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{{Short description|Medal awarded by the Royal Society}}
{{about|the Royal Society award||Dennis Gabor Award (disambiguation)}}
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The '''Gabor Medal''' is a medal awarded by the [[Royal Society]] every alternate year for "acknowledged distinction of interdisciplinary work between the life sciences with other disciplines".<ref name="rs">{{cite web|url=https://royalsociety.org/grants-schemes-awards/awards/gabor-medal/ |title=Gabor Medal |publisher=The Royal Society|access-date=2017-01-31}}</ref> The medal was created in 1989 to honour the memory of physicist [[Dennis Gabor]], and was originally awarded biennially.<ref name="rs"/> Initially awarded "for acknowledged distinction of work in the life sciences, particularly in the fields of [[genetic engineering]] and [[molecular biology]]", the criteria for the awarding of the medal was later changed to its current definition.<ref name="rs"/> The medal is targeted at "emerging early to mid career stage scientist[s]" and is accompanied by a £2000 prize (since 2017, earlier £1000).<ref name="rs"/> It was first awarded in 1989 to [[Noreen Murray]] for her pioneering work in genetic engineering.<ref name="rs"/> From 2017 it has been awarded annually.
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[[File:Dennis Gabor 1971b.jpg|thumb|alt=Black-and-white photographic portrait of Dennis Gabor|Dennis Gabor ''(pictured in 1971)'']]
The '''Gabor Medal''' is [[Awards, lectures and medals of the Royal Society|one of the medals]] awarded by the [[Royal Society]]<ref>{{Cite book |title=StarGuides Plus {{endash}} A World-Wide Directory of Organizations in Astronomy and Related Space Sciences |publisher=[[Springer Publishing]] |year=2013 |isbn=978-0-306-48602-9 |pages=566}}</ref> for "acknowledged distinction of interdisciplinary work between the life sciences with other disciplines".<ref name="rs">{{cite web|title=Gabor Medal|url=https://royalsociety.org/grants-schemes-awards/awards/gabor-medal/|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180719143426/https://royalsociety.org/grants-schemes-awards/awards/gabor-medal/|archive-date=19 July 2018|access-date=26 February 2022|publisher=[[Royal Society]]}}</ref>

The medal was created in 1989 to honor the memory of physicist [[Dennis Gabor]], and was originally awarded biennially.<ref>{{Cite book |title=Year-book of the Royal Society of London |publisher=[[Harrison and Sons]] |year=2005 |volume=110 |pages=372}}</ref> Initially awarded "for acknowledged distinction of work in the life sciences, particularly in the fields of [[genetic engineering]] and [[molecular biology]]", the criteria for the awarding of the medal was later changed to its current definition. It is made of silver.<ref name="rs" /> The medal is targeted at "emerging early to mid career stage scientist[s]" and is accompanied by a £2000 prize since 2017. Before that, it accompanied with a prize of £1000. From 2017 it has been awarded annually. All citizens who have been residents of either [[United Kingdom]], [[Commonwealth of Nations]], or the [[Republic of Ireland]] for more than three years are eligible for the medal.<ref name="rs" />

The Gabor Medal was first awarded in 1989 to [[Noreen Murray]] for her pioneering work in genetic engineering.<ref name = ":Murray" /> As of February 2022, the latest recipient of the Gabor Medal is [[Peter Donnelly]].<ref name = ":latest" />


