1 | Award winner | Lecture | Year | Event page |
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2 | Professor Edward Holmes FRS | TBC | 2024 | |
3 | Professor Dame Ottoline Leyser DBE FRS | The story of my life | 2023 | https://royalsociety.org/science-events-and-lectures/2023/04/croonian-2023/ |
4 | Sir Stephen O'Rahilly FMedSci FRS and Professor Sadaf Farooqi FMedSci FRS | Nutrient sensing by the brain in health and disease | 2022 | https://royalsociety.org/science-events-and-lectures/2022/04/croonian/ |
5 | Professor Barry Everitt FMedSci FRS | Brain mechanisms of addictive behaviour | 2021 | https://royalsociety.org/science-events-and-lectures/2021/05/croonian-lecture/ |
6 | Edward Boyden | Shining a light on the brain | 2020 | https://royalsociety.org/science-events-and-lectures/2021/02/croonian-lecture/ |
7 | Kay Davies | From diagnosis to therapy in Duchenne muscular dystrophy | 2019 | https://royalsociety.org/science-events-and-lectures/2019/04/croonian-lecture/ |
8 | Jennifer Doudna | Re-writing the Code of Life: CRISPR Systems and Applications of Gene Editing | 2018 | https://royalsociety.org/science-events-and-lectures/2018/05/croonian-prize-lecture/ |
9 | Jonathan F Ashmore | Now you hear it, now you don’t: the neuroscience of deafness | 2017 | https://royalsociety.org/science-events-and-lectures/2017/05/croonian-lecture/ |
10 | Enrico Coen | Picasso, pottery and plants: Hidden rules governing the development of natural forms | 2016 | https://royalsociety.org/science-events-and-lectures/2016/05/croonian-lecture/ |
11 | Nicholas Davies | Cuckoos and their victims: An evolutionary arms race | 2015 | https://royalsociety.org/science-events-and-lectures/2015/05/cuckoos-and-their-victims/ |
12 | Brigid Hogan | How embryos build organs to last a lifetime | 2014 | https://royalsociety.org/events/2014/embryos-organs/ |
13 | Frances Ashcroft | From bench to bedside: KATP channels and neonatal diabetes | 2013 | http://royalsociety.org/events/2013/croonian-lecture/ |
14 | Tim Bliss | The mechanics of memory | 2012 | http://royalsociety.org/events/2012/memory/ |
15 | John Ellis | Molecular chaperones: how cells stop proteins from misbehaving | 2011 | http://royalsociety.org/events/2011/cells-proteins/ |
16 | Alec Jeffreys | Genetic fingerprinting and beyond | 2010 | http://royalsociety.org/events/2010/genetic-fingerprinting/ |
17 | Linda Partridge | The new biology of ageing | 2009 | http://royalsociety.org/events/2009/biology-ageing/ |
18 | John Pickett | Plant and animal communication | 2008 | http://royalsociety.org/events/2008/plant-animal-communication/ |
19 | Aaron Klug | Engineered zinc finger proteins (ZFPs) for the regulation of gene expression | 2007 | http://royalsociety.org/events/2007/zinc-finger-proteins/ |
20 | Iain Campbell | Structure and the living cell | 2006 | http://royalsociety.org/events/2006/structure-living-cell/ |
21 | Salvador Moncada | Adventures in vascular biology | 2005 | http://royalsociety.org/events/2005/vascular-biology/ |
22 | John Krebs | Risk, food, fact and fantasy | 2004 | http://royalsociety.org/events/2004/risk-food/ |
23 | Tim Hunt | Cell growth, cell division and the problem of cancer. | 2003 | |
24 | Kim Nasmyth | Disseminating our genomes during mitosis and meiosis. | 2002 | |
25 | Ron Laskey | Hunting the antisocial cancer cell. | 2001 | |
26 | Nigel Unwin | The nicotinic acetylcholine receptor and the structural basis of synaptic transmission. | 2000 | |
27 | Hugh Pelham | Intracellular membrane traffic: getting proteins sorted. | 1999 | |
28 | Philip Cohen | Discovery of a protein kinase cascade of major importance in insulin signal transduction. | 1998 | |
29 | Anthony Hunter | The phosphorylation of proteins on tyrosine: its role in cell growth and disease. | 1997 | |
