Professor Henri Benoît and doctor André Kovacs were awarded the Physics Polymer Prize from the American Physical Society in 1978 and 1986, respectively.
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Institut Charles Sadron
Awards.
Some members of the Institut Charles Sadron have been awarded several national or international prizes for their research. 
 Dr. Bernard Lotz received the 1973 prize of the French polymer group for his pioneering work on the structure of silk (shared with Dr. A. Brack from Centre de Biophysique Moléculaire Orléans). 