== List of recipients ==
== List of recipients ==
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|+ {{sronly|List of recipients of the Gabor Medal}}
|+ Gabor Medal recipients
! scope="col" | Year
! scope="col" | Year
!scope=col class="unsortable" |Portrait
! scope="col" | Recipient
!scope="col" | Name
! scope="col" | Nationality
!scope=col class="unsortable" | Citation
! scope="col" class="unsortable"| Rationale
!scope=col class="unsortable" | {{Abbr|Ref.|Reference}}
! scope="col" class="unsortable"| {{Abbr|Ref|Reference}}
|-
|-
| scope="row" | 1989
|1989
! scope="row" | {{sortname|Noreen|Murray}}
| [[File:Noreen Murray (cropped).jpg|frameless|120px|alt=Black-and-white photographic portrait of Noreen Murray]]
| British
| {{Sortname|Noreen|Murray}}
| align=left | "in recognition of her pioneering work in the field of genetic engineering, in particular for her development of the [[bacteriophage lambda]] system as a cloning vector for the expression of foreign proteins in [[E. coli|''E. coli'']]"
|"in recognition of her pioneering work in the field of genetic engineering, in particular for her development of the [[bacteriophage lambda]] system as a cloning [vector?] into which could be incorporated DNA fragments of over 5 kilobases in length"||<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.acaffairs.ed.ac.uk/Committees/Senate/Meetings/200102/20011212/SM-Murray.pdf |title=Special Minute: Noreen E Murray F.R.S |publisher=University of Edinburgh |access-date=2009-02-05 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090320002128/http://www.acaffairs.ed.ac.uk/Committees/Senate/Meetings/200102/20011212/SM-Murray.pdf |archive-date=March 20, 2009 }}</ref>
|<ref name = ":Murray" >{{Cite book|url=https://www.google.co.in/books/edition/Proceedings_of_the_Royal_Society_of_Lond/Xna1AAAAIAAJ?hl=en|title=Proceedings of the Royal Society of London|publisher=[[Royal Society]]|year=1990|volume=427–428|pages=253|access-date=20 February 2022|via=[[Google Books]]|issue=A|archive-date=25 February 2022|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220225211752/https://www.google.co.in/books/edition/Proceedings_of_the_Royal_Society_of_Lond/Xna1AAAAIAAJ?hl=en|url-status=live}}</ref>
|-
|-
| scope="row" | 1991
|1991
! scope="row" | {{sortname|Alan|Fersht}}
| [[File:Alan Fersht.jpg|frameless|120px|alt=Photographic portrait of Alan Fersht]]
| British
| {{Sortname|Alan|Fersht}}
| align=left | "in recognition of his pioneering work in the use of [[protein engineering]] to study protein structure and enzyme function"
|"in recognition of his pioneering work in the use of [[protein engineering]] to study protein structure and enzyme function"||<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.trin.cam.ac.uk/tcss/fersht210205.html|archive-url=https://archive.today/20080229181007/http://www.trin.cam.ac.uk/tcss/fersht210205.html|url-status=dead|archive-date=2008-02-29|title=Trinity College Science Society - Prof Sir Alan Fersht FRS |publisher=Trinity College Science Society|access-date=2009-02-05}}</ref>
|<ref>{{Cite journal|last=Atiyah|first=Michael|date=1992|title=Address of the President, Sir Michael Atiyah, Given at the Anniversary Meeting on 29 November 1991|journal=[[Notes and Records]]|publisher=[[Royal Society]]|page=167|jstor=531447}}</ref>
|-
|-
| scope="row" | 1993
|1993
! scope="row" | {{sortname|Charles|Weissmann}}
| [[File:Charles Weissmann.jpg|frameless|120px|alt=Photographic portrait of Charles Weissmann]]
| Swiss
| {{Sortname|Charles|Weissmann}}
| align=left | "in recognition of his many contributions to molecular biology, including his innovative analysis of coliphage Q-beta by the introduction of methods for making site-specific mutations, and the cloning and expression of [[alpha-interferon]] genes in bacteria"