30 | Thomas Lindahl | Endogenous damage to DNA. | 1996 | |
31 | Thomas Southwood | Natural communities: structure and dynamics. | 1995 | |
32 | Roy Anderson | Populations, infectious disease and immunity: a very nonlinear world. | 1994 | |
33 | John Vane | The endothelium: maestro of the blood circulation. | 1993 | |
34 | Jacques Miller | The key role of the thymus in the bodys defence strategies. | 1992 | |
35 | Anthony Bradshaw | Genostasis and the limits to evolution? | 1991 | |
36 | Robert Hinde | The interdependence of the behavioural sciences. | 1990 | |
37 | Cesar Milstein | Antibodies, a paradigm of the biology of molecular recognition. | 1989 | |
38 | Michael John Berridge | Inositol lipids and calcium signalling. | 1988 | |
39 | Peter Dennis Mitchell | Proton-motive osmoenzyme mechanisms in cytochrome systems: variations on a theme by Keilin. | 1987 | |
40 | Sydney Brenner | The molecular genetics of muscle in the nematode Caenorhabditis elegans. | 1986 | |
41 | Robert McCredie May | When two and two do not make four: nonlinear phenomena in ecology. | 1985 | |
42 | Samuel Victor Perry | Calcium and the regulation of contractile activity. | 1984 | |
43 | Richard Darwin Keynes | Voltage-gated ion channels in the nerve membrane. | 1983 | |
44 | Seymour Benzer | Genes, neurons and behaviour in Drosophila. | 1982 | |
45 | Harold Garnet Callan | Lampbrush chromosomes. | 1981 | |
46 | Rodney Robert Porter | The complex proteases of the complement system. | 1980 | |
47 | Setsuro Ebashi | Regulation of muscle contraction. | 1979 | |
48 | Michael Abercrombie | Crawling movements of metazoan cells. | 1978 | |
49 | John William Sutton Pringle | Stretch activation of muscle: function and mechanism. | 1977 | |
50 | John Bertrand Gurdon | Egg cytoplasm and gene control in development. | 1976 | |
51 | Frederick Sanger | Nucleotide sequences. | 1975 | |
52 | John Heslop-Harrison | The physiology of the spore surface. | 1974 | |
53 | Eric James Denton | On buoyancy and the lives of modern and fossil cephalopods. | 1973 | |
54 | Nikolaas Tinbergen | Functional ethology and the human sciences. | 1972 | |
55 | Henry Harris | Cell fusion and the analysis of malignancy. | 1971 | |
56 | Hugh Esmor Huxley | The structural basis of muscular contraction. | 1970 | |
57 | Frederick Campion Steward | From cultured cells to whole plants: the induction and control of their growth and morphogenesis. | 1969 | |
58 | Max Ferdinand Perutz | The haemoglobin molecule. | 1968 | |
59 | Andrew Fielding Huxley | The activation of striated muscle and its mechanical response. | 1967 | |
60 | Francis Harry Compton Crick | The genetic code. | 1966 | |
61 | John Zachary Young | The organization of a memory system. | 1965 | |
62 | George Lindor Brown | The release and fate of the transmitter liberated by adrenergic nerves. | 1964 | |
63 | Hans Adolf Krebs | Gluconeogenesis. | 1963 | |
64 | Frank George Young | On insulin and its action. | 1962 | |
65 | Bernard Katz | The transmission of impulses from nerve to muscle, and the subcellular unit of synaptic action. | 1961 | |
66 | Harry Godwin | Radiocarbon dating and Quaternary history inBritain. | 1960 | |
67 | Walter Thomas James Morgan | A contribution to human biochemical genetics: the chemical basis of blood group specificity. | 1959 | |
68 | Peter Brian Medawar | The homograph reaction. | 1958 | |
69 | Alan Lloyd Hodgkin | Ionic movements and electrical activity in giant nerve fibres. | 1957 | |
70 | Frederic Charles Bartlett | Some experiments about thinking. | 1956 | |
71 | Charles Herbert Best | Dietary factors in the protection of the liver, kidneys, heart and other organs in experimental animals. The lipotropic agents. | 1955 | |
