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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 * 2024 Joanne Webster, ''for her achievements in advancing control of disease in humans and animals caused by parasites in Asia and Africa'' * 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'' ... [...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 art, 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. Using single-lensed microscopes of his own design and make, Van Leeuwenhoek was the first to observe and to experiment with microbes, which he originally referred to as , or . He was the first to relatively determine t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Stephen C
Stephen or Steven is an English first name. It is particularly significant to Christians, as it belonged to Saint Stephen ( ), an early disciple and deacon who, according to the Book of Acts, was stoned to death; he is widely regarded as the first martyr (or " protomartyr") of the Christian Church. The name, in both the forms Stephen and Steven, is often shortened to Steve or Stevie. In English, the female version of the name is Stephanie. Many surnames are derived from the first name, including Stephens, Stevens, Stephenson, and Stevenson, all of which mean "Stephen's (son)". In modern times the name has sometimes been given with intentionally non-standard spelling, such as Stevan or Stevon. A common variant of the name used in English is Stephan ( ); related names that have found some currency or significance in English include Stefan (pronounced or in English), Esteban (often pronounced ), and the Shakespearean Stephano ( ). Origins The name "Stephen" ( ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Piet Borst
Piet Borst CBE (born 5 July 1934, in Amsterdam) is emeritus professor of clinical biochemistry and molecular biology at the University of Amsterdam (UVA), and until 1999 director of research and chairman of the board of directors of the Netherlands Cancer Institute and the Antoni van Leeuwenhoekziekenhuis (NKI-AVL). He continued to work at the NKI-AVL as a staff member and group leader until 2016. Career Piet Borst studied medicine in Amsterdam from 1952 to 1958 and completed his internships in 1961-1962. He received his PhD for an investigation of tumor mitochondria (Supervisor Edward Slater). He then moved to New York City, where he worked with fellow post-doc Charles Weissmann on replication of bacteriophages in the lab of Nobel laureate Severo Ochoa at the New York University School of Medicine. In 1965, he became professor of Biochemistry at the University of Amsterdam and head of the section for Medical Enzymology and Molecular Biology of the Biochemistry Department. From ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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 ... [...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". 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, née Lansbury, private secretary to her father George Lansbury, the politician who was Labour Party Leader of the Opposition 1932-35. He had one brother, Oliver Postgate, later a well-known animator and producer for ... [...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 a 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)) ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Keith Vickerman
Keith Vickerman 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, namely in protozoa Protozoa (: protozoan or protozoon; alternative plural: protozoans) are a polyphyletic group of single-celled eukaryotes, either free-living or parasitic, that feed on organic matter such as other microorganisms or organic debris. Historically .... References 1933 births 2016 deaths Academics of the University of Glasgow British zoologists Fellows of the Royal Societ ... [...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 (January 1932 – February 2025) was a British-born microbiologist and Professor Emeritus in the Department of Microbiology and Immunology at the University of British Columbia. Education and personal life Davies was born in Wales in January 1932. He earned a B.Sc. in 1953 (Chemistry) and a Ph.D. in 1956 (Organic Chemistry), both from the University of Nottingham. He then did post-doctoral work, first at Columbia University in New York, working on natural products chemistry under Gilbert Stork, and then at the University of Wisconsin under Eugene van Tamelen. Death Davies died on 2 February 2025, near Vancouver, B.C. Career Positions held Davies began his independent professional life in 1959 as a lecturer in the Department of Chemistry at the Manchester College of Science and Technology. This was followed by research associate positions at Harvard Medical School from 1962 to 1965 (with Bernard Davis) and at the Institute Pasteur from 1965 to 1967 (with F ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Peter Martin Biggs
Peter Martin Biggs FRS (13 August 1926 — 27 December 2021) was a British scientist who specialised in avian infectious disease. He is known particularly for his work on Marek's disease in poultry, and the development of a vaccine for the virus-caused disease. Peter grew up in Hampshire, but was evacuated to Harvard, Massachusetts in 1940 for four years. Upon returning to the UK, he joined the RAF, before turning his interests to animals, becoming a veterinary student at Royal Veterinary College, London. His research career was then initiated with a PhD at Bristol University, studying cancer and domestic fowl. Peter joined the Houghton Poultry Research Station in 1959 (later becoming Director in 1973), where he followed his interest in viruses and cancer. Here he recognised that avian leukosis was composed of two diseases: Marek's disease and lymphoid leukosis. Study of Marek's disease and the underlying virus would lead to a successful vaccine. Upon the closure of Houghton in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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George may refer to: Names * George (given name) * George (surname) People * George (singer), American-Canadian singer George Nozuka, known by the mononym George * George Papagheorghe, also known as Jorge / GEØRGE * George, stage name of Giorgio Moroder * George, son of Andrew I of Hungary Places South Africa * George, South Africa, a city ** George Airport United States * George, Iowa, a city * George, Missouri, a ghost town * George, Washington, a city * George County, Mississippi * George Air Force Base, a former U.S. Air Force base located in California Computing * George (algebraic compiler) also known as 'Laning and Zierler system', an algebraic compiler by Laning and Zierler in 1952 * GEORGE (computer), early computer built by Argonne National Laboratory in 1957 * GEORGE (operating system), a range of operating systems (George 1–4) for the ICT 1900 range of computers in the 1960s * GEORGE (programming language), an autocode system invented by Charles Leonard Hamblin ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
