- Source: Bisset Hawkins Medal
The Bisset Hawkins Medal is a triennial award made by the Royal College of Physicians of London to acknowledge work done in the preceding ten years in advancing sanitary science or promoting public health. It is named after Francis Bisset Hawkins (1796–1884), a distinguished London physician and is presented after the Harveian Oration.
The medal, made of gold, was endowed by Captain Edward Wilmot Williams in 1896.
Medallists
Medallists have been:
1899: James Burn Russell
1902: William Henry Power
1905: Patrick Manson
1908: Sir Shirley Forster Murphy
1911: Clement Dukes
1914: Sir Ronald Ross for his researches on malaria
1917: Sir Arthur Newsholme
1920: Sir William Heaton Hamer
1923: Sir Thomas Morison Legge
1926: Sir Ambrose Thomas Stanton
1929: Sir Edward Mellanby
1932: Thomas Henry Craig Stevenson
1935: Sir George Newman
1938: Major Greenwood
1941: Sir Frederick Norton Kay Menzies
1944: Brigadier J. A. Sinton
1947: Christopher Howard Andrewes
1950: Sir William Wilson Jameson
1953: William Norman Pickles
1956: Graham Selby Wilson
1959: Percy Stocks
1962: Sir Richard Doll, for contributions to preventative medicine
1965: Sir George Edward Godber
1968: Charles Montague Fletcher
1971: Sir Derrick Melville Dunlop
1974: Patrick Joseph Lawther
1977: Major John Alistair Dudgeon
1980: Jeremy Noah Morris
1983: Abraham Manie Adelstein
1986: Geoffrey Arthur Rose
1989: Sir Donald Acheson
1992: Rosemary Rue
1995: Sir Kenneth Charles Calman
1998:
2001: Kay-Tee Khaw
2004: Michael Gideon Marmot
2007: John Britton
2010:
2013: Nicholas Finer
2016: Sir Ian Gilmore
2019: Dr Sarah R Anderson - for work to improve national TB Control
2022: Dr Deirdre Anne Buckley
See also
List of medicine awards
Prizes named after people