72 | Howard Walter Florey | Mucins and the protection of the body. | 1954 | |
73 | Ronald Aylmer Fisher | Population genetics. | 1953 | |
74 | Carl Frederick Abel Pantin | The elementary nervous system. | 1952 | |
75 | Rudolph Albert Peters | Lethal synthesis. | 1951 | |
76 | Frank Macfarlane Burnet | The interaction of virus and cell-surface. | 1950 | |
77 | Detlev Wulf Bronk | The rhythmic action and respiration of nerve cells. | 1949 | |
78 | Vincent Brian Wigglesworth | Insects as a medium for the study of physiology. | 1948 | |
79 | Ernest Basil Verney | The antidiuretic hormone and the factors which determine its release. | 1947 | |
80 | John Burdon Sanderson Haldane | The formal genetics of Man. | 1946 | |
81 | William Thomas Astbur | The structure of biological fibres and the problem of muscle. | 1945 | |
82 | Charles Robert Harington | Thyroxine: its biosynthesis and its immuno-chemistry. | 1944 | |
83 | Edward Mellanby | Nutrition in relation to bone growth and the nervous sytem. | 1943 | |
84 | Lancelot Hogben | Chromatic behaviour. | 1942 | |
85 | William Whiteman Carlton Topley | The biology of epidemics. | 1941 | |
86 | Schack August Steenberg Krogh | The active and passive exchange of inorganic ions through the surfaces of living cells and through living membranes generally. | 1940 | |
87 | James Gray | Aspects of animal locomotion. | 1939 | |
88 | Alfred Newton Richards | Processes of urine formation. | 1938 | |
89 | Henry Horatio Dixon | The transport of materials in plants. | 1937 | |
90 | Francis Hugh Adam Marshall | Sexual periodicity and the causes which determine it. | 1936 | |
91 | Joseph Barcroft | Foetal respiration. | 1935 | |
92 | David Keilin | Mechanisms of cellular respiration. | 1934 | |
93 | Ross Granville Harrison | The origin and development of the nervous system studied by the methods of experimental embryology. | 1933 | |
94 | Davidson Black | The discovery of Sinanthropus. | 1932 | |
95 | Edgar Douglas Adrian | The messages in sensory nerve fibres and their interpretation. | 1931 | |
96 | Jules Bordet | Theories of the bacteriophage. | 1930 | |
97 | James Peter Hill | The developmental history of the primates. | 1929 | |
98 | Ivan Petrovitch Pavlov | Certain problems in the physiology of the cerebral hemispheres. | 1928 | |
99 | Hans Spemann | Organisers in animal development. | 1927 | |
100 | Archibald Vivian Hill | The laws of muscular motion. | 1926 | |
101 | Rudolf Magnus | Animal posture. | 1925 | |
102 | David Meredith Seares Watson | The origin of the amphibia. | 1924 | |
103 | Frederick Frost Blackman | The problem of plant respiration considered as a catalytic process. | 1923 | |
104 | Thomas Hunt Morgan | On the mechanism of heredity. | 1922 | |
105 | Henry Head | Release of function in the nervous system. | 1921 | |
106 | William Bateson | Genetic segregation. | 1920 | |
107 | Henry Hallett Dale | The biological significance of anaphylaxis. | 1919 | |
108 | Walter B Cannon | The physiological basis of thirst. | 1918 | |
109 | Thomas Lewis | Upon the motion of the mammalian heart. | 1917 | |
110 | Sydney John Hickson | Evolution and symmetry in the order of the sea-pens. | 1916 | |
111 | Walter Morley Fletcher and Frederick Gowland Hopkins | The respiratory process in muscle; and the nature of muscular motion. | 1915 | |
112 | Edmund Beecher Wilson | The bearing of cytological research on heredity. | 1914 | |
113 | Robert Broom | The origin of mammals. | 1913 | |
114 | Keith Lucas | The process of excitation in nerve and muscle. | 1912 | |
115 | Thomas Gregor Brodie | A new conception of the glomerular activity. | 1911 | |
116 | Georg Klebs | Alterations in the development and forms of plants as a result of environment. | 1910 | |