|"in recognition of his many contributions to molecular biology, including his innovative analysis of coliphage Q-beta by the introduction of methods for making site-specific mutations, and the cloning and expression of [[alpha-interferon]] genes in bacteria"||align=center|—
| <ref>{{Cite web|title=Charles Weissmann|url=https://royalsociety.org/people/charles-weissmann-12507/|url-status=live|access-date=26 February 2022|publisher=[[Royal Society]]|archive-date=12 January 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210112060920/https://royalsociety.org/people/charles-weissmann-12507/}}</ref>
|-
|-
| scope="row" | 1995
|1995
! scope="row" | {{sortname|David|Hopwood}}
| —
| British
| {{Sortname|David|Hopwood}}
| align=left | "in recognition of his pioneering and leading the growing field of the genetics of [[Streptomyces]], and for developing the programming of the pervasive process of [[polyketide]] synthesis"
|"in recognition of his pioneering and leading the growing field of the genetics of [[Streptomyces]], and for developing the programming of the pervasive process of [[polyketide]] synthesis"||<ref>{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=neKm1X6YPY0C&q=%22David+Hopwood%22+gabor+medal&pg=PA753|title=The International Who's Who 2004|year=2003|publisher=Routledge|isbn=9781857432176|access-date=2009-02-05}}</ref>
|<ref>{{Cite web|title=David Hopwood|url=https://royalsociety.org/people/david-hopwood-11642/|url-status=live|access-date=26 February 2022|publisher=[[Royal Society]]|archive-date=24 November 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151124094729/https://royalsociety.org/people/david-hopwood-11642/}}</ref>
|-
|-
| scope="row" | 1997
|1997
! scope="row" | {{sortname|Kenneth|Holmes|}}
| —
| British
| {{Sortname|Kenneth|Holmes|}}
| align=left | "in recognition of his achievements in molecular biology, in particular his pioneering analyses of biological structures and viruses, and his development of the use of [[synchrotron radiation]] for X-ray diffraction experiments, now a widely used technique not only in molecular biology but in physics and materials science"
|"in recognition of his achievements in molecular biology, in particular his pioneering analyses of biological structures and viruses, and his development of the use of [[synchrotron radiation]] for X-ray diffraction experiments, now a widely used technique not only in molecular biology but in physics and materials science"||<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.mpg.de/english/illustrationsDocumentation/multimedia/mpResearch/2001/heft03/mpr01_3_052_055.pdf|title=Fascinating Research|publisher=Max Planck Research|access-date=2009-02-05}}</ref>
|<ref>{{Cite magazine|date=12 September 1997|title=Awards|url=https://www.timeshighereducation.com/features/awards/102820.article|url-status=live|magazine=[[Times Higher Education]]|access-date=26 February 2022|url-access=subscription|archive-date=27 April 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190427182503/https://www.timeshighereducation.com/features/awards/102820.article}}</ref>
|-
|-
| scope="row" | 1999
|1999
| [[File:Adrian Bird.jpg|frameless|120px|alt=Photographic portrait of Adrian Peter Bird]]
! scope="row" | {{sortname|Adrian Peter|Bird|}}
| British
| {{Sortname|Adrian Peter|Bird|}}
| align=left | "in recognition of his pioneering work in the study of global mechanisms by which [[Transcription (genetics)|transcription]] of the mammalian genome is regulated and for his exploration into the molecular basis of fundamental biological mechanisms, particularly his development of ways of analysing [[methylation]] patterns of eukaryotic DNA using [[endonuclease]]s and the discovery of and continued research into a new class of DNA sequences found in all vertebrates"
