{{Short description|Award for lifetime achievement in lichenology}} __NOTOC__ [[File:Acharius Medal 2008 DJ Galloway.jpg|thumb|right|Photo of the certificate accompanying Acharius Medal awarded to [[David J. Galloway]] in 2008]] The '''Acharius Medal''' is awarded by the [[International Association for Lichenology]] (IAL) for lifetime achievement in [[lichenology]].<ref name="IAL-AchariusMedal">{{cite web |title=Acharius Medal |url=https://ial-lichenology.org/awards/ |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220915200933/https://ial-lichenology.org/awards/ |archive-date=2022-09-15 |access-date=2024-05-27 |website=International Association of Lichenology}}</ref> The organization resolved at its 1990 meeting that it would simultaneously honor professional achievement and commemorate [[Erik Acharius]] (recognized as the "Father of Lichenology") by presenting a medal in his name.<ref name="Seaward1991">{{cite journal |last1=Seaward |first1=MRD |title=Meeting of IAL, 30 August 1990 |journal=International Lichenological Newsletter |date=1991 |volume=24 |issue=1 |page=12 |url=https://ial-lichenology.org/wp-content/uploads/ILN_24_1.pdf |access-date=3 November 2022}}</ref>
The first Acharius Medal was made in 1846 by the [[Myntverket|Royal Swedish Mint]] for the [[Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences]], although the original purpose for that medal is not known. Because the Swedish Mint still had the [[coin die|die]]s for the original medal, the IAL arranged for new medals to be made.<ref>{{cite newsletter |title=Council reports for the period 1987–1992 presented on the IAL General Meeting in Hemmeslöv near Båstad, Sweden, 3 September 1992: Secretary's report |url=http://www.lichenology.org/Publications/ILN/ILN_25_3.pdf |journal=International Lichenological Newsletter |volume=25 |issue=3 |page=63 |date=December 1992 |access-date=25 August 2022 |archive-date=4 March 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160304054142/http://www.lichenology.org/Publications/ILN/ILN_25_3.pdf |url-status=dead }}</ref> The first of the new medals were awarded in that same year (1992) at the association's congress in [[Båstad]], Sweden.<ref>{{cite book|page=103|title=Lichenological contributions in honour of David Galloway |author=Ingvar Kärnefelt |author2=David J. Galloway |author3=Arne Thell |publisher=Cramer in der Gebrüder Borntraeger Verlagsbuchhandlung |year=2007 |isbn=978-3-443-58074-2}}</ref>
==The medal== The medal is [[silver]], with Acharius' profile on one side and the recipient's name on the other.
== Recipients ==
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2024:
* [[Kansri Boonpragob]]
2021:
* [[Per Magnus Jørgensen]] * [[James D. Lawrey]]
2018: * [[William Alfred Weber]]
2016: * [[Thomas George Allan Green]] * [[Josef Hafellner]] * [[Bruce McCune]]
2014: * [[Peter Crittenden]] * [[Pier Luigi Nimis]]
2012: * [[Ana Crespo]] * [[Leif Tibell]]
2010: * [[Brian J. Coppins]] * [[Thomas Hawkes Nash]]
2008: * [[David J. Galloway]] * [[Hannes Hertel]] * [[Rosmarie Honegger]]
2006: * [[Mark R. D. Seaward]]
2004: * [[John Alan Elix|John A. Elix]] * [[Ludger Kappen]] * [[Marie-Agnès Letrouit-Galinou]]
2003 * [[David C. Smith (lichenologist)|David C. Smith]]
2002: * [[David L. Hawksworth]]
2000: * [[Teuvo Ahti]] * [[Georges Clauzade]] * [[Nina Golubkova]]
1996: * [[Vernon Ahmadjian]] * [[Siegfried Huneck]] * [[Christian Leuckert]]
1994: * [[Irwin M. Brodo]] * [[Margalith Galun]] * [[Syo Kurokawa]] * [[Elisabeth Tschermak-Woess]]
1992: * [[Dharani Dhar Awasthi]] * [[Chicita F. Culberson]] * [[William L. Culberson]] * [[Gunnar Degelius]] * [[Aino Henssen]] * [[Peter Wilfred James]] * [[Hildur Krog]] * [[Otto Ludwig Lange]] * [[Josef Poelt]] * [[Rolf Santesson]] * [[John W. Thomson]] * [[Hans Trass]] * [[Antonin Vězda]]
==See also==
* [[List of biology awards]]
==References== {{reflist}}
==External links== *[https://ial-lichenology.org/awards/ List of Acharius Medal recipients] {{Recipients of the Acharius Medal}}
[[Category:Biology awards]] [[Category:Lichenology]] [[Category:Lifetime achievement awards]] [[Category:Awards established in 1990]] [[Category:Awards of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences]]