117 | Edward Albert Schafer | The functions of the pituitary body. | 1909 | |
118 | Gustaf Retzius | The principles of the minute structure of the nervous system as revealed by recent investigations. | 1908 | |
119 | John Bretland Farmer | Structural constituents of the nucleus, and their relation to the organization of the individual. | 1907 | |
120 | John Newport Langley | On nerve endings and on special excitable substances in cells. | 1906 | |
121 | William Bate Hardy | On the globulins. | 1905 | |
122 | Ernest Henry Starling and William Maddock Bayliss | The chemical regulation of the secretory process. | 1904 | |
123 | C Timiriazeff | The cosmical function of the green plant. | 1903 | |
124 | Arthur Gamgee | On certain chemical and physical properties of haemoglobin. | 1902 | |
125 | C Lloyd Morgan | Studies in visual sensation. | 1901 | |
126 | Paul Ehrlich | On immunity with special reference to cell life. | 1900 | |
127 | JS Burdon Sanderson | On the relation of motion in animals and plants to the electrical phenomena which are associated with it. | 1899 | |
128 | Wilhelm Pfeffer | The nature and significance of functional metabolism in the plant. | 1898 | |
129 | Charles S Sherrington | The mammalian spinal cord as an organ of reflex action. | 1897 | |
130 | Augustus D Waller | Observations on isolated nerve. | 1896 | |
131 | TW Engelmann | On the nature of muscular contraction. | 1895 | |
132 | Ramon y Cajal | La fine structure des centres nerveux | 1894 | |
133 | Rudolph Virchow | The position of pathology among biological studies. | 1893 | |
134 | Angelo Mosso | Les phenomenes psychiques et la temperature du cerveau. | 1892 | |
135 | Francis Gotch and Victor Horsley | On the mammalian nervous system; its functions and their localization determined by an electrical method. | 1891 | |
136 | H Marshall Ward | The relations between host and parasite in certain epidemic diseases of plants. | 1890 | |
137 | Dr Roux | Les inoculations preventives. | 1889 | |
138 | W Kuhn | Ueber die Entstehung der vitalen Bewegung. | 1888 | |
139 | HG Seeley | On Pareiasaurus bombidens (Owen) and the significance of its affinities to amphibians, reptiles, and mammals. | 1887 | |
140 | LC Woolridge | The coagulation of the blood. | 1886 | |
141 | HN Martin | On the direct influence of gradual variations of temperature upon the rate of beat of the dogs heart. | 1883 | |
142 | WH Gaskell | On the rhythm of the heart of the frog, and on the nature of the action of the vagus nerve. | 1882 | |
143 | GJ Romanes and JC Ewart | Observations on the locomotor system of Medusae. | 1881 | |
144 | Rev. S Haughton | On some elementary principles in animal mechanics. No.IX. the relation between the maximum work done, the time of lifting, and the weights lifted by the arms. | 1880 | |
145 | WK Parker | On the structure & development of the skull in the Lacertilia. Part I. On the skull of the common lizard (Lacerta agilis) L. viridis and Zootoca vivipara. | 1879 | |
146 | HN Moseley | On the structure of the Stylasteridae: a family of the hydroid stony corals . | 1878 | |
147 | Dr Sanderson and FJM Page | On the mechanical effects, and on the electrical disturbance consequent on excitation of the leaf of Dionea muscipula. | 1877 | |
148 | GJ Romanes | Preliminary observations on the locomotor system of medusae. | 1876 | |
149 | David Ferrier | Experiments on the brain of monkeys. Second series. | 1875 | |
150 | David Ferrier | The localization of function in the brain. | 1874 | |
151 | Benjamin Ward Richardson | On muscular irritability after systemic death. | 1873 | |
152 | Augustus V Waller | On the results of the method (introduced by the author) of investigating the nervous system, more especially as applied to the elucidation of the functions of the pneumogastric and sympathetic nerves in man. | 1870 | |
