Editing Leeuwenhoek Medal (section)

==Recipients==
The following persons have received the Leeuwenhoek medal:<ref>
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*1877 [[Christian Gottfried Ehrenberg]], Germany
*1885 [[Ferdinand Cohn]], Germany
*1895 [[Louis Pasteur]], France
*1905 [[Martinus Beijerinck]], Netherlands
*1915 [[David Bruce (microbiologist)|Sir David Bruce]], United Kingdom
*1925 [[Félix d'Herelle]], (at the time) Egypt
*1935 [[Sergei Winogradsky|Sergei Nikolaevitch Winogradsky]], France
*1950 [[Selman Waksman|Selman Abraham Waksman]], United States
*1960 [[André Lwoff]], France
*1970 [[C. B. van Niel|Cornelius Bernardus van Niel]] (Kees van Niel), United States
*1981 [[Roger Stanier|Roger Yate Stanier]], France
*1992 [[Carl Woese]], United States
*2003 [[Karl Stetter]], Germany
*2015 [[Craig Venter]], United States of America
*2023 [[Jillian Banfield]], Australia