Bisset Hawkins Medal Explained

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.^[1]

The medal, made of gold, was endowed by Captain Edward Wilmot Williams in 1896.^[2]

Medallists

Medallists have been:^[3]

• 1899: ^[4]
• 1902: William Henry Power^{[5] [6]}
• 1905: Patrick Manson^[7]
• 1908: Sir ^[8]
• 1911: Clement Dukes^[9]
• 1914: Sir Ronald Ross^[10] for his researches on malaria
• 1917: Sir Arthur Newsholme^[11]
• 1920: Sir William Heaton Hamer^[12]
• 1923: Sir Thomas Morison Legge^[13]
• 1926: Sir Ambrose Thomas Stanton^[14]
• 1929: Sir Edward Mellanby^[15]
• 1932: Thomas Henry Craig Stevenson^[16]
• 1935: Sir George Newman^[17]
• 1938: Major Greenwood^[18]
• 1941: Sir Frederick Norton Kay Menzies^[19]
• 1944: Brigadier J. A. Sinton^[20]
• 1947: Christopher Howard Andrewes
• 1950: Sir William Wilson Jameson^[21]
• 1953: William Norman Pickles^[22]
• 1956: Graham Selby Wilson
• 1959: Percy Stocks
• 1962: Sir Richard Doll,^[23] for contributions to preventative medicine
• 1965: Sir George Edward Godber
• 1968:
• 1971: Sir Derrick Melville Dunlop
• 1974:
• 1977: Major
  • 1980: Jeremy Noah Morris 1983: Abraham Manie Adelstein
• 1986: Geoffrey Arthur Rose
• 1989: Sir Donald Acheson
• 1992: Rosemary Rue
• 1995: Sir Kenneth Charles Calman^[24]
• 1998:
• 2001: Kay-Tee Khaw^[25]
• 2004: Michael Gideon Marmot
• 2007: ^[26]
• 2010:
• 2013: ^[27]
• 2016: Sir Ian Gilmore^[28]
• 2019: Dr Sarah R Anderson - for work to improve national TB Control ^[29]
• 2022: Dr Deirdre Anne Buckley

See also

• List of medicine awards
• Prizes named after people

Notes and References

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7. Web site: MANSON, Sir Patrick (1844-1922). AIM25. 23 September 2016.
8. Web site: Murphy, Sir Shirley Forster (1848 - 1923). Royal College of Surgeons. 23 September 2016.
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11. Web site: Arthur (Sir) Newsholme. Royal College of Physicians. 23 September 2016.
12. Web site: REORGANISATION OF THE INDIAN MEDICAL SERVICES. opensample. 23 September 2016.
13. Web site: Thomas Legge papers. 23 September 2016.
14. Web site: Ambrose Thomas (Sir) Stanton. Royal College of Physicians. 23 September 2016.
15. Science. LXX. 1808. 188.
16. Science. 19 August 1932. 165.
17. Web site: George (Sir) Newman. Royal College of Physicians. 23 September 2016.
18. Web site: Major Greenwood. Royal College of Physicians. 23 September 2016. dead. https://web.archive.org/web/20151017055333/http://munksroll.rcplondon.ac.uk/Biography/Details/1890. 17 October 2015.
19. Web site: Frederick Norton Kay (Sir) Menzies. Royal College of Physicians. 23 September 2016.
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21. Web site: William Wilson Jameson. Royal College of Physicians. 23 September 2016.
22. Web site: William Norman Pickles. Royal College of Physicians. 23 September 2016. dead. https://web.archive.org/web/20151022193347/http://munksroll.rcplondon.ac.uk/Biography/Details/3558. 22 October 2015.
23. Sir Richard Doll CH OBE. 28 October 1912-24 July 2005. 2010. Royal Society. 10.1098/rsbm.2010.0019. 23 September 2016. Peto. Richard. Beral. Valerie. Biographical Memoirs of Fellows of the Royal Society. 56. 63–83. 59083063.
24. Book: The International Who's Who 2004.
25. Web site: Professor Kay-Tee Khaw. February 2013. Cambridge University. 23 September 2016.
26. Web site: UOA 6 - Epidemiology and Public Health RA5a: Research environment and esteem. University of Nottingham. 30 October 2016.
27. Web site: Nick Finer. 23 September 2016.
28. Web site: RCP Annual Report. RCP. 3 December 2018.
29. https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/collaborative-tuberculosis-strategy-for-england Collaborative TB Strategy for England