Leeuwenhoek Lecture

Leeuwenhoek Lecturers

21st Century

• 2020 Geoffrey L. Smith, for his studies of poxviruses which has had major impact in wider areas, notably vaccine development, biotechnology, host-pathogen interactions and innate immunity
• 2018 Sarah Cleaveland, Can we make rabies history? Realising the value of research for the global elimination of rabies
• 2015 Jeffrey Errington, for his seminal discoveries in relation to the cell cycle and cell morphogenesis in bacteria
• 2012 Brad Amos, How new science is transforming the optical microscope
• 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 inside 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 Weiss, From Pan to pandemic: animal to human infections

  20th Century

• 2000 Howard Dalton, The natural and unnatural history of methane-oxidising bacteria
• 1999 Peter C. Doherty, Killer T cells and virus infections
• 1998 George A.M. Cross, The genetics and cell biology of antigenic variation in trypanosomes
• 1997 Peter Biggs, Mareks disease, tumours and prevention
• 1996 Julian Davies, Microbial molecular diversity - function, evolution and applications
• 1995 John Guest, Adaptation to life without oxygen
• 1994 Keith Vickerman, The opportunistic parasite
• 1993 Fred Brown, 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 Skehel, How enveloped viruses enter cells
• 1989 Piet Borst, Antigenic variation in African trypanosomes
• 1988 Alfred Rupert Hall, Antoni van Leeuwenhoek and Anglo-Dutch collaboration
• 1987 David Alan Hopwood, 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 virus-associated tumours.
• 1982 Hamao Umezawa, 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 Clarke, Experiments in microbial evolution: new enzymes, new metabolic activities.
• 1978 Hugh John Forster Cairns, Bacteria as proper subjects for cancer research.
• 1977 Francois Jacob, Mouse teratocarcinoma and mouse embryo.
• 1976 Geoffrey Herbert Beale, The varied contributions of protozoa to genetical knowledge
• 1975 Joel Mandelstam, Bacterial sporulation: a problem in the biochemistry and genetics of a primitive development system.
• 1974 Renato Dulbecco, The control of cell growth regulation by tumour-inducing viruses: a challenging problem.
• 1973 Aaron Klug, The structure and assembly of regular viruses
• 1972 Hans Leo Kornberg, Carbohydrate transport by micro-organisms
• 1971 Michael George Parke Stoker, 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 Fogg, The physiology of an algal nuisance
• 1967 James Baddiley, Teichoic acids and the molecular structure of bacterial walls
• 1966 Percy Wragg Brian, Obligate parasitism in fungi
• 1965 William Hayes, Some controversial aspects of bacterial sexuality
• 1964 Donald Devereux Woods, A pattern of research with two bacterial growth factors
• 1963 Norman Wingate Pirie, The size of small organisms
• 1962 Guido Pontecorvo, Microbial genetics: achievements and prospects
• 1961 Frank John Fenner, Interactions between poxviruses
• 1960 Andre Michel Lwoff, Viral functions
• 1959 Frederick Charles Bawden, Viruses: retrospect and prospect
• 1958 David Keilin, 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 Quastel, 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.