In 2001, the year of the re-establishment of Kowalevsky medal, the award was simultaneously given to several outstanding researchers of the XX century, whose works significantly developed evolutionary comparative morphology and embryology. The award procedure requires a broad international nomination, for which an International Committee was elected, consisting of renowned scientists from the USA, Germany, Spain, Denmark, Canada and Russia.
The Kowalevsky medal award
The Imperial St. Petersburg Society of Naturalists founded in 1868 under the Imperial St. Petersburg University, established in the 1910 an international award in the name of Alexander Onufrievich Kowalevsky, the great Russian embryologist, one of the founders of comparative developmental embryology, a graduate and later a professor of St. Petersburg University.