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Leeuwenhoek Lecture
The Leeuwenhoek Lecture is a prize lecture of the Royal Society to recognize achievement in microbiology. The prize was originally given in 1950 and awarded annually, but from 2006 to 2018 was given triennially. From 2018 it will be awarded biennially. The prize is named after the Dutch microscopist Antonie van Leeuwenhoek and was instituted in 1948 from a bequest from George Gabb. A gift of £2000 is associated with the lecture. Leeuwenhoek Lecturers The following is a list of Leeuwenhoek Lecture award winners along with the title of their lecture: 21st Century * 2022 Sjors Scheres, ''for ground-breaking contributions and innovations in image analysis and reconstruction methods in electron cryo-microscopy, enabling the structure determination of complex macromolecules of fundamental biological and medical importance to atomic resolution'' * 2020 Geoffrey L. Smith, ''for his studies of poxviruses which has had major impact in wider areas, notably vaccine development, biotechnol ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Antonie Van Leeuwenhoek
Antonie Philips van Leeuwenhoek ( ; ; 24 October 1632 – 26 August 1723) was a Dutch microbiologist and microscopist in the Golden Age of Dutch science and technology. A largely self-taught man in science, he is commonly known as " the Father of Microbiology", and one of the first microscopists and microbiologists. Van Leeuwenhoek is best known for his pioneering work in microscopy and for his contributions toward the establishment of microbiology as a scientific discipline. Raised in Delft, Dutch Republic, van Leeuwenhoek worked as a draper in his youth and founded his own shop in 1654. He became well recognized in municipal politics and developed an interest in lensmaking. In the 1670s, he started to explore microbial life with his microscope. This was one of the notable achievements of the Golden Age of Dutch exploration and discovery (). Using single-lensed microscopes of his own design and make, van Leeuwenhoek was the first to observe and to experiment with ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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. Research His research has focussed on retroviruses, initially as a means of understanding T-cell leukemia and other cancers, which may be caused by retroviruses. A break-through discovery in 1971 was that the retroviral genome in chickens follows the rules of Mendelian inheritance.Arlene Judith Klotzko.Robin Weiss: Relentless retrovirus researcher. '' The Scientist'' 2002, 16(21):60. Later his work moved on to HIV, also a retrovirus, and made several new important discoveries, most notably identifying CD4 on lymphocytes as the binding receptor for HIV. Career Before becoming professor at UCL, Weiss was director at The Institute of Cancer Research, London, from 1980 until 1989, after which he continued as director of research for a further nine years. Until 2005, Weiss was editor-in-chie ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alfred Rupert Hall
Alfred Rupert Hall (1920–2009) 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. Life Hall was born near Stoke-on-Trent on 26 July 1920. He went to Christ's College, Cambridge, in 1938 to study history, but his studies were interrupted by war service. He completed his degree in 1946 and began postgraduate research. As a boy he had delighted in the history of inventions and devices, and the army had given him hands-on experience; his doctoral thesis which was on 17th-century ballistics was published as a book in 1952. In 1949 he was elected a fellow of Christ's College. Hall was unusual in coming to the discipline from history, not science, and his background would yield fresh and different perspectives in this new emerging field. Charles Singer, the first president of the British Society for the History of Science, was not alone in having suspicions abou ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Piet Borst
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John Skehel
Sir John James Skehel, (born 27 February 1941) is a British virologist and Emeritus scientist at the Francis Crick Institute in London. From 1987 to 2006 he was director of the National Institute of Medical Research (NIMR) at Mill Hill which was incorporated into the Crick Institute in 2016. Education and early life Skehel was born in Blackburn to Joseph and Annie Skehel in 1941, and was educated at St. Mary's College, Blackburn and subsequently went to the University of Aberystwyth where he obtained a BSc degree in agricultural biochemistry. He then completed his postgraduate study at the University of Manchester Institute of Science and Technology (UMIST), where he received his PhD degree in biochemistry in 1966 under the supervision of Alan Eddy, for research on cation transport in yeast. Career and research Following his doctorate, he was a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Aberdeen for research, continuing it at Duke University. In 1969 he returned to B ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Harry Smith (microbiologist)
Harry Smith (7 August 1921 – 10 December 2011) was a British microbiologist, and Professor of Microbiology, at the University of Birmingham. Life He was born in Northampton, the son of bookmaker Harry Smith, was educated at Northampton Grammar School and earned a degree in pharmacy at University College Nottingham in 1942. For the rest of the war he worked at Boots in Nottingham on the manufacture of pharmaceuticals, and was awarded a BSc in Chemistry by the University of London. In 1945, he was appointed assistant professor at University College, where he was awarded a PhD in biochemistry for the successful conclusion of a research project. In 1947 he became a researcher at the Microbiological Research Establishment at Porton Down. There he carried out research on the mechanisms of anthrax infection using live animals and its possible applications in chemical warfare. From 1965 to 1988, he was Chair of Microbiology at the University of Birmingham, subsequently becoming Eme ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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. Postgate's research in microbiology investigated nitrogen fixation, microbial survival, and sulphate-reducing bacteria. He worked for the Agricultural Research Council's Unit of Nitrogen Fixation from 1963 until he retired, by then its Director, in 1987. In 2011, he was described as a "father figure of British microbiology".Cole, Jeffrey, A., "Legless pathogens: how bacterial physiology provides the key to understanding pathogenicity", The Fred Griffith Prize Lecture 2011, reprinted in ''Microbiology'', 2012 Jun; 158(6):1402-13. PDF/ref> His admired popularizing book on microbes in human culture, ''Microbes and Man'', first published in 1969, remains in print. Education and early life John Raymond Postgate was born on 24 June 1922, as the elder son of the writer Raymond Postgate and Daisy Postgate, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fred Brown (virologist)
Fred Brown (31 January 1925 – 20 February 2004) was a British virologist and molecular biologist. Early life He was born in Clayton-le-Moors, Lancashire and lived in neighbouring Burnley, where he was educated at Burnley Grammar School and played cricket for Burnley Cricket Club. He went on to study at Manchester University, where he graduated B.Sc. in chemistry in 1944 and received a Ph.D. in 1946. Career He stayed at Manchester as an assistant lecturer for two years before taking a post as lecturer at the Bristol University Fruit and Vegetable Preservation Research Station (1948–50) followed by one as a senior scientific officer at the Hannah Dairy Research Institute, Ayr (1950–53). A succession of other appointments followed: senior scientific officer at Christie Hospital, Manchester (1953–55), head of the Biochemistry Department at the Animal Virus Research Institute, Pirbright (now the Institute for Animal Health) (1955–83) (deputy director (1980–83)) and head ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Keith Vickerman
Keith Vickerman FRS FRSE FMedSci (21 March 1933 – 28 June 2016) was a British zoologist born in Huddersfield, Yorkshire. He was Regius Professor of Zoology in the University of Glasgow, 1984–98.‘VICKERMAN, Prof. Keith’, Who's Who 2013, A & C Black, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing plc, 2013; online edn, Oxford University Press, Dec 2012 ; online edn, Nov 201accessed 12 July 2013/ref> He was awarded the Linnean Medal in 1996. A Fellow of the Academy of Medical Sciences, he was one of the organization's founding members. Vickerman was the one who made the discovery that antigenic variation could occur in eukaryotic cells Eukaryotes () are organisms whose cells have a nucleus. All animals, plants, fungi, and many unicellular organisms, are Eukaryotes. They belong to the group of organisms Eukaryota or Eukarya, which is one of the three domains of life. Bact ..., namely in protozoa. References 1933 births 2016 deaths Academics of the University of Gl ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Rodney Guest
John Rodney Guest, FRS (born 27 December 1935) is a British molecular microbiologist. He was born the son of Sidney Ramsey Guest in Leeds, West Yorkshire and educated at the University of Leeds (B.Sc. 1957) and Trinity College, Oxford (Ph.D. 1961). He worked as a Fellow at Oxford University from 1960 to 1965 and as a Fulbright Scholar at Stanford University in 1963–64. He was appointed Lecturer in Microbiology at the University of Sheffield from 1965 to 1968, Senior Lecturer and Reader from 1968 to 1981 and has been Professor of Microbiology at Sheffield since 1981. He is known for his work on the application of mutant and genetic approaches to define the biochemistry and genetic make-up of central anabolic and catabolic pathways of bacteria, in particular the citric acid cycle and related functions in both aerobic and anaerobic metabolism. In 1986 he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society and delivered their Leeuwenhoek Lecture The Leeuwenhoek Lecture is a prize lecture ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Julian Davies (microbiologist)
Julian Edmund Davies FRS (born January 1932) is a British microbiologist, professor emeritus, and Principal Investigator of the Davies Lab, at University of British Columbia. Education and personal life Born in January 1932, Davies earned a B.Sc. in 1953 and a Ph.D. in 1956 from the University of Nottingham. Career His research focuses on the interaction of small molecules, and especially antibiotics, with bacteria. He made important advances in understanding how antibiotics worked and how bacteria become resistant to them, especially the origin of genes for resistance. Publications He is the author or co-author of several hundred scientific papers and at least 6 books. Awards and honours He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1994 and is also a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada and a Foreign Member of the US National Academy of Sciences. He is a former president of the American Society for Microbiology. He is a member of the Faculty of 1000. He has received t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Peter Biggs
Peter Biggs was the senior special effects technician for the movie Who Framed Roger Rabbit and a number of Hollywood films during the 1980s. Filmography * A Kiss Before Dying (1991) – Special effects technician * Who Framed Roger Rabbit (1988) – Senior special effects * Amsterdamned (1988) * Labyrinth (1986) – Special effects technician * Supergirl (1984) – Special effects technician * Krull (1983) – Special effects technician * Superman (1978) – Special effects technician * The Man with the Golden Gun (1974) * Live and Let Die (1973) * Alice's adventures in Wonderland ''Alice's Adventures in Wonderland'' (commonly ''Alice in Wonderland'') is an 1865 English novel by Lewis Carroll. It details the story of a young girl named Alice who falls through a rabbit hole into a fantasy world of anthropomorphic creature ... (1972) * 2001 Space Odyssey (1965) References * External links * Possibly living people Special effects people Year of birth missing [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
