The Croonian Medal and Lecture is a prestigious award, a medal, and lecture given at the invitation of the

Royal Society The Royal Society, formally The Royal Society of London for Improving Natural Knowledge, is a learned society and the United Kingdom's national academy of sciences. The society fulfils a number of roles: promoting science and its benefits, re ...

and the

Royal College of Physicians The Royal College of Physicians (RCP) is a British professional membership body dedicated to improving the practice of medicine, chiefly through the accreditation of physicians by examination. Founded by royal charter from King Henry VIII in 1 ...

. Among the papers of William Croone at his death in 1684, was a plan to endow a single lectureship at both the

and the

. His wife provided the bequest in 1701 specifying that it was "for the support of a lecture and illustrative experiment for the advancement of natural knowledge on locomotion, or (conditionally) of such other subjects as, in the opinion of the President for the time being, should be most useful in promoting the objects for which the Royal Society was instituted". One lecture was to be delivered by a Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians and the other, on the nature and laws of muscular motion, to be delivered before the Royal Society. The Royal Society lecture series began in 1738 and that of the Royal College of Physicians in 1749. ebook Croone became an original Fellow of the Royal Society in May 1663. He also became a Fellow of the College of Physicians on 29 July 1675. He was appointed lecturer on anatomy at Surgeons' hall in 1670 and pursued research in several important subjects of his day, including respiration, muscular motion, and generation. One individual, Sir Stephen O’Rahilly FRS, FRCP has received the award twice: initially from the Royal College of Physicians in 2011, and then from the Royal Society in 2022 (below).

List of lecturers (Royal Society – for RCP lecturers see below)

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List of Lecturers (Royal College of Physicians)

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*2018

Rebecca Fitzgerald Rebecca Clare Fitzgerald (born September 1968) is a British medical researcher (born September 1968) whose work focuses on the early detection and treatment of oesophageal cancers. She is a tenured Professor of Cancer Prevention and Program Lea ...

, ''Precision early diagnosis of oesophageal cancer using a pill on a string'' *2017

Jonathan Ashmore Jonathan Felix Ashmore (born 1948) is a British physicist and Bernard Katz Professor of Biophysics at University College London. Early life and education He is the son of Rosalie Crutchley who played Madame Defarge in A Tale of Two Cities. Ash ...

, for his research into hearing; his analysis of cochlear hair cells has revolutionised our understanding of how the ear works. *2016

Pamela Shaw Dame Pamela Jean Shaw is a British consultant neurologist, and professor of neurology at the University of Sheffield. She is the founder and director of the Sheffield Institute for Translational Neuroscience (SITraN), and in 2019 was appointed to ...

, ''Translational neuroscience approach to developing new effective treatments for Motor Neurone Disease'' *2015 *2014 *2013 Peter Openshaw, ''Disease mechanisms revealed by studies of pandemic influenza'' *2012

Marc Feldmann Sir Marc Feldmann, (born 2 December 1944), is an Australian-educated British immunologist. He is a professor at the University of Oxford and a senior research fellow at Somerville College, Oxford. Biography Feldmann was born 2 December 1944 ...

, ''Development of anti cytokine therapy and its future potential'' *2011

Stephen O'Rahilly Sir Stephen Patrick O'Rahilly (born 1 April 1958) is an Irish-British physician and scientist known for his research into the molecular pathogenesis of human obesity, insulin resistance and related metabolic and endocrine disorders. Education ...

, ''Obesity and its metabolic consequences: lessons from the extremes'' *2010 Sir

Gordon Duff Sir Gordon William Duff, (born 27 December 1947) is a British medical scientist and academic. He was Principal of St Hilda's College, Oxford, from 2014 to 2021. He was Lord Florey Professor of Molecular Medicine at the University of Sheffiel ...

, ''Challenges in the development of innovative medicines'' *2009 Peter John Barnes, ''Reversing steroid resistance in inflammatory diseases: a novel therapeutic strategy'' *2008 Martin Neil Rossor, ''Dementia – global or modular?'' *2007 Peter J. Goadsby, ''Bench to bedside: headache 2007'' *2006 Peter John Ratcliffe, ''Understanding hypoxia signalling in cells; a new therapeutic opportunity?'' *2005 David A. Lomas, ''Molecular mousetraps, a -antitrypsin deficiency and the serpinopathies'' *2004 Alastair Compston, ''The marvellous harmony of the nervous parts':The origins of multiple sclerosis'' *2003 David Barker, ''Coronary heart disease and type 2 diabetes: disorders of growth'' *2002 Humphrey Hodgson, ''Liver cells – biology to therapeutics'' *2001 Elwyn Elias, ''Hepato-canalicular cholestasis – its mechanisms, causes and consequences'' *2000 John Connell, ''Regulation of the corticosteroid phenotype in humans – implications in the pathogenesis of asthma''

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19th century

18th century

References

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