The Leeuwenhoek Lecture is a prize lecture of the Royal Society to recognize achievement in microbiology.[1] The prize was originally given in 1950 and awarded annually, but from 2006 to 2018 was given triennially. From 2018 it will be awarded biennially.
| Leeuwenhoek Lecture and Medal | |
|---|---|
 The Leeuwenhoek Lecture and Medal is named in honour of the scientist Antonie van Leeuwenhoek (1632–1723) | |
| Awarded for | Recognising excellence in the field of microbiology, bacteriology, virology, mycology and parasitology, and microscopy |
| Location | London |
| Presented by | Royal Society |
| Reward(s) | £2000 and Medal |
| Website | royalsociety |
The prize is named after the Dutch microscopist Antonie van Leeuwenhoek and was instituted in 1948 from a bequest from George Gabb. A gift of £2000 is associated with the lecture.[1]
Leeuwenhoek Lecturers
editThe following is a list of Leeuwenhoek Lecture award winners along with the title of their lecture:[2]
21st Century
edit- 2024 Joanne Webster, for her achievements in advancing control of disease in humans and animals caused by parasites in Asia and Africa
- 2022 Sjors Scheres, for ground-breaking contributions and innovations in image analysis and reconstruction methods in electron cryo-microscopy, enabling the structure determination of complex macromolecules of fundamental biological and medical importance to atomic resolution
- 2020 Geoffrey L. Smith, for his studies of poxviruses which has had major impact in wider areas, notably vaccine development, biotechnology, host-pathogen interactions and innate immunity [3]
- 2018 Sarah Cleaveland, Can we make rabies history? Realising the value of research for the global elimination of rabies[4][5][6]
- 2015 Jeffrey Errington, for his seminal discoveries in relation to the cell cycle and cell morphogenesis in bacteria
- 2012 Brad Amos, How new science is transforming the optical microscope
- 2010 Robert Gordon Webster, Pandemic Influenza: one flu over the cuckoo's nest
- 2006 Richard Anthony Crowther, Microscopy goes cold: frozen viruses reveal their structural secrets.[7]
- 2005 Keith Chater, Streptomyces inside out: a new perspective on the bacteria that provide us with antibiotics.
- 2004 David Sherratt, A bugs life
- 2003 Brian Spratt, Bacterial populations and bacterial disease
- 2002 Stephen West, DNA repair from microbes to man
- 2001 Robin Weiss, From Pan to pandemic: animal to human infections[8]
20th Century
edit- 2000 Howard Dalton, The natural and unnatural history of methane-oxidising bacteria[9]
- 1999 Peter C. Doherty, Killer T cells and virus infections
- 1998 George A.M. Cross, The genetics and cell biology of antigenic variation in trypanosomes
- 1997 Peter Biggs, Mareks disease, tumours and prevention[10]
- 1996 Julian Davies, Microbial molecular diversity - function, evolution and applications
- 1995 John Guest, Adaptation to life without oxygen[11]
- 1994 Keith Vickerman, The opportunistic parasite
- 1993 Fred Brown, Peptide vaccines, dream or reality.[12]
- 1992 John Postgate, Bacterial evolution and the nitrogen-fixing plant
- 1991 Harry Smith, The influence of the host on microbes that cause disease[13]
- 1990 John Skehel, How enveloped viruses enter cells
- 1989 Piet Borst, Antigenic variation in African trypanosomes
- 1988 Alfred Rupert Hall, Antoni van Leeuwenhoek (1632-1723) and Anglo-Dutch collaboration
- 1987 David Alan Hopwood, Towards an understanding of gene switching in streptomyces, the basis of sporulation and antibiotic production[14]
- 1986 William Fleming Hoggan Jarrett, Environmental carcinogens and paillomaviruses in the pathogenesis of cancer.[15]
- 1985 Kenneth Murray, A molecular biologist's view of viral hepatitis[16]
- 1984 William Duncan Paterson Stewart, The functional organisation of nitrogen-fixing cyanobacteria.
- 1983 Michael Anthony Epstein, A prototype vaccine to prevent Epstein-Barr (E.B.) virus-associated tumours.[17]
- 1982 Hamao Umezawa, Studies of microbial products in rising to the challenge of curing cancer[18]
- 1981 Frank William Ernest Gibson, The biochemical and genetic approach to the study of bioenergetics with the use of Escherichia coli: progress and prospects.[19]
- 1980 David Arthur John Tyrrell, Is it a virus?[20]
- 1979 Patricia Hannah Clarke, Experiments in microbial evolution: new enzymes, new metabolic activities.
- 1978 Hugh John Forster Cairns, Bacteria as proper subjects for cancer research.[21]
- 1977 Francois Jacob, Mouse teratocarcinoma and mouse embryo.[22]
- 1976 Geoffrey Herbert Beale, The varied contributions of protozoa to genetical knowledge[23]
- 1975 Joel Mandelstam, Bacterial sporulation: a problem in the biochemistry and genetics of a primitive development system.[24]
- 1974 Renato Dulbecco, The control of cell growth regulation by tumour-inducing viruses: a challenging problem.
- 1973 Aaron Klug, The structure and assembly of regular viruses
- 1972 Hans Leo Kornberg, Carbohydrate transport by micro-organisms
- 1971 Michael George Parke Stoker, Tumour viruses and the sociology of fibroblasts[25]
- 1970 Philip Herries Gregory, Airborne microbes: their significance and distribution
- 1969 Jacques Lucien Monod, Cellular and molecular cybernetics.