153 | JS Burdon Sanderson | On the influence exercised by the movements of respiration on the circulation of the blood. | 1867 | |
154 | Lionel S Beale | On the ultimate nerve fibres distributed to muscle and some other tissues, with observations upon the structure & probable mode of action of a nervous mechanism. | 1865 | |
155 | Hermann Helmholtz | On the normal motions of the human eye in relation to binocular vision. | 1864 | |
156 | Joseph Lister | On the coagulation of the blood. | 1863 | |
157 | Albert Kolliker | On the termination of nerves in muscles, as observed in the frog: and on the disposition of the nerves in the frogs heart. | 1862 | |
158 | Charles Edouard Brown-Sequard | On the relations between muscular irritability, cadaveric rigidity, and putrefaction. | 1861 | |
159 | James Bell Pettigrew | On the arrangement of the muscular fibres of the ventricular portion of the heart of the mammal. | 1860 | |
160 | Thomas Henry Huxley | On the theory of the vertebrate skull. | 1858 | |
161 | James Paget | On the cause of the rhythmic action of the heart. | 1857 | |
162 | Richard Owen | On the Megatherium. | 1851 | |
163 | Everard Home | A Report on the Peculiarities met with in the Stomach of the Zariffa. | 1829 | |
164 | Everard Home | On the Muscles peculiar to Organs of Sense in particular Quadrupeds and Fishes. | 1827 | |
165 | Everard Home | An Enquiry into the mode by which the Propagation of the Species is carried on, in the Common Oyster, and in the large Fresh-water Muscle. | 1826 | |
166 | Everard Home | On the Structure of a Muscular Fibre from which are derived its Elongation and Contraction. | 1825 | |
167 | Everard Home | On the existence of Nerves in the Placenta. | 1824 | |
168 | Everard Home | On the Internal Structure of the Human Brain, when examined in the Microscope, as compared with that of Fiches, Insects and Worms. | 1823 | |
169 | Francis Bauer | Microscopical Observations on the suspension of the Muscular Motions of the Vibrio Tritici. | 1822 | |
170 | Everard Home | On the Anatomical Structure of the Eye; illustrated by Microscopical Drawings, executed by F. Bauer. | 1821 | |
171 | Everard Home | Microscopical Observations on the following subjects. On the Brain and Nerves; showing that the Materials of which they are composed exist in the Blood. On the Discovery of Valves in the branches of the vas breve, lying between the villous and muscular co | 1820 | |
172 | Everard Home | A further Investigation of the component parts of the Blood. | 1819 | |
173 | Everard Home | On the conversion of Pus into Granulations, or new flesh. | 1818 | |
174 | Everard Home | On the Changes the Blood undergoes in the act of Coagulation. | 1817 | |
175 | Benjamin Collins Brodie | On the Influence of the Nervous System on the Action of the Muscles in general and of the Heart in particular. | 1813 | |
176 | Benjamin Collins Brodie | Physiological Researches, respecting the Influence of the Brain on the Action of the Heart, and on the Generation of Animal Heat. | 1810 | |
177 | William Hyde Wollaston | Observations on the Mode of Action of Voluntary Muscles, and on the causes which derange, and assist, the Action of the Heart and Blood Vessels. | 1809 | |
178 | Thomas Young | On the Functions of the Heart and Arteries. | 1808 | |
179 | Anthony Carlisle | On the Natural History and Chemical Analysis of the substances which constitute the Muscles of Animals. | 1807 | |
180 | John Pearson | Remarks on Muscular Power, and on some of the circumstances by which it is increased, diminished or finally abolished. | 1806 | |
181 | Anthony Carlisle | On the Arrangement and Mechanical Action of the Muscles of Fishes. | 1805 | |
