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Prize of the Microbiology Society
Award
Marjory Stephenson Prize Awarded for outstanding contribution of current importance in microbiology. Presented by
Microbiology Society First awarded 1953
The Marjory Stephenson Prize is the principal prize of the
Microbiology Society , awarded for an outstanding contribution of current importance in microbiology.
Marjory Stephenson was the second president of the Microbiology Society (1947 - 1949) and a distinguished pioneer of chemical microbiology.
Recipients
Source:
Microbiology Society
1953
Donald Devereux Woods , The Integration of Research on the Nutrition and Metabolism of Micro-organisms
1955
Cornelius Van Niel , Natural Selection in the Microbial World
1957
André Michel Lwoff , The Concept of Virus
1959 G.S. Wilson, Faults and Fallacies in Microbiology
1961 Bert C.J.G. Knight, The Growth of Microbiology
1963 M. Robertson, Some Aspects of the Protozoa and Their Way of Life
1965 Sir
Christopher Andrewes , The Troubles of a Virus
1967 Sidney Reuben Elsden, Energy Relations and Fermentations, 1930–1967
1969
Jacques Monod , The Bacterial Cell as a Cybernetic System
1971
Ernest Frederick Gale , Don't Talk to Me about Permeability
1973
Renato Dulbecco , Cell Transformation by Viruses and the Role of Viruses in Cancer
1975
Ephraim Saul Anderson , Push Hard - or How to Promote Resistance
1977
Jean-Marie Ghuysen , The Concept of the Penicillin Target from 1965 until Today
1979 D. Herbert, These Narrow Engines...
1981
Patricia H. Clarke , Adaptation
1983
Milton R.J. Salton , From Walls to Membranes
1985
Peter Wildy , Little Fleas and Lesser Fleas
1987
David A.J. Tyrrell , The Common Cold - My Favourite Infection
1990
Paul M. Nurse (now Sir Paul), On Fission
1992
John R. Guest , Oxygen-regulated Gene Expression in E. coli
1994
Anthony P.J. (Tony) Trinci , Evolution of the Quorn Myco-protein Fungus Fusarium graminearum
1996
Keith Gull , Oneness and Otherness in Eukaryotic Microbes
1998
Rudolf Thauer , Biochemistry of Methanogenesis
2000 D. W. Holden, In vivo Genetic Analysis of Salmonella Virulence
2002
Stewart Thomas Cole , Comparative and Functional Genomics of Mycobacterium tuberculosis
2004
Stanley Falkow , Thoughts on Persistent Bacterial Infections
2006 Sir
John Skehel , Invasion by Influenza Viruses
2008
Alan B. Rickinson , Studies with an Oncogenic Virus: How to Survive a Lifetime with EBV
2010
Jan Tommassen , Assembly of outer membrane proteins in bacteria and mitochondria
2012
Yuan Chang &
Patrick S. Moore , Old Themes and New Variations in Human Tumor Virology
2014
Laura Piddock , Understanding the Basis of Antibiotic Resistance as a Platform for Early Drug Discovery
2015
Robin Weiss , What's the host and what's the microbe?
2016
Steve Oliver , Petri plates to Petri nets: the path to systems microbiology
2017
Stephen Busby FRS , Transcription activation in bacteria: ancient and modern
2018
Geoffrey L Smith FRS , Vaccinia virus: a portrait of a poxvirus
2019
Gordon Dougan , Putting Genomics into Action
2021
Martin C. J. Maiden , for translating basic science into practical public health benefits, especially vaccination, and food safety.
2023
Sharon Peacock for applying the
sequencing of pathogen genomes to clinical and public health microbiology including of
SARS-CoV-2 .
2024 Maggie Smith for discoveries about
bacteriophage .
In 1988, the Marjory Stephenson Memorial Lecture was renamed the Marjory Stephenson Prize Lecture. Copies of most of these lectures can be found on the
Microbiology Society webpage
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