Hevesy Medal Award

The George Hevesy Medal Award (HMA) is the premier international award of excellence in radioanalytical and nuclear chemistry. It is awarded to an individual in recognition of excellence through outstanding, sustained career achievements in the fields of pure as well as applied nuclear and radiochemistry, particularly applications to nuclear analytical chemistry. Established originally in 1968 by the Journal of Radioanalytical and Nuclear Chemistry (JRNC), the George Hevesy Medal Award has been given 19 times during 1968-86. This Award has been reactivated in 2000. It is sponsored by JRNC and adjudicated by the International Committee on Activation Analysis/Modern Trends in Activation Analysis (ICAA/MTAA). The Award has no monetary value. The George Hevesy Medal Award comprises an engraved bronze medal and an ornamental scroll.

The winner of the Hevesy Medal Award 2026 is prof. Jerzy Wojciech MIETELSKI

The 2026 George Hevesy Medal has been awarded to Professor Jerzy Wojtek Mietelski, Head of the Nuclear Physics Department at the Institute of Nuclear Physics, Kraków, Poland, in recognition of his outstanding and sustained contributions to radioanalytical and nuclear chemistry, nuclear measurement techniques, and radioecology. Details about Prof. Mietelski and the Award can be found here.

The names (year) of the former awardees are:

W. Wayne MEINKE (1968), Albert A. SMALES (1969), Ivan Pavlovich ALIMARIN (1970), Philippe ALBERT and Julien HOSTE (1972), Tibor BRAUN and Juraj TÖLGYESSY (1975), Francesco GIRARDI (1976), Saadia AMIEL and Richard E. WAINERDI (1977), Robert E. JERVIS (1978), Vincent P. GUINN (1979), William S. LYON and Max PEISACH (1981), Edward V. SAYRE and Garman HARBOTTLE (1983), Georges AMSEL (1984), Nobuo SUZUKI (1985), Emile A. SCHWEIKERT (1986), Frans DE CORTE (2000), Amares CHATT and Eiliv STEINNES (2001), Enrico SABBIONI (2002), Jeroen J.M. DE GOEIJ (2003), Attila VÉRTES (2004), Nicholas M. SPYROU, Gregory CHOPPIN, Zhifang CHAI (2005), Jan KUCERA (2006), Robert R. GREENBERG (2007), Syed M. QAIM (2008), Richard M. LINDSTROM (2009), Darleane C. HOFFMAN (2010), Peter BODE (2011), Boris F. MYASOEDOV (2012), and Rajmund S. DYBCZYŃSKI (2013), Heino NITSCHE, Susanta LAHIRI and Kattesh V. KATTI (2015), Tomoko M. NAKANISHI (2016), Pavel P. POVINEC (2017), Rolf L. ZEISLER (2018), Xiaolin HOU (2019), Stefaan POMMÉ (2020), Vladimir KOLOTOV (2021), Frank RÖSCH (2022), Melissa A. DENECKE (2023), Elisabete A. de NADAI FERNANDES (2024), Steven BIEGALSKI (2025)