The Bisset Hawkins Medal is a triennial award made by 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 ...
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
Francis Bisset Hawkins, FRSFRCP(18 October 1796 – 7 December 1894) was an English physician.
He was born the son of Adair Hawkins, a London surgeon and educated at Eton College and Exeter College, Oxford, gaining BA in 1818, MA in 1821, MB in 1 ...
(1796–1884), a distinguished London physician and is presented after the
Harveian Oration
The Harveian Oration is a yearly lecture held at the Royal College of Physicians of London. It was instituted in 1656 by William Harvey, discoverer of the systemic circulation. Harvey made financial provision for the college to hold an annual feas ...
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The medal, made of gold, was endowed by Captain Edward Wilmot Williams in 1896.
Patrick Manson
Sir Patrick Manson (3 October 1844 – 9 April 1922) was a Scottish physician who made important discoveries in parasitology, and was a founder of the field of tropical medicine. He graduated from University of Aberdeen with degrees in Master ...
* 1908: Sir
* 1911:
Clement Dukes
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People
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* Clément, French Guiana, a town
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* 1914: Sir
Ronald Ross
Sir Ronald Ross (13 May 1857 – 16 September 1932) was a British medical doctor who received the Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine in 1902 for his work on the transmission of malaria, becoming the first British Nobel laureate, and the ...
Ambrose Thomas Stanton
Sir Ambrose Thomas Stanton (14 November 1875 – 25 January 1938) was a Canadian surgeon, entomologist and health administrator who helped to identify the cause of beri-beri. He later became Chief Medical Adviser to the British Secretary of State ...
* 1929: Sir
Edward Mellanby
Sir Edward Mellanby (8 April 1884 – 30 January 1955) was a British biochemist and nutritionist who discovered vitamin D and its role in preventing rickets in 1919.
Education
Mellanby was born in West Hartlepool, the son of a shipyard owner, ...
Major Greenwood
Major Greenwood Fellow of the Royal Society, FRS (9 August 1880 – 5 October 1949) was an English epidemiologist and statistician.
Biography
Major Greenwood junior was born in Shoreditch in East End of London, London's East End, the only chil ...
Richard Doll
Sir William Richard Shaboe Doll (28 October 1912 – 24 July 2005) was a British physician who became an epidemiologist in the mid-20th century and made important contributions to that discipline. He was a pioneer in research linking smoking ...
Ian Gilmore
Sir Ian Thomas Gilmore DL PRCP (born 1947) is a professor of hepatology and previous president of the Royal College of Physicians of London (PRCP).
He was educated at the Royal Grammar School, Newcastle, trained at Cambridge University and St ...
See also
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List of medicine awards
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Prizes named after people
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