Leeuwenhoek Lecture
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The Leeuwenhoek Lecture is a prize lecture of the Royal Society
originally given annually, but now every three years, on the subject of microbiology. It is named after the Dutch microscopist Anton van Leeuwenhoek
and was instituted in 1948 from a bequest. A gift of £500 is associated with the lecture.
Royal Society
The Royal Society of London for Improving Natural Knowledge, known simply as the Royal Society, is a learned society for science, and is possibly the oldest such society in existence. Founded in November 1660, it was granted a Royal Charter by King Charles II as the "Royal Society of London"...
originally given annually, but now every three years, on the subject of microbiology. It is named after the Dutch microscopist Anton van Leeuwenhoek
Anton van Leeuwenhoek
Antonie Philips van Leeuwenhoek was a Dutch tradesman and scientist from Delft, Netherlands. He is commonly known as "the Father of Microbiology", and considered to be the first microbiologist...
and was instituted in 1948 from a bequest. A gift of £500 is associated with the lecture.
21st Century
- 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.
- 2005 Keith Chater , Streptomyces indside 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 WeissRobin WeissRobert Anthony "Robin" Weiss is a British molecular biologist, and Professor of Viral Oncology at University College London.-Research:...
, From Pan to pandemic: animal to human infections
20th Century
- 2000 Howard DaltonHoward DaltonSir Howard Dalton, FRS was a British microbiologist.He was the Chief Scientific Advisor to the UK's Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs from March 2002 to September 2007....
, The natural and unnatural history of methane-oxidising bacteria - 1999 Peter C. Doherty , Killer T cells and virus infections
- 1998 George A.M. CrossGeorge A.M. CrossGeorge Alan Martin Cross FRS is a British molecular parasitologist. He has been André and Bella Meyer Professor of Molecular Parasitology at Rockefeller University since 1982. He was elected as a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1984...
, The genetics and cell biology of antigenic variation in trypanosomes - 1997 Peter BiggsPeter BiggsPeter Biggs was the senior special effects technician for the movie Who Framed Roger Rabbit and a number of popular Hollywood films during the 1980s.-Filmography:* A Kiss Before Dying - Special effects technician...
, Mareks disease, tumours and prevention - 1996 Julian Davies , Microbial molecular diversity - function, evolution and applications
- 1995 John GuestJohn GuestJohn Guest was a Commodore of the United States Navy, whose active-duty career lasted from the late 1830s through the Civil War.Guest was born in Missouri on 7 March, 1822...
, Adaptation to life without oxygen - 1994 Keith Vickerman , The opportunistic parasite
- 1993 Fred BrownFred Brown (virologist)Fred Brown was a British virologist and molecular biologist.-Early life:He was born in Clayton-le-Moors, Lancashire and lived in neighbouring Burnley, where he was educated at Burnley Grammar School and played cricket for Burnley Cricket Club...
, Peptide vaccines, dream or reality. - 1992 John Postgate , Bacterial evolution and the nitrogen-fixing plant
- 1991 Harry Smith , The influence of the host on microbes that cause disease
- 1990 John SkehelJohn SkehelSir John James Skehel, FRS is a British virologist. He was born in Blackburn to Joseph and Annie Skehel in 1941, and was educated at St. Mary's College, Blackburn before being accepted to the University of Aberystwyth for a BSc in agricultural biochemistry.Soon after graduating he married Anita...
, How enveloped viruses enter cells - 1989 Piet Borst , Antigenic variation in African trypanosomes
- 1988 Alfred Rupert HallAlfred Rupert HallAlfred Rupert Hall was a prominent British Historian of Science notably renown for editing a valuable collection of Isaac Newton's unpublished scientific papers and publishing Newton's correspondence, in 1977.-Life:He went to Christ's College, Cambridge, in 1938 to study history, but his studies...
, Antoni van Leeuwenhoek (1632-1723) and Anglo-Dutch collaboration - 1987 David Alan HopwoodDavid HopwoodSir David Alan Hopwood FRS is a British geneticist.He gained his PhD from St John's College, Cambridge and served as an assistant lecturer in genetics at Cambridge until he became a Lecturer in Genetics at the University of Glasgow in 1961...
, Towards an understanding of gene switching in streptomyces, the basis of sporulation and antibiotic production - 1986 William Fleming Hoggan Jarrett , Environmental carcinogens and paillomaviruses in the pathogenesis of cancer.
- 1985 Kenneth Murray , A molecular biologist's view of viral hepatitis
- 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.
- 1982 Hamao UmezawaHamao Umezawawas a Japanese scientist who discovered several antimicrobial agents and enzyme inhibitors.After graduating from the Musashi Junior and Senior High School, Umezawa completed his medical degree in 1937. After serving in Japanese army during World War II Umezawa did work on tuberculosis which led to...
, Studies of microbial products in rising to the challenge of curing cancer - 1981 Frank William Ernest Gibson , The biochemical and genetic approach to the study of bioenergetics with the use of Escherichia coli: progress and prospects.
- 1980 David Arthur John Tyrrell , Is it a virus?
