The Bisset Hawkins Medal is a triennial award made by the Royal College of Physicians 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 (1796–1884), a distinguished London physician and is presented after the Harveian Oration. The medal, made of gold, was endowed by Captain Edward Wilmot Williams in 1896.
Medallists Medallists have been:
1899: James Burn Russell 1902: William Henry Power 1905: Patrick Manson 1908: Sir Shirley Forster Murphy 1911: Clement Dukes 1914: Sir Ronald Ross for his researches on malaria 1917: Sir Arthur Newsholme 1920: Sir William Heaton Hamer 1923: Sir Thomas Morison Legge 1926: Sir Ambrose Thomas Stanton 1929: Sir Edward Mellanby 1932: Thomas Henry Craig Stevenson 1935: Sir George Newman 1938: Major Greenwood 1941: Sir Frederick Norton Kay Menzies 1944: Brigadier J. A. Sinton 1947: Christopher Howard Andrewes 1950: Sir William Wilson Jameson 1953: William Norman Pickles 1956: Graham Selby Wilson 1959: Percy Stocks 1962: Sir Richard Doll, for contributions to preventative medicine 1965: Sir George Edward Godber 1968: Charles Montague Fletcher 1971: Sir Derrick Melville Dunlop 1974: Patrick Joseph Lawther 1977: Major John Alistair Dudgeon 1980: Jeremy Noah Morris 1983: Abraham Manie Adelstein 1986: Geoffrey Arthur Rose 1989: Sir Donald Acheson 1992: Rosemary Rue 1995: Sir Kenneth Charles Calman 1998: 2001: Kay-Tee Khaw 2004: Michael Gideon Marmot 2007: John Britton 2010: 2013: Nicholas Finer 2016: Sir Ian Gilmore 2019: Dr Sarah R Anderson - for work to improve national TB Control 2022: Dr Deirdre Anne Buckley 2025: Prof Neeraj Bhala
See also List of medicine awards Prizes named after people
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