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Leeuwenhoek Lecture

Index Leeuwenhoek Lecture

The Leeuwenhoek Lecture is a prize lecture of the Royal Society to recognize achievement in microbiology. [1]

54 relations: Aaron Klug, Albert Kluyver, Alfred Rupert Hall, André Michel Lwoff, Antonie van Leeuwenhoek, Christopher Andrewes, David Hopwood, David Keilin, David Tyrrell (physician), Donald Devereux Woods, Ernest Gale, François Jacob, Frank Fenner, Fred Brown (virologist), Geoffrey Beale, George A. M. Cross, Gordon Elliott Fogg, Guido Pontecorvo, Hamao Umezawa, Hans Kornberg, Harry Smith (microbiologist), Howard Dalton, Jacques Monod, James Baddiley, Joel Mandelstam, John Cairns (biochemist), John Postgate (microbiologist), John Rodney Guest, John Skehel, Juda Hirsch Quastel, Julian Davies (microbiologist), Keith Chater, Keith Vickerman, Kenneth Murray (biologist), Michael A. Epstein, Michael Stoker, Microbiology, Norman Pirie, Patricia H. Clarke, Paul Fildes, Percy Wragg Brian, Peter Biggs, Peter C. Doherty, Piet Borst, Renato Dulbecco, Robert Webster (virologist), Robin Weiss, Royal Society, Sarah Cleaveland, Stephen C. West, ..., William Bradshaw Amos, William Fleming Hoggan Jarrett, William Hayes (geneticist), William Stewart (biologist). Expand index (4 more) »

Aaron Klug

Sir Aaron Klug (born 11 August 1926) is a Lithuanian-born, South African-educated, 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.

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Albert Kluyver

Albert Jan Kluyver ForMemRS (June 3, 1888 – May 14, 1956) was a Dutch microbiologist and biochemist.

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Alfred Rupert Hall

Alfred Rupert Hall (or Rupert Hall) (26 July 1920 – 5 February 2009) was a prominent British historian of science, known as editor of a collection of Isaac Newton's unpublished scientific papers (1962), and Newton's correspondence, in 1977.

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André Michel Lwoff

André Michel Lwoff (8 May 1902 – 30 September 1994) was a French microbiologist and Nobel laureate.

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Antonie van Leeuwenhoek

Antonie Philips van Leeuwenhoek FRS (24 October 1632 – 26 August 1723) was a Dutch businessman and scientist in the Golden Age of Dutch science and technology.

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Christopher Andrewes

Sir Christopher Howard Andrewes (7 June 1896 – 31 December 1988) was a British virologist who discovered the human influenza A virus in 1933.

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David Hopwood

Sir David Alan Hopwood FRS (born 19 August 1933) is a British microbiologist and geneticist.

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David Keilin

David Keilin FRS (21 March 1887 – 27 February 1963) was an entomologist, among other things.

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David Tyrrell (physician)

David Arthur John Tyrrell (1925–2005) was a British virologist.

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Donald Devereux Woods

Professor Donald Devereux Woods (16 February 1912 - 6 November 1964) was a British microbiologist.

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Ernest Gale

Ernest Frederick Gale FRS (15 July 1914 – 7 March 2005) was a British microbiologist.

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François Jacob

François Jacob (17 June 1920 – 19 April 2013) was a French biologist who, together with Jacques Monod, originated the idea that control of enzyme levels in all cells occurs through regulation of transcription.

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Frank Fenner

Frank John Fenner, AC, CMG, MBE, FRS, FAA (21 December 1914 – 22 November 2010) was an Australian scientist with a distinguished career in the field of virology.

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Fred Brown (virologist)

Fred Brown OBE FRS (31 January 1925 – 20 February 2004) was a British virologist and molecular biologist.

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Geoffrey Beale

Geoffrey Herbert Beale MBE, FRS (11 June 1913 – 16 October 2009) was a British geneticist.

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George A. M. Cross

George Alan Martin Cross FRS (born 27 September 1942) is a British molecular parasitologist.

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Gordon Elliott Fogg

Gordon Elliott Fogg (26 April 1919 – 30 January 2005) was a British biologist.

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Guido Pontecorvo

Prof Guido Pellegrino Arrigo Pontecorvo FRS FRSE (29 November 1907 – 25 September 1999) was an Italian-born Scottish geneticist.

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Hamao Umezawa

was a Japanese scientist who discovered several antimicrobial agents and enzyme inhibitors.

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Hans Kornberg

Sir Hans Leo Kornberg, FRS (born 14 January 1928) is a German-born British biochemist.

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Harry Smith (microbiologist)

Harry Smith (7 August 1921 – 10 December 2011) was a British microbiologist, and Professor of Microbiology, at the University of Birmingham.

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Howard Dalton

Sir Howard Dalton, FRS (8 February 1944 – 12 January 2008) was a British microbiologist.

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Jacques Monod

Jacques Lucien Monod (February 9, 1910 – May 31, 1976), a French biochemist, won the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1965, sharing it with François Jacob and Andre Lwoff "for their discoveries concerning genetic control of enzyme and virus synthesis".

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James Baddiley

Sir James Baddiley FRS FRSE (15 May 1918, in Manchester – 17 November 2008, in Cambridge) was a British biochemist.

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Joel Mandelstam

Joel Mandelstam FRS (13 November 1919 – 20 December 2008) was a British microbiologist, a Professor, at the University of Oxford, and a Fellow of Linacre College, Oxford.

