Award winners - Google Drive


1	Award winner	Lecture	Year	Event page
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