The Marjory Stephenson Prize is the principal prize of the

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, awarded for an outstanding contribution of current importance in microbiology.

Marjory Stephenson Marjory Stephenson (24 January 1885 – 12 December 1948) was a British biochemist. In 1945, she was one of the first two women elected a Fellow of the Royal Society, the other being Kathleen Lonsdale. She wrote ''Bacterial Metabolism'' (1930 ...

was the second president of the Microbiology Society (1947 - 1949) and a distinguished pioneer of chemical microbiology.

Recipients

Source
Microbiology Society
*1953 Donald Devereux Woods, ''The Integration of Research on the Nutrition and Metabolism of Micro-organisms'' *1955 Cornelius Van Niel, ''Natural Selection in the Microbial World'' *1957

André Michel Lwoff André Michel Lwoff (8 May 1902 – 30 September 1994) was a French microbiologist and Nobel laureate of Russian-Polish origin. Education, early life and career Lwoff was born in Ainay-le-Château, Allier, in Auvergne, France, the son of Marie ( ...

, ''The Concept of Virus'' *1959 G.S. Wilson, ''Faults and Fallacies in Microbiology'' *1961 Bert C.J.G. Knight, ''The Growth of Microbiology'' *1963 M. Robertson, ''Some Aspects of the Protozoa and Their Way of Life'' *1965 Sir

Christopher Andrewes Sir Christopher Howard Andrewes (7 June 1896 – 31 December 1988) was a British virologist who discovered the human influenza A virus in 1933. Education Andrewes was educated at Highgate School and later studied medicine at St Bartholome ...

, ''The Troubles of a Virus'' *1967 Sidney Reuben Elsden, ''Energy Relations and Fermentations, 1930–1967'' *1969

Jacques Monod Jacques Lucien Monod (February 9, 1910 – May 31, 1976) was a French biochemist who won the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1965, sharing it with François Jacob and André Lwoff "for their discoveries concerning genetic control of en ...

, ''The Bacterial Cell as a Cybernetic System'' *1971 Ernest Frederick Gale, ''Don't Talk to Me about Permeability'' *1973

Renato Dulbecco Renato Dulbecco ( , ; February 22, 1914 – February 19, 2012) was an Italian–American virologist who won the 1975 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for his work on oncoviruses, which are viruses that can cause cancer when they infect anima ...

, ''Cell Transformation by Viruses and the Role of Viruses in Cancer'' *1975 Ephraim Saul Anderson, ''Push Hard - or How to Promote Resistance'' *1977 Jean-Marie Ghuysen, ''The Concept of the Penicillin Target from 1965 until Today'' *1979 D. Herbert, ''These Narrow Engines...'' *1981

Patricia H. Clarke Patricia Hannah Clarke FRS (née Green) (29 July 1919 – 28 January 2010) was a British biochemist. Education and early life Clarke was born in Pontypridd, South Wales, and was educated at Howell's School, Llandaff, from 1930 to 1937, befor ...

, '' Adaptation'' *1983 Milton R.J. Salton, ''From Walls to Membranes'' *1985

Peter Wildy Norman Peter Leete Wildy (31 March 1920 – 10 March 1987) was a 20th-century British virologist who was an expert on the herpes simplex virus. Education and personal life He was born in Tunbridge Wells in Kent on 31 March 1920 the son of Eric ...

, ''Little Fleas and Lesser Fleas'' *1987 David A.J. Tyrrell, ''The Common Cold - My Favourite Infection'' *1990

Paul M. Nurse Sir Paul Maxime Nurse (born 25 January 1949) is an English geneticist, former President of the Royal Society and Chief Executive and Director of the Francis Crick Institute. He was awarded the 2001 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine along ...