182 | Anthony Carlisle | On Muscular Motion. | 1804 | |
183 | John Pearson | On Muscular Motion. | 1803 | |
184 | Everard Home | On the power of the Eye to adjust itself to different distances when deprived of the Crystalline Lens. | 1801 | |
185 | Everard Home | On the Irritability of Nerves. | 1800 | |
186 | Everard Home | On the Structure and Uses of the Membrana Tympani. | 1799 | |
187 | Everard Home | Experiments and Observations upon the Structure of Nerves. | 1798 | |
188 | John Abernethy | A general Review of the latest opinions relative to Animal Life and Motion. | 1797 | |
189 | Everard Home | On the Crystalline Humour of the Eye. | 1796 | |
190 | Everard Home | On the Mechanism employed in producing Muscular Motion. | 1795 | |
191 | Everard Home | On the Crystalline Humour of the Eye. | 1794 | |
192 | Everard Home | On Mr. Hunters Experiments to ascertain whether the Crystalline Humour of the Eye be muscular. | 1793 | |
193 | Matthew Baillie | A general view of the Nature of the Muscles, and an enumeration of the most striking facts connected with the Theory of their Motion. | 1791 | |
194 | Everard Home | On the Mechanism employed in producing Muscular Motion. | 1790 | |
195 | William Blizard | On the Theory of Muscular Motion. | 1789 | |
196 | Gilbert Blane | On the Nature of the Muscles, and on the Theory of Muscular Motion. | 1788 | |
197 | George Fordyce | On Muscular Motion. | 1787 | |
198 | Edward Whittaker Gray | On the Effects of different kinds of Salts applied as Stimulants on the Muscles. | 1786 | |
199 | Edward Whittaker Gray | An Examination into Hallers Theory of Muscular Motion. | 1785 | |
200 | Foart Simmons | On the Irritability of the Muscular Fibres. | 1784 | |
201 | John Hunter | On the Density and Firmness of a Muscle as contributing to its Strength and Agility. | 1782 | |
202 | John Hunter | On the Construction and Application of Muscles and the Power by which they are actuated. | 1781 | |
203 | John Hunter | 1780 | ||
204 | John Hunter | 1779 | ||
205 | John Hunter | 1778 | ||
206 | John Hunter | 1777 | ||
207 | John Hunter | 1776 | ||
208 | John Hunter | 1775 | ||
209 | Charles Morton | 1761 | ||
210 | Charles Morton | 1758 | ||
211 | Charles Morton | 1757 | ||
212 | Charles Morton | 1756 | ||
213 | Charles Morton | 1755 | ||
214 | Charles Morton | 1754 | ||
215 | James Parsons | Critical Remarks upon the Motion and Uses of the Human Pelvis. | 1751 | |
216 | James Parsons | On Muscular Motion | 1750 | |
217 | Browne Langrish | On the Theory of Muscular Motion | 1747 | |
218 | James Parsons | Description of the several Muscles of the Face; with their particular Functions and Uses. | 1746 | |
219 | James Parsons | On Muscular Motion. | 1745 | |
220 | James Parsons | An Introductory Discourse on Muscular Motion. | 1744 | |
221 | James Douglas | (read by William Douglas) Description and Structure of the Human Bladder, with the Uses of its Muscles and Membranes. | 1742 | |
222 | James Douglas | Description of the several Muscles, Membranes and parts belonging to the Uvula of the Palate, and concerned in its action; as also of the several parts subservient to the uses of the Tuba Eustachiana. | 1741 | |
223 | Alexander Stuart Alexander Stuart | On the Peristaltic Motion of the Intestines. Microscopial Observations on several parts of live Frogs. | 1740 | |
224 | Frank Nicholls | An Enquiry into Muscular Motion. | 1739 | |
225 | Alexander Stuart | On the Motion of the Heart, founded on some Anatomical Observations and Experiments, and illustrated by divers Preparations of the Heart, with some Draughts and Machines to explain the Disposition of the Muscular Fibres, with the manner of acting in the S | 1738 |