Croonian Medal Explained

Caption:The lecture is named after William Croone (1633–1684), portrait painted by Mary Beale in 1680.
Croonian Medal
and Lecture
Awarded For:For achievements in biological sciences
Location:London
Country: United Kingdom
Sponsor:The Royal Society
Higher:Copley Medal[1]
Same:Bakerian Medal (physical sciences)
Lower:Royal Medal
(Commonwealth or Irish citizens or residents only)
Foreign Member of the Royal Society (ForMemRS, international)

The Croonian Medal and Lecture is a prestigious award, a medal, and lecture given at the invitation of the Royal Society and the Royal College of Physicians.[2] [3]

Among the papers of William Croone at his death in 1684, was a plan to endow a single lectureship at both the Royal Society and the Royal College of Physicians. His wife provided the bequest in 1701 specifying that it was "for the support of a lecture and illustrative experiment for the advancement of natural knowledge on locomotion, or (conditionally) of such other subjects as, in the opinion of the President for the time being, should be most useful in promoting the objects for which the Royal Society was instituted". One lecture was to be delivered by a Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians and the other, on the nature and laws of muscular motion, to be delivered before the Royal Society. The Royal Society lecture series began in 1738 and that of the Royal College of Physicians in 1749.[4]

Croone became an original Fellow of the Royal Society in May 1663.[5] He also became a Fellow of the College of Physicians on 29 July 1675.[6] He was appointed lecturer on anatomy at Surgeons' hall in 1670 and pursued research in several important subjects of his day, including respiration, muscular motion, and generation.

One individual, Sir Stephen O’Rahilly FRS, FRCP has received the award twice: initially from the Royal College of Physicians in 2011, and then from the Royal Society in 2022 (below).

List of lecturers (Royal Society – for RCP lecturers see below)

Source: Royal Society

19th century

Source (1801–30):[7]

18th century

Source:[7]

List of Lecturers (Royal College of Physicians)

21st century

18th century

Notes and References

  1. Web site: The Royal Society Medals and Awards: Nomination guidance . 2024 . The Royal Society . 30 March 2024.
  2. Web site: Croonian Lecture. Royal Society. 23 December 2014.
  3. Web site: Croonian Lectures (Sadleir Trust). Royal College of Physicians. 23 December 2014. dead. https://web.archive.org/web/20140408211843/http://www.rcplondon.ac.uk/sites/default/files/croonian_factsheet.pdf. 8 April 2014.
  4. Book: The roll of the Royal College of Physicians of London, comprising biographical sketches of all the eminent physicians whose names are recorded in the Annals .. (Volume 3). Royal College of Physicians. ebook
  5. Web site: Lists of Royal Society Fellows 1660–2007. The Royal Society. 12 August 2010. London.
  6. Web site: William Croone . Munks Roll . Royal College of Physicians . 12 November 2022 . London. I. 369.
  7. Book: Hudson, James . Report on the Adjudication of the Copley, Rumford and Royal Medals . 48.
  8. Web site: Rebecca Fitzgerald gives Croonian lecture at Royal College of Physicians. Cancer Research UK. 7 August 2018.
  9. Web site: Jonathan Ashmore awarded biology's 'premier Prize Lecture'. British Neuroscience Association. 7 August 2018.
  10. Web site: Dame Pam Shaw selected for prestigious Croonian Lecture. University of Sheffield. 14 September 2016.
  11. Web site: Croonian Lectures (Sadleir Trust). Royal College of Physicians. 7 April 2014. dead. https://web.archive.org/web/20140408211843/http://www.rcplondon.ac.uk/sites/default/files/croonian_factsheet.pdf. 8 April 2014.
  12. Web site: Royal College of Physicians- Events Diary. Royal College of Physicians. 2012-09-07. dead. https://archive.today/20121223065006/http://events.rcplondon.ac.uk/details.aspx?e=2603. 23 December 2012.
  13. Web site: Royal College of Physicians- Events Diary. Royal College of Physicians. 2012-09-07. https://archive.today/20121223073528/http://events.rcplondon.ac.uk/details.aspx?e=2298. 23 December 2012. dead.
  14. Web site: Croonian Lectures (Sadleir Trust). Royal College of Physicians. 2012-09-07. dead. https://web.archive.org/web/20150211205704/https://www.rcplondon.ac.uk/sites/default/files/lectureships_for_2013.pdf. 11 February 2015.
  15. Web site: RCP Croonian Lectures. Royal College of Physicians. 12 August 2010.
  16. Web site: The origins of multiple sclerosis. Clinical Medicine. 7 April 2014. 7 April 2014. 23 September 2015. https://web.archive.org/web/20150923204728/http://www.clinmed.rcpjournal.org/content/4/4/346.full.pdf. dead.
  17. Web site: Prof John Connell's Biography . Debretts. 2011-08-26.