(now Sir Paul), ''On Fission'' *1992 John R. Guest, ''Oxygen-regulated Gene Expression in E. coli'' *1994 Anthony P.J. (Tony) Trinci, ''Evolution of the Quorn Myco-protein Fungus Fusarium graminearum'' *1996 Keith Gull, ''Oneness and Otherness in Eukaryotic Microbes'' *1998 Rudolf Thauer, ''Biochemistry of Methanogenesis'' *2000 D. W. Holden, ''In vivo Genetic Analysis of Salmonella Virulence'' *2002 Stewart Thomas Cole, ''Comparative and Functional Genomics of Mycobacterium tuberculosis'' *2004

Stanley Falkow Stanley "Stan" Falkow (January 24, 1934 – May 5, 2018) was an American microbiologist and a professor of microbiology at Georgetown University, University of Washington, and Stanford University School of Medicine. Falkow is known as the father ...

, ''Thoughts on Persistent Bacterial Infections'' *2006 Sir

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 ...

, ''Invasion by Influenza Viruses'' *2008 Alan B. Rickinson, ''Studies with an Oncogenic Virus: How to Survive a Lifetime with EBV'' *2010 Jan Tommassen, ''Assembly of outer membrane proteins in bacteria and mitochondria'' *2012

Yuan Chang Yuan Chang (; born 17 November 1959) is a Taiwanese-American virologist and pathologist who co-discovered together with her husband, Patrick S. Moore, the Kaposi's sarcoma-associated herpesvirus (KSHV) and Merkel cell polyomavirus, two of the s ...

Patrick S. Moore Patrick S. Moore (born October 21, 1956) is an Irish and American virologist and epidemiologist who co-discovered together with his wife, Yuan Chang, two different human viruses causing the AIDS-related cancer Kaposi's sarcoma and the skin cancer ...

, ''Old Themes and New Variations in Human Tumor Virology'' *2014

Laura Piddock Laura Piddock is a microbiologist, specialising in antibiotics and antibiotic resistance in bacteria. She is Professor Emeritus at the University of Birmingham, UK and also Scientific Director within the Global Antibiotic Research and Developme ...

, ''Understanding the Basis of Antibiotic Resistance as a Platform for Early Drug Discovery'' *2015

Robin Weiss Robert Anthony "Robin" Weiss (born 20 February 1940) is a British molecular biologist, Professor of Viral Oncology at University College London and a member of the Nuffield Council on Bioethics. Research His research has focussed on retroviruses, ...

, ''What's the host and what's the microbe?'' *2016

Steve Oliver Steve Oliver (born January 11, 1962) is an American musician, guitarist, vocalist, songwriter, and producer. Although best known for his work in the field of contemporary or “smooth” jazz, he performs in a wide variety of styles including ...

, ''Petri plates to Petri nets: the path to systems microbiology'' *2017 Stephen Busby FRS, ''Transcription activation in bacteria: ancient and modern'' *2018 Geoffrey L Smith FRS, ''Vaccinia virus: a portrait of a poxvirus'' *2019

Gordon Dougan Gordon Dougan is a Professor in the Department of Medicine at the University of Cambridge and head of pathogen research and a member of the board of management at the Wellcome Sanger Institute in Cambridge, United Kingdom. He is also a Fellow of ...

, ''Putting Genomics into Action'' *2021

Martin C. J. Maiden Martin Christopher James Maiden is an English microbiologist. He is Professor of Molecular Epidemiology in the Department of Zoology at the University of Oxford, where he is also a fellow of Hertford College. He was elected a Fellow of the Roya ...

, for translating basic science into practical public health benefits, especially vaccination, and food safety. *2023

Sharon Peacock Sharon Jayne Peacock (born 24 March 1959) is a British microbiologist who is Professor of Public Health and Microbiology in the Department of Medicine at the University of Cambridge. Peacock also sits on Cambridge University Council. Peacock ...

for applying the

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of pathogen genomes to clinical and public health microbiology including of

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. In 1988, the Marjory Stephenson Memorial Lecture was renamed the Marjory Stephenson Prize Lecture. Copies of most of these lectures can be found on th
Microbiology Society webpage

References

* https://www.microbiologysociety.org/grants-prizes/prize-lectures.html * https://www.microbiologysociety.org/grants/prize-lectures/marjory-stephenson-prize-lecture.html Biology awards British science and technology awards Awards established in 1953

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