Leeuwenhoek Lecture
Appearance
The Leeuwenhoek Lecture is a prize lecture of the Royal Society given anually on the subject of microbiology. It is named after the Dutch microscopist Antony van Leeuwenhoek and was instituted in 1979.
Leeuwenhoek Lecturers
21st Century
- 2006 Tony Crowther
- 2005 Keith Chater
- 2004 David Sherratt
- 2003 Brian Spratt
- 2002 Stephen West
- 2001 Robin Weiss
20th Century
- 2000 Howard Dalton
- 1999 Peter Doherty
- 1998 George A.M. Cross
- 1997 Peter Biggs
- 1996 Julian Davies
- 1995 John Guest
- 1994 Keith Vickerman
- 1993 Fred Brown
- 1992 John Postgate
- 1991 Harry Smith
- 1990 John Skehel
- 1989 Piet Borst
- 1988 Alfred Rupert Hall
- 1987 David Alan Hopwood
- 1986 William Fleming Hoggan Jarrett
- 1985 Kenneth Murray
- 1984 William Duncan Paterson Stewart
- 1983 Michael Anthony Epstein
- 1982 Hamao Umezawa
- 1981 Frank William Ernest Gibson
- 1980 David Arthur John Tyrrell
- 1979 Patricia Hannah Clarke
- 1978 Hugh John Forster Cairns
- 1977 Francois Jacob
- 1976 Geoffrey Herbert Beale
- 1975 Joel Mandelstam
- 1974 Renato Dulbecco
- 1973 Aaron Klug
- 1972 Hans Leo Kornberg
- 1971 Michael George Parke Stoker
- 1970 Philip Herries Gregory
- 1969 Jacques Lucien Monod
- 1968 Gordon Elliott Fogg
- 1967 James Baddiley
- 1966 Percy Wragg Brian
- 1965 William Hayes
- 1964 Donald Devereux Woods
- 1963 Norman Wingate Pirie
- 1962 Guido Pontecorvo
- 1961 Frank John Fenner
- 1960 Andre Michel Lwoff
- 1959 Frederick Charles Bawden
- 1958 David Keilin
- 1957 Wilson Smith
- 1956 Ernest Frederick Gale
- 1955 Henry Gerard Thornton
- 1954 Juda Hirsch Quastel
- 1953 Kenneth Manley Smith
- 1952 Albert Jan Kluyver
- 1951 Christopher Howard Andrewes
- 1950 Paul Gordon Fildes