|"in recognition of his pioneering work in the study of global mechanisms by which [[Transcription (genetics)|transcription]] of the mammalian genome is regulated and for his exploration into the molecular basis of fundamental biological mechanisms, particularly his development of ways of analysing [[methylation]] patterns of eukaryotic DNA using [[endonuclease]]s and the discovery of and continued research into a new class of DNA sequences found in all vertebrates"||align=center|—
|<ref>{{Cite web|title=Adrian Bird|url=https://royalsociety.org/people/adrian-bird-11088/|url-status=live|access-date=26 February 2022|publisher=[[Royal Society]]|archive-date=12 July 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180712003648/https://royalsociety.org/people/adrian-bird-11088/}}</ref>
|-
|-
| scope="row" | 2001
|2001
! scope="row" | {{sortname|Azim|Surani|}}
| —
|Kenyan
| {{Sortname|Azim|Surani|}}
| align=left | "in recognition of his discovery of mammalian [[genomic imprinting]], revealing the expression of certain autosomal genes according to the parent of origin. Genomic imprinting has major implications for human genetics and the inheritance patterns of human disease and its discovery has been a major fundamental breakthrough that has changed the way we think about genetics in mammals"
|"in recognition of his discovery of mammalian [[genomic imprinting]], revealing the expression of certain autosomal genes according to the parent of origin. Genomic imprinting has major implications for human genetics and the inheritance patterns of human disease and its discovery has been a major fundamental breakthrough that has changed the way we think about genetics in mammals"||<ref>{{cite web|url=http://meetings.cshl.edu/Chats/symposium08/index.htm#surani|title=CSHL Stem Cells Symposium Chats|publisher=Cold Spring Harbour Laboratory|access-date=2009-02-05}}</ref>
|<ref>{{Cite book|last=Carey|first=Nessa|title=The Epigenetics Revolution {{endash}} How Modern Biology Is Rewriting Our Understanding of Genetics, Disease, and Inheritance|publisher=[[Columbia University Press]]|year=2012|isbn=9780231530712|pages=116}}</ref>
|-
|-
| scope="row" | 2003
|2003
! scope="row" | {{sortname|Jean|Beggs}}
| —
| British
| {{Sortname|Jean|Beggs}}
| align=left | "for her contributions to the isolation and manipulation of [[recombinant DNA]] molecules in a eukaryotic organism, adding a new dimension to molecular and cellular biology"
|"for her contributions to the isolation and manipulation of [[recombinant DNA]] molecules in a eukaryotic organism, adding a new dimension to molecular and cellular biology"||<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.mib.ac.uk/aboutus/excellence/fellows/Beggs%20Jean/index.html |title=Jean Beggs (Manchester Interdisciplinary Biocenter - The University of Manchester) |publisher=The University of Manchester |access-date=2009-02-05 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080412111441/http://www.mib.ac.uk/aboutus/excellence/fellows/Beggs%20Jean/index.html |archive-date=2008-04-12 }}</ref>
|<ref>{{Cite web|title=Jean Beggs|url=https://www.ae-info.org/ae/Member/Beggs_Jean|url-status=live|access-date=26 February 2022|publisher=[[Academia Europaea]]|archive-date=28 March 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190328121444/https://www.ae-info.org/ae/Member/Beggs_Jean}}</ref>
|-
|-
| scope="row" | 2005
|2005
! scope="row" | {{sortname|Lionel|Crawford}}
| —
| British
| {{Sortname|Lionel|Crawford}}
| align=left | "in recognition for his work on the small [[DNA tumour virus]]es, specifically the papova virus group, papilloma, polyoma and SV40"
|"in recognition for his work on the small [[DNA tumour virus]]es, specifically the papova virus group, papilloma, polyoma and SV40"||align=center|—
|<ref>{{Cite book|title=History of Cervical Cancer and the Role of the Human Papillomavirus, 1960–2000|publisher=[[Wellcome Trust]]|year=2009|isbn=978-085484-123-3|editor-last=Reynolds|editor-first=L. A.|volume=38|pages=46|editor-last2=Tansey|editor-first2=E. M.}}</ref>
