Johannes Ariëns Kappers Medal
The Johannes Ariëns Kappers Medal is the highest award of the European Biological Rhythms Society (EBRS), created to honor scientists with outstanding achievements and major contributions to the development of our research field.
The design of the medal is based on the one awarded to Johannes Ariëns Kappers—the first President of the EPSG and former Director of the Netherlands Brain Institute—during the second colloquium of the EPSG in Giessen in 1981. One side of the medal shows his profile, and the other side depicts his famous diagram of the sympathetic innervation of the mammalian pineal organ.
Award Recipients
- Paul Pévet – Strasbourg, 2009
- Charlotte Helfrich-Forster – Oxford, 2011
- Josephine Arendt – Munich, 2013
- Helena Illnerová – Manchester, 2015
- Horst-Werner Korf – Amsterdam, 2017
- Till Roenneberg – Lyon, 2019
- Anna Wirz-Justice – Zurich, 2022
- Ueli Schibler – Lübeck, 2025