- 1968 Gordon Elliott Fogg, The physiology of an algal nuisance
- 1967 James Baddiley, Teichoic acids and the molecular structure of bacterial walls[26]
- 1966 Percy Wragg Brian, Obligate parasitism in fungi[27]
- 1965 William Hayes, Some controversial aspects of bacterial sexuality[28]
- 1964 Donald Devereux Woods, A pattern of research with two bacterial growth factors
- 1963 Norman Wingate Pirie, The size of small organisms
- 1962 Guido Pontecorvo, Microbial genetics: achievements and prospects[29]
- 1961 Frank John Fenner, Interactions between poxviruses
- 1960 Andre Michel Lwoff, Viral functions
- 1959 Frederick Charles Bawden, Viruses: retrospect and prospect
- 1958 David Keilin, The problem of anabiosis or latent life: history and current concepts[30]
- 1957 Wilson Smith, Virus-host cell interactions
- 1956 Ernest Frederick Gale, The biochemical organization of the bacterial cell
- 1955 Henry Gerard Thornton, The ecology of micro-organisms in soil.
- 1954 Juda Hirsch Quastel, Soil metabolism
- 1953 Kenneth Manley Smith, Some aspects of the behaviour of certain viruses in their hosts and of their development in the cell.
- 1952 Albert Jan Kluyver, The changing appraisal of the microbe
- 1951 Christopher Howard Andrewes, The place of viruses in nature[31]
- 1950 Paul Gordon Fildes, The development of microbiology.[32]
References
edit- ^ a b "Leeuwenhoek Medal and Lecture". The Royal Society. Retrieved 19 January 2018.
- ^ "Award winners: Leeuwenhoek Lecture". The Royal Society. Retrieved 19 January 2018.
- ^ "Leeuwenhoek Medal and Lecture winner 2020". Royal Society. Retrieved 5 October 2019.
- ^ Cleaveland, Sarah; Hampson, Katie (2017). "Rabies elimination research: juxtaposing optimism, pragmatism and realism". Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences. 284 (1869): 20171880. doi:10.1098/rspb.2017.1880. ISSN 0962-8452. PMC 5745407. PMID 29263285.
- ^ The Royal Society (20 April 2018). "Can we make rabies history? Realising the value of research for the global elimination of rabies". YouTube. Archived from the original on 2021-12-21. Retrieved 24 June 2019.
- ^ "Can we make rabies history? Realising the value of research for the global elimination of rabies. - Royal Society". Royalsociety.org. Retrieved 24 June 2019.
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- ^ Jarrett WF (1987). "The Leeuwenhoek lecture, 1986. Environmental carcinogens and papillomaviruses in the pathogenesis of cancer". Proceedings of the Royal Society. 231 (1262): 1–11. Bibcode:1987RSPSB.231....1J. doi:10.1098/rspb.1987.0031. PMID 2888116.
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- ^ Beale GH (1977). "The Leeuwenhoek lecture, 1976: protozoa and genetics". Proceedings of the Royal Society. 196 (1122): 13–27. Bibcode:1977RSPSB.196...13B. doi:10.1098/rspb.1977.0026. PMID 15271.
- ^ Mandelstam J (1976). "The Leeuwenhoek lecture, 1975: bacterial sporulation: a problem in the biochemistry and genetics of a primitive developmental system". Proceedings of the Royal Society. 193 (1111): 89–106. Bibcode:1976RSPSB.193...89M. doi:10.1098/rspb.1976.0033. PMID 5735.
- ^ Stoker MG (1972). "The Leeuwenhoek lecture, 1971. Tumour viruses and the sociology of fibroblasts". Proceedings of the Royal Society. 181 (1062): 1–17. Bibcode:1972RSPSB.181....1S. doi:10.1098/rspb.1972.0038. PMID 4402333.
- ^ Baddiley J (1968). "The Leeuwenhoek lecture, 1967. Teichoic acids and the molecular structure of bacterial walls". Proceedings of the Royal Society. 170 (1021): 331–48. Bibcode:1968RSPSB.170..331B. doi:10.1098/rspb.1968.0043. PMID 4385583.
- ^ Brian, P.W. (1967). "The Leeuwenhoek Lecture, 1966 - Obligate parasitism in fungi". Proceedings of the Royal Society of London. Series B. Biological Sciences. 168 (1011): 101–118. Bibcode:1967RSPSB.168..101B. doi:10.1098/rspb.1967.0054. ISSN 2053-9193. PMID 4384051.
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- ^ Pontecorvo, Guido (1963). "The Leeuwenhoek Lecture - Microbial genetics: retrospect and prospect". Proceedings of the Royal Society of London. Series B. Biological Sciences. 158 (970): 1–23. Bibcode:1963RSPSB.158....1P. doi:10.1098/rspb.1963.0031. ISSN 2053-9193.
- ^ Keilin, David (1959). "The Leeuwenhoek Lecture - The problem of anabiosis or latent life: history and current concept". Proceedings of the Royal Society of London. Series B. Biological Sciences. 150 (939): 149–191. Bibcode:1959RSPSB.150..149K. doi:10.1098/rspb.1959.0013. ISSN 2053-9193.
- ^ Andrewes, C. H. (1952). "Leeuwenhoek Lecture - The place of viruses in nature". Proceedings of the Royal Society of London. Series B. Biological Sciences. 139 (896): 313–326. Bibcode:1952RSPSB.139..313A. doi:10.1098/rspb.1952.0015. ISSN 2053-9193.
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