines 1972: Jean-Edouard Desmedt 1973: Pierre Macq 1974: Raoul van Caenegem 1975: René Thomas 1976: Walter Fiers 1977: Jacques Taminiaux 1978: Jacques Nihoul 1979: Jozef Schell 1980: Jozef IJsewijn 1981: André Trouet 1982: François Englert (Nobel Prize Physics 2013) 1983: Alexis Jacquemin 1984: Désiré Collen 1985: Amand Lucas 1986: Marc Wilmet 1987: Jacques Urbain 1988: Pierre van Moerbeke 1989: Pierre Pestieau 1990: Thierry Boon 1991: Jean-Marie Andre 1992: Géry van Outryve d'Ydewalle 1993: Gilbert Vassart 1994: Eric G. Derouane 1995: Claude d'Aspremont Lynden 1996: Etienne Pays 1997: Jean-Luc Brédas 1998: Mathias Dewatripont 1999: Marc Parmentier 2000: Marc Henneaux 2000: Eric Remacle and Paul Magnette (Exceptional Francqui Prize for European Research) 2001: Philippe Van Parijs 2002: Peter Carmeliet 2003: Michel Van Den Bergh 2004: Marie-Claire Foblets 2005: Dirk Inzé 2006: Pierre Gaspard 2007: François de Callataÿ 2008: Michel A. J. Georges 2009: Eric Lambin 2010: François Maniquet 2011: Pierre Vanderhaegen 2012: Conny Aerts 2013: Olivier De Schutter 2014: Bart Lambrecht 2015: Stefaan Vaes 2016: Barbara Baert 2017: Steven Laureys 2018: Frank Verstraete 2019: Laurens Cherchye, Bram De Rock and Frederic Vermeulen 2020: Cédric Blanpain + Bart Loeys 2021: Michaël Gillon 2022: Veerle Rots 2023: Sarah-Maria Fendt and Philippe Lemey 2024: Veronique Van Speybroeck 2025: Ine Van Hoyweghen
== See also == University Foundation Belgian American Educational Foundation (BAEF) List of general science and technology awards List of social sciences awards
== References ==
== External links == Francqui foundation Laureates of the Francqui Prize Archived 2017-04-09 at the Wayback Machine (in French)