|-
|-
| scope="row" | 2007
|2007
! scope="row" | {{sortname|Richard J.|Roberts}}
| [[File:Roberts, Richard John (1943).jpg|frameless|120px|alt=Photographic portrait of Richard J. Roberts]]
| British
| {{Sortname|Richard J.|Roberts}}
| align=left | "for his internationally acclaimed contributions to the discovery of [[RNA splicing]] and his structural and genetic studies that have extended the range of sequence specificity of restriction and modification of enzymes"
|"for his internationally acclaimed contributions to the discovery of [[RNA splicing]] and his structural and genetic studies that have extended the range of sequence specificity of restriction and modification of enzymes"||align=center|—
|<ref>{{Cite web|title=Richard Roberts|url=https://royalsociety.org/people/richard-roberts-12188/|url-status=live|access-date=26 February 2022|website=|publisher=[[Royal Society]]|archive-date=6 October 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151006213105/https://royalsociety.org/people/richard-roberts-12188/}}</ref>
|-
|-
| scope="row" | 2009
|2009
! scope="row" | {{sortname|Gregory|Challis|}}
| —
| British
| {{Sortname|Gregory|Challis}}
| align=left | "for his highly interdisciplinary work, exploiting genomics of [[Streptomyces coelicolor]] to identify new natural products and biosynthetic enzymes."
|"for his highly interdisciplinary work, exploiting genomics of [[Streptomyces coelicolor]] to identify new natural products and biosynthetic enzymes."||<ref>{{cite web | url=https://www2.warwick.ac.uk/fac/sci/chemistry/research/challis/ | title=Greg Challis | publisher=Department of Chemistry, University of Warwick | access-date=7 June 2016}}</ref>
|<ref>{{Cite web|date=14 July 2009|title=Warwick Professor Awarded Medal by the Royal Society|url=https://warwick.ac.uk/newsandevents/pressreleases/warwick_professor_awarded/|url-status=live|access-date=26 February 2022|publisher=[[University of Warwick]]|archive-date=28 September 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200928081632/https://warwick.ac.uk/newsandevents/pressreleases/warwick_professor_awarded/}}</ref>
|-
|-
| scope="row" | 2010
|2010
! scope="row" | {{sortname|Gideon|Davies}}
| [[File:Professor Gideon Davies, FRS, FMedSci.jpg|frameless|120px|alt=Photographic portrait of Gideon Davies]]
| British
| {{Sortname|Gideon|Davies}}
| align=left | "for his highly interdisciplinary work into the three-dimensional structures and reaction coordinates of enzymes, which has transformed [[Glycobiology|glycobiochemistry]]"
|"for his highly interdisciplinary work into the three-dimensional structures and reaction coordinates of enzymes, which has transformed [[Glycobiology|glycobiochemistry]]" ||align=center|—
|<ref>{{Cite web|title=Gideon Davies|url=https://royalsociety.org/people/gideon-davies-11313/|url-status=live|access-date=26 February 2022|publisher=[[Royal Society]]|archive-date=15 August 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200815112432/https://royalsociety.org/people/gideon-davies-11313/}}</ref>
|-
|-
| scope="row" | 2011
|2011
! scope="row" | {{sortname|Angela|McLean|Angela McLean (biologist)}}
| [[File:Dame Angela McLean.jpg|frameless|120px|alt=Photographic portrait of Angela McLean]]
| British
| {{Sortname|Angela|McLean|Angela McLean (biologist)}}
| align=left | "for her pivotal work on the mathematical [[population biology]] of [[Immunity (medical)|immunity]]."
|"for her pivotal work on the mathematical [[population biology]] of [[Immunity (medical)|immunity]]." ||align=center|—
|<ref>{{Cite journal|date=July 2011|title=Oxford Medicine and the Early Royal Society|url=https://issuu.com/oxfordmedicalalumninewsletter/docs/oxmed12_jun_2011_16pp_final_copy|url-status=live|journal=Oxford Medicine|publisher=[[University of Oxford]]|page=7|access-date=26 February 2022|via=[[Issuu]]|archive-date=25 February 2022|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220225211751/https://issuu.com/oxfordmedicalalumninewsletter/docs/oxmed12_jun_2011_16pp_final_copy}}</ref>
