Baly Medal Explained

The Baly Medal is a biennial award awarded by the Royal College of Physicians of London.

Founded by a gift from Frederick Daniel Dyster (1809?–93) received in 1866, confirmed by deed 1930 – in memory of William Baly: £400 to provide a gold medal for the person deemed to have most distinguished himself in the science of physiology, especially during the previous two years. The award is made every alternate year on the recommendation of the President and Council at the Quarterly Meeting in July and presented on the occasion of the Harveian Oration.

Medallists

Source 1871–1911 RCP

• 1869: Richard Owen^[1]
  • 1871: Lionel Smith Beale 1873: William Sharpey
• 1875: Claude Bernard
• 1877: Carl Ludwig
• 1879: Charles Darwin
• 1881: John Burdon-Sanderson
• 1883: Charles-Édouard Brown-Séquard
• 1885: William Kitchen Parker
• 1887: David Ferrier
• 1889: Rudolf Heidenhain
• 1891: Michael Foster
• 1893: Moritz Schiff
• 1895: W. H. Gaskell
• 1897: Edward Albert Sharpey-Schafer
• 1899: Charles Scott Sherrington
• 1901: Frederick William Pavy
• 1903: John Newport Langley
• 1905: Ivan Pavlov
• 1907: Ernest Henry Starling
• 1909: Emil Fischer
• 1911: William Dobinson Halliburton
• 1913: J. B. S. Haldane
• 1915: Frederick Gowland Hopkins
• 1917: William Maddock Bayliss
• 1919: Leonard Hill
• 1921: Henry Dale^[2]
• 1923: Joseph Barcroft
• 1925:
• 1927: Archibald Vivian Hill
• 1929: Edgar Douglas Adrian
• 1931: Walter Bradford Cannon
• 1933: Robert Robison^[3]
• 1935: Francis Marshall
• 1937: Ernest Kennaway
• 1939: Charles Best
• 1941: Edgar Allen
• 1943: Frederic Bartlett
• 1945: August Krogh^[4]
• 1947: Bernardo Alberto Houssay^[5]
• 1949: Edward Mellanby^[6]
• 1951: George de Hevesy^[7]
• 1953: Karl Lashley
• 1955: Alan Hodgkin^[8]
• 1957: Ernest Basil Verney^[9]
• 1959: Ivan de Burgh Daly
• 1961: John Eccles^[10]
• 1963: Wilhelm Siegmund Feldberg
• 1965: Roderic Alfred Gregory
• 1967: Bernard Katz^[11]
• 1969: George Wingfield Harris
• 1971: Dorothy Hodgkin^[12]
• 1973: Eric William Horton^[13]
• 1975: Andrew Huxley
• 1977: John Vane^[14]
• 1979: Hans Kosterlitz
• 1981: Malcolm Davenport Milne
• 1983: William Paton^[15]
• 1985: Paul Polani
• 1987: Aaron Klug
• 1989: Michael Berridge
• 1991: David Marsden
• 1993: Denis Noble
• 1995: Charles Nicholas Hales
• 1997: Alec Jeffreys
• 1999: Paul Nurse
• 2001: Colin Blakemore
• 2003: John Sulston
• 2005: Gregory Winter
• 2007: Sydney Brenner
• 2009: Martin Evans
• 2011: Peter Ratcliffe
• 2013: Stephen O'Rahilly^[16]
• 2015:
• 2017: Dimitri Kullmann
• 2019:
• 2022:

See also

• List of medicine awards
• Prizes named after people

Notes and References

1. Web site: List of the Fellows, Members, & Extra-Licentiates of the ROYAL COLLEGE of PHYSICIANS of LONDON. Scans.library.utoronto.ca. 22 October 2017. 22 October 2017. https://web.archive.org/web/20171022032748/http://scans.library.utoronto.ca/pdf/7/33/listoffellowsmem1912roya/listoffellowsmem1912roya.pdf. dead.
2. Web site: Sir Henry Dale - Biographical. Nobelprize.org. 22 October 2017.
3. 10.1039/JR9420000064 . Obituary notices: Robert John Flintoff, 1873–1941; William Macnab, C.B.E.; Hermann Günther Gottschalt Mohrhenn, 1909–1941; William Reginald Ormandy, 1870–1941; Robert Robison, 1853–1941; Henry Harben Whitelegg, 1916–1941 . J. Chem. Soc. . 64–69 . 1942 . Flintoff . T. . Robertson . Robert . Ingold . C. K. . Dunstan . A. E. . Morgan . W. T. J. . Berry . A. J. .
4. Web site: August Krogh - Biographical. Nobelprize.org.
5. Web site: Bernardo Houssay - Biography, Facts and Pictures. Famousscientists.org.
6. 10.1136/bmj.1.4662.1133-a . 2037688 . Baly Medal for Sir E. Mellanby . BMJ . 1 . 4662 . 1133 . 1950 .
7. Book: A History of the Royal College of Physicians of London. Sir George Norman. Clark. Asa. Briggs. British Medical Journal. 21 October 1964. 1. 5427. 79–82. Clarendon Press for the Royal College of Physicians. 10.1136/bmj.1.5427.79. 14218483. 2165065. Google Books. 9780199253340.
8. Web site: Obituaries: Professor Sir Alan Hodgkin. . 4 January 1999.
9. Web site: Munks Roll Details for Ernest Basil Verney. Munksroll.rcplondon.ac.uk. 2017-10-21. 2017-10-22. https://web.archive.org/web/20171022193917/http://munksroll.rcplondon.ac.uk/Biography/Details/4556. dead.
10. Web site: Sir John Eccles - Biographical. Nobelprize.org.
11. Web site: Sir Bernard Katz - Biographical. Nobelprize.org.
12. Web site: Hodgkin Papers. Bodley.ox.ac.uk.
13. Book: A History of the Royal College of Physicians of London. Sir George Norman. Clark. Asa. Briggs. British Medical Journal. 21 October 1964. 1. 5427. 79–82. Clarendon Press for the Royal College of Physicians. 10.1136/bmj.1.5427.79. 14218483. 2165065. Google Books. 9780199253340.
14. Web site: John R. Vane - Biographical. Nobelprize.org.
15. Web site: OBITUARY : Sir William Paton, CBE DM FRCP FRS. Bps.ac.uk. 22 October 2017. https://web.archive.org/web/20171022194337/https://www.bps.ac.uk/BPSMemberPortal/media/BPSWebsite/Assets/Paton-obituary.pdf. 22 October 2017. dead.
16. Web site: Professor Sir Stephen O'Rahilly. Atthelimits.org. 2017-10-21. 2019-04-24. https://web.archive.org/web/20190424063805/https://www.atthelimits.org/biographies/professor-sir-stephen-orahilly/. dead.