- 1979 Patricia Hannah ClarkePatricia ClarkePatricia Hannah Clarke, née Green, FRS was a British biochemist.Clarke was born in Pontypridd, South Wales, and was educated at Howell's School, Llandaff, from 1930 to 1937, before studying the Natural Sciences Tripos at Girton College, Cambridge, from 1937 to 1940.After graduating she took a post...
, Experiments in microbial evolution: new enzymes, new metabolic activities. - 1978 Hugh John Forster Cairns , Bacteria as proper subjects for cancer research.
- 1977 Francois JacobFrançois JacobFrançois Jacob is a French biologist who, together with Jacques Monod, originated the idea that control of enzyme levels in all cells occurs through feedback on transcription. He shared the 1965 Nobel Prize in Medicine with Jacques Monod and André Lwoff.-Childhood and education:François Jacob is...
, Mouse teratocarcinoma and mouse embryo. - 1976 Geoffrey Herbert Beale , The varied contributions of protozoa to genetical knowledge
- 1975 Joel MandelstamJoel MandelstamJoel Mandelstam FRS was a British microbiologist. He was a Professor, at the University of Oxford, and a Fellow of Linacre College, Oxford.-Career:* Lecturer, Queen Elizabeth College, London, 1947-51...
, Bacterial sporulation: a problem in the biochemistry and genetics of a primitive development system. - 1974 Renato DulbeccoRenato DulbeccoRenato Dulbecco is an Italian virologist who won a 1975 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for his work on reverse transcriptase. In 1973 he was awarded the Louisa Gross Horwitz Prize from Columbia University together with Theodore Puck and Harry Eagle. Dulbecco was the recipient of the Selman A...
, The control of cell growth regulation by tumour-inducing viruses: a challenging problem. - 1973 Aaron KlugAaron KlugSir Aaron Klug, OM, PRS is a Lithuanian-born British chemist and biophysicist, and winner of the 1982 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for his development of crystallographic electron microscopy and his structural elucidation of biologically important nucleic acid-protein complexes.-Biography:Klug was...
, The structure and assembly of regular viruses - 1972 Hans Leo Kornberg , Carbohydrate transport by micro-organisms
- 1971 Michael George Parke StokerMichael StokerSir Michael George Parke Stoker CBE FRS MD FRCP is a British physician.He studied medicine at Clare College, Cambridge and St Thomas' Hospital in London, gaining his MD in 1947, after serving in the Royal Army Medical Corps during WWII...
, Tumour viruses and the sociology of fibroblasts - 1970 Philip Herries Gregory , Airborne microbes: their significance and distribution
- 1969 Jacques Lucien Monod , Cellular and molecular cybernetics.
- 1968 Gordon Elliott FoggGordon Elliott Fogg-Early life:He was born in Langar, Nottinghamshire and educated at Dulwich College and Queen Mary College, London.-Career:During WW2 he assisted in a national survey of seaweed resources and researched algaes used to make water soluble silk for parachutes to drop mines at sea...
, The physiology of an algal nuisance - 1967 James Baddiley , Teichoic acids and the molecular structure of bacterial walls
- 1966 Percy Wragg BrianPercy Wragg BrianPercy Wragg Brian was a British botanist.He was born in Hall Green, Birmingham to Percy Brian, a schoolteacher from Macclesfield and his wife Adelaide. He graduated from Kings College, Cambridge in 1931...
, Obligate parasitism in fungi - 1965 William HayesWilliam Hayes (geneticist)William Hayes FRS was an Irish geneticist.-Early life:He was born in Rathfarnham, Co Dublin, the only son of William Hayes, a successful Dublin pharmacist, and his second wife, Miriam, née Harris...
, Some controversial aspects of bacterial sexuality - 1964 Donald Devereux WoodsDonald Devereux WoodsDonald Devereux Woods was a British microbiologist. He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1952....
, A pattern of research with two bacterial growth factors - 1963 Norman Wingate Pirie , The size of small organisms
- 1962 Guido PontecorvoGuido PontecorvoGuido Pontecorvo ForMemRS was an Italian-born geneticist.-Career:He fled to Britain in 1938.* Institute of Animal Genetics, University of Edinburgh, 1938-40 and 1944-45...
, Microbial genetics: achievements and prospects - 1961 Frank John Fenner , Interactions between poxviruses
- 1960 Andre Michel LwoffAndré Michel LwoffAndré Michel Lwoff was a French microbiologist. He was born in Ainay-le-Château, Allier, in Auvergne, France. He joined the Institute Pasteur in Paris when he was 19 years old...
, Viral functions - 1959 Frederick Charles Bawden , Viruses: retrospect and prospect
- 1958 David KeilinDavid KeilinDavid Keilin FRS was an entomologist, among other things.His family returned to Warsaw early in his youth. He did not attend school until age ten due to ill health and asthma. Only seven years later, in 1904, he enrolled in the University of Liège...
, The problem of anabiosis or latent life: history and current concepts - 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 QuastelJuda Hirsch QuastelJuda Hirsch Quastel, CC, FRS, FRSE was a British-Canadian biochemist who pioneered diverse research in neurochemistry, soil metabolism, cellular metabolism, and cancer....
, 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
- 1950 Paul Gordon Fildes , The development of microbiology.