The George M. Kober Medal and Lectureship are two different awards by the
Association of American Physicians
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(AAP) in honor of one of its early presidents, George M. Kober. The George M. Kober Lectureship, is an honor given to an AAP member "for outstanding research contributions which have extraordinary impact on patients"; beginning in 1925, the Lectureship has been awarded every three years. The George M. Kober Medal, started in 1927, has, beginning in 1929, been awarded annually (except for 1944 and 1946) to an AAP member "whose lifetime efforts have had an enormous impact ..."
Simon Flexner
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, New York
* 1931:
Frederick George Novy
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Frederick George Novy (December 9, 1864 – August 8, 1957) was an American bacteriologist, organic chemist, and instructor.
Born in Chicago, Illinois, the third son of Joseph Novy and his wife Frances, grew up on the West Side, near t ...
Ludvig Hektoen
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, Chicago
* 1940:
William George MacCallum
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Lewis Thomas
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Thomas was born in Flushing, New York and attended Princeton University ...
, New York
* 1977:
Arno G. Motulsky
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Bengt Samuelsson
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Education a ...
Bert Vogelstein
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, Baltimore
* 1997:
Mark Keating
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, Salt Lake City
* 2000:
Francis Collins
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, Bethesda
* 2003:
Stanley Korsmeyer
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, Boston
* 2006:
Robert Lefkowitz
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Jean Bennett
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William H. Welch
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* 1930: James B. Herrick
* 1931: Henry Sewall
* 1932: Elliott P. Joslin
* 1933: Alfred N. Richards
* 1934:
John Jacob Abel
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Rufus Cole
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Edward C. Kendall
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David Marine
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* 1961:
Oswald Hope Robertson
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Isaac Starr
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* 1968:
Tinsley R. Harrison
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Walsh McDermott
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Lewis Thomas
Lewis Thomas (November 25, 1913 – December 3, 1993) was an American physician, poet, etymologist, essayist, administrator, educator, policy advisor, and researcher.
Thomas was born in Flushing, New York and attended Princeton University ...
Victor A. McKusick
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Helen Ranney
Helen Margaret Ranney (April 12, 1920 – April 5, 2010) was an American doctor and hematologist who made significant contributions to research on sickle-cell anemia.
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Ranney was born in Summer Hill, Cayuga County, New York, where ...
* 1998:
Eugene Braunwald
Eugene Braunwald (born August 15, 1929 in Vienna, Austria) is an Austrian-born American cardiologist.
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Braunwald was born to Jewish parents Wilhelm Braunwald and Clara Wallach in Vienna. He obtained his A.B. and M.D. at New York Univer ...
Michael Stuart Brown
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Robert Lefkowitz
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Francis Collins
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* 2016:
Peter Agre
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C. Ronald Kahn
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* 2020: Michael J. Welsh
* 2021: Jeffrey I. Gordon
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