The Huxley Lecture
The Huxley Lecture was a memorial lecture instituted by Charing Cross Hospital Medical School in 1896[1] to honour Thomas Henry Huxley[2] and is delivered biennially. The Huxley Lecture was one of two memorial lectures created to honour Huxley. The other lecture series is known as the The Huxley Memorial Medal and Lecture and was created in 1900 by the Royal Anthropological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland.[3]
Recipients
| Year | Name | Rationale or Title | Date | Ref |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1896 | Michael Foster | "in organizing the Cambridge Biological School and for the joint-editing along with E. Ray Lankester of The Scientific Memoirs of Thomas Henry Huxley" | 5 October 1896 | [4] |
| 1898 | Rudolf Virchow | "as "the father of modern pathology" and as the founder of social medicine" | 3 October 1898 | [5] |
| 1900 | Joseph Lister | "for the development of antiseptic surgery that distinguished him as the father of modern surgery" | 2 October 1900 | [6] |
| 1902 | William H. Welch | "for establishing and leading the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health" | 1 October 1902 | [7] |
| 1904 | William Macewen | "for being a pioneer in modern brain surgery and considered the father of neurosurgery" | 3 October 1904 | [8] |
| 1906 | Ivan Pavlov | "for his discovery of classical conditioning through his experiments with dogs" | 6 October 1906 | [9] |
| 1908 | Patrick Manson | "for discovering that filariasis in humans is transmitted by mosquitoes defining the foundation of modern tropical medicine, and he is recognized with an epithet "Father of Tropical Medicine"" | 3 October 1908 | [10] |
| 1910 | Frederick Walker Mott | Hereditary Aspects Of Nervous And Mental Diseases | 8 October 1910 | [11] |
References
- ^ Clio Medica. Acta Academiae Internationalis Historiae Medicinae. Vol. 19. Vol. 19. BRILL. 29 January 2020. p. 237. ISBN 978-90-04-41828-8.
- ^ "The Huxley Lecture—Recent Advances in Science and their Bearing on Medicine and Surgery: 1I". Nature. 54 (1407): 580–583. October 1896. doi:10.1038/054580a0.
- ^ "Huxley Memorial Medal and Lecture". Honours. Royal Anthropological Institute. 18 August 2009. Retrieved 4 January 2023.
- ^ "The Huxley Lecture". British Journal of Dental Science and Prosthetics. 39 (683). London: 932. 1 July 1896.
- ^ Virchow, R. (8 October 1898). "The Huxley Lecture on Recent Advances in Science and their Bearing on Medicine and Surgery: Delivered at the opening of the Charing Cross Hospital Medical School on October 3rd". BMJ. 2 (1971): 1021–1028. doi:10.1136/bmj.2.1971.1021.
- ^ "The Huxley Lecture". BMJ. 2 (2075): 969–977. 6 October 1900. doi:10.1136/bmj.2.2075.969.
- ^ Welch, W. H. (11 October 1902). "The Huxley Lecture on Recent Studies of Immunity, with Special Reference to their Bearing on Pathology: Delivered at the Opening of the Winter Session of Charing Cross Hospital Medical School on October 1st, 1902". BMJ. 2 (2180): 1105–1114. doi:10.1136/bmj.2.2180.1105.
- ^ Macewen, W. (8 October 1904). "The Huxley Lecture on the Function of the Caecum and Appendix: Delivered at the Opening of the Winter Session of Charing Cross Hospital Medical School on October 3rd, 1904". BMJ. 2 (2284): 873–878. doi:10.1136/bmj.2.2284.873.
- ^ "The Huxley Lecture: Professor Pawlow's Address at Charing Cross Hospital". The Hospital. 41 (1046): 9–10. 6 October 1906. PMID 29812138.
- ^ "THE HUXLEY LECTURE: Delivered at Charing Cross Hospital". British medical journal. 2 (2492): 1023–4. 3 October 1908. PMID 20764066.
- ^ Mott, FW (8 October 1910). "The Huxley Lecture On Hereditary Aspects Of Nervous And Mental Diseases". British Medical Journal. 2 (2597): 1013–1020.