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John Cairns (biochemist)

(Hugh) John Forster Cairns FRS (born 21 November 1922) is a British physician and molecular biologist who made significant contributions to molecular genetics, cancer research, and public health.

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John Postgate (microbiologist)

John Raymond Postgate (24 June 1922 – 22 October 2014), FRS was an English microbiologist and writer, latterly Professor Emeritus of Microbiology at the University of Sussex.

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John Rodney Guest

John Rodney Guest, FRS (born 27 December 1935) is a British molecular microbiologist.

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John Skehel

Sir John James Skehel (born 27 February 1941) FRS FMedSci is a British virologist and Emeritus scientist at the Francis Crick Institute in London.

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Juda Hirsch Quastel

Juda Hirsch Quastel, (October 2, 1899 – October 15, 1987) was a British-Canadian biochemist who pioneered diverse research in neurochemistry, soil metabolism, cellular metabolism, and cancer.

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Julian Davies (microbiologist)

Julian Edmund Davies FRS is a British microbiologist, professor emeritus, and Principal Investigator of the Davies Lab, at University of British Columbia.

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Keith Chater

Keith Frederick Chater FRS (born 23 April 1944) is a British microbiologist, and John Innes Foundation Emeritus Fellow, at John Innes Centre.

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Keith Vickerman

Keith Vickerman FRS FRSE (21 March 1933 – 28 June 2016) was a British zoologist, Regius Professor of Zoology, University of Glasgow, 1984–98 Awarded the Linnean Medal in 1996.

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Kenneth Murray (biologist)

Sir Kenneth "Ken" Murray FRS FRSE FRCPath (30 December 1930 – 7 April 2013) was an English molecular biologist and the Biogen Professor of Molecular Biology at the University of Edinburgh.

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Michael A. Epstein

Sir Michael Anthony Epstein, CBE, FRS, FMedSci (born 18 May 1921) is a British pathologist and academic.

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Michael Stoker

Sir Michael George Parke Stoker CBE FRS MD FRCP (4 July 1918 – 13 August 2013) was a British physician and medical researcher in virology.

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Microbiology

Microbiology (from Greek μῑκρος, mīkros, "small"; βίος, bios, "life"; and -λογία, -logia) is the study of microorganisms, those being unicellular (single cell), multicellular (cell colony), or acellular (lacking cells).

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Norman Pirie

Norman Wingate (Bill) Pirie FRS (1 July 1907 – 29 March 1997), was a British biochemist and virologist who, along with Frederick Bawden, discovered that a virus can be crystallized by isolating tomato bushy stunt virus in 1936.

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Patricia H. Clarke

Patricia Hannah Clarke FRS (née Green) (29 July 1919 – 28 January 2010) was a British biochemist.

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Paul Fildes

Sir Paul Gordon Fildes (10 February 1882 – 5 February 1971) was a British pathologist and microbiologist who worked on the development of chemical-biological weaponry at Porton Down during the Second World War.

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Percy Wragg Brian

Percy Wragg Brian FRS FRSE CBE (5 September 1910 – 17 August 1979) was a British botanist and mycologist.

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Peter Biggs

Peter Biggs was the senior special effects technician for the movie Who Framed Roger Rabbit and a number of popular Hollywood films during the 1980s.

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Peter C. Doherty

Peter Charles Doherty, (born 15 October 1940) is an Australian veterinary surgeon and researcher in the field of medicine.

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Piet Borst

Piet Borst (born 5 July 1934, Amsterdam) is emeritus professor of Clinical Biochemistry and Molecular Biology at the University of Amsterdam (UVA), and the former Director of Research and Chairman of the Board of Directors of the Netherlands Cancer Institute and the Antoni van Leeuwenhoekziekenhuis (NKI-AVL), where he still works as staff member.

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Renato Dulbecco

Renato Dulbecco (February 22, 1914 – February 19, 2012) was an Italian American, who won the 1975 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for his work on oncoviruses, which are viruses that can cause cancer when they infect animal cells.

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Robert Webster (virologist)

Robert Gordon (Rob) Webster (born 5 July 1932 in Balclutha, New Zealand) is an avian influenza authority who correctly posited that pandemic strains of flu arise from genes in flu virus strains in nonhumans; for example, via a reassortment of genetic segments (antigenic shift) between viruses in humans and nonhumans (especially birds) rather than by mutations (antigenic drift) in annual human flu strains.

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Robin Weiss

Robert Anthony "Robin" Weiss (born 20 February 1940) is a British molecular biologist, Professor of Viral Oncology at University College London and a member of the Nuffield Council on Bioethics.

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Royal Society

The President, Council and Fellows of the Royal Society of London for Improving Natural Knowledge, commonly known as the Royal Society, is a learned society.

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Sarah Cleaveland

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Stephen C. West

Stephen Craig West FRS (born 11 April 1952) is a British biochemist and molecular biologist specialising in research on DNA recombination and repair.

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William Bradshaw Amos

William Bradshaw Amos FRS (born 1945) is a British biologist, Emeritus Scientist at the MRC, Laboratory of Molecular Biology.

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William Fleming Hoggan Jarrett

William Fleming Hoggan Jarrett (1928–2011) was a British pathologist.

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William Hayes (geneticist)

Prof William Hayes FRS FRSE LLD (18 January 1913 – 7 January 1994) was an Irish geneticist.

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William Stewart (biologist)

Sir William Duncan Paterson Stewart, FRS, FRSE (born 6 June 1935) was President of the Royal Society of Edinburgh from 1999–2002 and Chairman of the Microbiological Research Authority.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leeuwenhoek_Lecture

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