|-
|-
| scope="row" | 2013
|2013
! scope="row" | {{sortname|Christofer|Toumazou}}
| [[File:Epo14 toumazou-0429.jpg|frameless|120px|alt=Photographic portrait of Christofer Toumazou]]
| British
| {{Sortname|Christofer|Toumazou}}
| align=left | "for his success in applying [[semiconductor]] technology to biomedical and life-science applications, most recently to [[DNA analysis]]."
|"for his success in applying [[semiconductor]] technology to biomedical and life-science applications, most recently to [[DNA analysis]]."||align=center|—
|<ref>{{Cite web|date=22 July 2013|title=Royal Society Accolades for Manchester Scientists|url=https://www.manchester.ac.uk/discover/news/article/?id=10430|url-status=live|access-date=26 February 2022|publisher=[[University of Manchester]]|archive-date=25 February 2022|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220225211810/https://www.manchester.ac.uk/discover/news/article/?id=10430}}</ref>
|-
|-
| scope="row" | 2015
|2015
! scope="row" | {{sortname|Benjamin|Simons}}
| —
| British
| {{Sortname|Benjamin|Simons}}
| align=left | "for his work analysing [[stem cell]] lineages in development, tissue [[homeostasis]] and cancer"
|"for his work analysing [[stem cell]] lineages in development, tissue [[homeostasis]] and cancer"||align=center|—
|<ref>{{Cite web|date=20 July 2015|title=Cambridge Scientists Receive Royal Society Awards|url=https://www.cam.ac.uk/research/news/cambridge-scientists-receive-royal-society-awards-0|url-status=live|access-date=26 February 2022|publisher=[[University of Cambridge]]|archive-date=17 April 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190417172514/https://www.cam.ac.uk/research/news/cambridge-scientists-receive-royal-society-awards-0}}</ref>
|-
|-
| scope="row" | 2017
|2017
! scope="row" | {{sortname|Richard M.|Durbin}}
| [[File:Richard Durbin, Wellcome-Sanger, Cambridge, UK (2698443141).jpg|frameless|120px|alt=Photographic portrait of Richard M. Durbin]]
| British
| {{Sortname|Richard M.|Durbin}}
| align=left | "for his outstanding contributions to computational biology, and their impact across many areas of the life sciences"
|"for his outstanding contributions to computational biology, and their impact across many areas of the life sciences"||align=center|—
|<ref>{{Cite web|date=20 July 2017|title=Richard Durbin Awarded the Royal Society's Gabor Medal|url=https://www.chu.cam.ac.uk/news/2017/jul/20/richard-durbin-awarded-2017-gabor-medal/#|url-status=live|access-date=26 February 2022|website=[[Churchill College, Cambridge|Churchill College]]|publisher=[[University of Cambridge]]|archive-date=25 February 2022|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220225211800/https://www.chu.cam.ac.uk/news/2017/jul/20/richard-durbin-awarded-2017-gabor-medal/}}</ref>
|-
|-
| scope="row" | 2018
|2018
! scope="row" | {{sortname|Cait|MacPhee}}
| —
| British
| {{Sortname|Cait|MacPhee}}
| align=left | "for her seminal contributions to understanding protein aggregation that informed our approach to diseases such as Alzheimer’s and diabetes, and opened up new opportunities for creating self-assembled functional biopolymers"
|"for her seminal contributions to understanding protein aggregation that informed our approach to diseases such as Alzheimer’s and diabetes, and opened up new opportunities for creating self-assembled functional biopolymers"||align=center|—
|<ref>{{Cite web|date=20 July 2018|title=Prof Cait MacPhee is Royal Society’s Gabor Medal Winner 2018|url=https://www.ph.ed.ac.uk/news/2018/prof-cait-macphee-is-royal-societys-gabor-medal-winner-2018-18-07-20|url-status=live|access-date=26 February 2022|publisher=[[University of Edinburgh]]|archive-date=28 October 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201028090617/https://www.ph.ed.ac.uk/news/2018/prof-cait-macphee-is-royal-societys-gabor-medal-winner-2018-18-07-20}}</ref>
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|-
| scope="row" | 2019
|2019
! scope="row" | {{sortname|Alison|Noble}}
| [[File:Alison Noble Royal Society.jpg|frameless|120px|alt=Photographic portrait of Alison Noble]]
| British
| {{Sortname|Alison|Noble}}
| align=left | "for developing solutions to a number of key problems in biomedical image analysis and substantially advancing automatic extraction of clinically useful information from medical ultrasound scans"
|"for developing solutions to a number of key problems in biomedical image analysis and substantially advancing automatic extraction of clinically useful information from medical ultrasound scans"||align=center|—
|<ref>{{Cite web|date=19 July 2019|title=Professor Alison Noble receives a Royal Society Award|url=https://www.st-hildas.ox.ac.uk/content/professor-alison-noble-receives-royal-society-award|url-status=live|access-date=26 February 2022|website=[[St Hilda's College, Oxford|St Hilda's College]]|publisher=[[University of Oxford]]|archive-date=19 October 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211019033750/https://www.st-hildas.ox.ac.uk/content/professor-alison-noble-receives-royal-society-award}}</ref>
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|-
| scope="row" | 2020
|2020
! scope="row" | {{sortname|David Ian|Stuart}}
| —
| British
| {{Sortname|David Ian|Stuart}}
| align=left | "for his seminal contributions to understanding virus structure and application to vaccine design, as well as driving the application of engineering and physical science to the life sciences."
|"for his seminal contributions to understanding virus structure and application to vaccine design, as well as driving the application of engineering and physical science to the life sciences."||align=center|—
|<ref>{{Cite web|title=Professor David Stuart awarded The Gabor Medal 2020|url=https://www.medsci.ox.ac.uk/news/professor-david-stuart-awarded-the-gabor-medal-2020/search?tab=haiku-unit&|url-status=live|access-date=20 February 2022|website=[[Divisions of the University of Oxford#Medical Sciences Division|Medical Sciences Division]]|publisher=[[University of Oxford]]|archive-date=20 February 2022|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220220153431/https://www.medsci.ox.ac.uk/news/professor-david-stuart-awarded-the-gabor-medal-2020/search?tab=haiku-unit&}}</ref>
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|-
| scope="row" | 2021
|2021
! scope="row" | {{sortname|Peter|Donnelly}}
| —
| Australian
| {{Sortname|Peter|Donnelly}}
| align=left | "for pioneering work in the genomic revolution in human disease research, transforming the understanding of meiotic recombination, and for developing new statistical methods."
|"for pioneering work in the genomic revolution in human disease research, transforming the understanding of meiotic recombination, and for developing new statistical methods."||align=center|—
|<ref name = ":latest" >{{Cite web|date=24 August 2021|title=St Anne's Honorary Fellow, Professor Sir Peter Donnelly, awarded the Royal Society' 2021 Gabor Medal|url=https://www.st-annes.ox.ac.uk/st-annes-honorary-fellow-professor-sir-peter-donnelly-awarded-the-royal-societys-2021-gabor-medal/|url-status=live|access-date=20 February 2022|website=[[St Anne's College, Oxford|St Anne's College]]|publisher=[[University of Oxford]]|archive-date=20 February 2022|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220220153435/https://www.st-annes.ox.ac.uk/st-annes-honorary-fellow-professor-sir-peter-donnelly-awarded-the-royal-societys-2021-gabor-medal/}}</ref>
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== See also ==
*[[Awards, lectures and medals of the Royal Society]]


== References ==
== References ==

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This article is about the Royal Society award. For other uses, see Dennis Gabor Award (disambiguation).

The Gabor Medal is a medal awarded by the Royal Society every alternate year for "acknowledged distinction of interdisciplinary work between the life sciences with other disciplines".[1] The medal was created in 1989 to honour the memory of physicist Dennis Gabor, and was originally awarded biennially.[1] Initially awarded "for acknowledged distinction of work in the life sciences, particularly in the fields of genetic engineering and molecular biology", the criteria for the awarding of the medal was later changed to its current definition.[1] The medal is targeted at "emerging early to mid career stage scientist[s]" and is accompanied by a £2000 prize (since 2017, earlier £1000).[1] It was first awarded in 1989 to Noreen Murray for her pioneering work in genetic engineering.[1] From 2017 it has been awarded annually.

List of recipients

Gabor Medal recipients
Year Recipient Nationality Rationale Ref
1989 Noreen Murray British "in recognition of her pioneering work in the field of genetic engineering, in particular for her development of the bacteriophage lambda system as a cloning [vector?] into which could be incorporated DNA fragments of over 5 kilobases in length" [2]
1991 Alan Fersht British "in recognition of his pioneering work in the use of protein engineering to study protein structure and enzyme function" [3]
1993 Charles Weissmann Swiss "in recognition of his many contributions to molecular biology, including his innovative analysis of coliphage Q-beta by the introduction of methods for making site-specific mutations, and the cloning and expression of alpha-interferon genes in bacteria" —
1995 David Hopwood British "in recognition of his pioneering and leading the growing field of the genetics of Streptomyces, and for developing the programming of the pervasive process of polyketide synthesis" [4]
1997 Kenneth Holmes British "in recognition of his achievements in molecular biology, in particular his pioneering analyses of biological structures and viruses, and his development of the use of synchrotron radiation for X-ray diffraction experiments, now a widely used technique not only in molecular biology but in physics and materials science" [5]
1999 Adrian Peter Bird British "in recognition of his pioneering work in the study of global mechanisms by which transcription of the mammalian genome is regulated and for his exploration into the molecular basis of fundamental biological mechanisms, particularly his development of ways of analysing methylation patterns of eukaryotic DNA using endonucleases and the discovery of and continued research into a new class of DNA sequences found in all vertebrates" —
2001 Azim Surani Kenyan "in recognition of his discovery of mammalian genomic imprinting, revealing the expression of certain autosomal genes according to the parent of origin. Genomic imprinting has major implications for human genetics and the inheritance patterns of human disease and its discovery has been a major fundamental breakthrough that has changed the way we think about genetics in mammals" [6]
2003 Jean Beggs British "for her contributions to the isolation and manipulation of recombinant DNA molecules in a eukaryotic organism, adding a new dimension to molecular and cellular biology" [7]
2005 Lionel Crawford British "in recognition for his work on the small DNA tumour viruses, specifically the papova virus group, papilloma, polyoma and SV40" —
2007 Richard J. Roberts British "for his internationally acclaimed contributions to the discovery of RNA splicing and his structural and genetic studies that have extended the range of sequence specificity of restriction and modification of enzymes" —
2009 Gregory Challis British "for his highly interdisciplinary work, exploiting genomics of Streptomyces coelicolor to identify new natural products and biosynthetic enzymes." [8]
2010 Gideon Davies British "for his highly interdisciplinary work into the three-dimensional structures and reaction coordinates of enzymes, which has transformed glycobiochemistry" —
2011 Angela McLean British "for her pivotal work on the mathematical population biology of immunity." —
2013 Christofer Toumazou British "for his success in applying semiconductor technology to biomedical and life-science applications, most recently to DNA analysis." —
2015 Benjamin Simons British "for his work analysing stem cell lineages in development, tissue homeostasis and cancer" —
2017 Richard M. Durbin British "for his outstanding contributions to computational biology, and their impact across many areas of the life sciences" —
2018 Cait MacPhee British "for her seminal contributions to understanding protein aggregation that informed our approach to diseases such as Alzheimer’s and diabetes, and opened up new opportunities for creating self-assembled functional biopolymers" —
2019 Alison Noble British "for developing solutions to a number of key problems in biomedical image analysis and substantially advancing automatic extraction of clinically useful information from medical ultrasound scans" —
2020 David Ian Stuart British "for his seminal contributions to understanding virus structure and application to vaccine design, as well as driving the application of engineering and physical science to the life sciences." —
2021 Peter Donnelly Australian "for pioneering work in the genomic revolution in human disease research, transforming the understanding of meiotic recombination, and for developing new statistical methods." —

References

General

  • "Award winners : Gabor Medal". The Royal Society. Retrieved 2016-06-07.

Specific

  1. ^ a b c d e "Gabor Medal". The Royal Society. Retrieved 2017-01-31.
  2. ^ "Special Minute: Noreen E Murray F.R.S" (PDF). University of Edinburgh. Archived from the original (PDF) on March 20, 2009. Retrieved 2009-02-05.
  3. ^ "Trinity College Science Society - Prof Sir Alan Fersht FRS". Trinity College Science Society. Archived from the original on 2008-02-29. Retrieved 2009-02-05.
  4. ^ The International Who's Who 2004. Routledge. 2003. ISBN 9781857432176. Retrieved 2009-02-05.
  5. ^ "Fascinating Research" (PDF). Max Planck Research. Retrieved 2009-02-05.
  6. ^ "CSHL Stem Cells Symposium Chats". Cold Spring Harbour Laboratory. Retrieved 2009-02-05.
  7. ^ "Jean Beggs (Manchester Interdisciplinary Biocenter - The University of Manchester)". The University of Manchester. Archived from the original on 2008-04-12. Retrieved 2009-02-05.
  8. ^ "Greg Challis". Department of Chemistry, University of Warwick. Retrieved 7 June 2016.

External links

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