The following is a list of Leeuwenhoek Lecture award winners along with the title of their lecture:
21st Century • 2025
Mike Ferguson,
for major contributions in discovery science and application to the treatment of neglected infectious diseases • 2024
Joanne Webster,
for her achievements in advancing control of disease in humans and animals caused by parasites in Asia and Africa • 2022
Sjors Scheres,
for ground-breaking contributions and innovations in image analysis and reconstruction methods in electron cryo-microscopy, enabling the structure determination of complex macromolecules of fundamental biological and medical importance to atomic resolution • 2020
Geoffrey L. Smith,
for his studies of poxviruses which has had major impact in wider areas, notably vaccine development, biotechnology, host-pathogen interactions and innate immunity • 2018
Sarah Cleaveland,
Can we make rabies history? Realising the value of research for the global elimination of rabies • 2015
Jeffrey Errington,
for his seminal discoveries in relation to the cell cycle and cell morphogenesis in bacteria • 2012
Brad Amos,
How new science is transforming the optical microscope • 2010
Robert Gordon Webster, ''Pandemic Influenza: one flu over the cuckoo's nest'' • 2006
Richard Anthony Crowther,
Microscopy goes cold: frozen viruses reveal their structural secrets. • 2005
Keith Chater,
Streptomyces inside out: a new perspective on the bacteria that provide us with antibiotics. • 2004
David Sherratt,
A bugs life • 2003
Brian Spratt,
Bacterial populations and bacterial disease • 2002
Stephen West,
DNA repair from microbes to man • 2001
Robin Weiss,
From Pan to pandemic: animal to human infections 20th Century • 2000
Howard Dalton,
The natural and unnatural history of methane-oxidising bacteria • 1999
Peter C. Doherty,
Killer T cells and virus infections • 1998
George A.M. Cross,
The genetics and cell biology of antigenic variation in trypanosomes • 1997
Peter Biggs,
Mareks disease, tumours and prevention • 1996
Julian Davies,
Microbial molecular diversity - function, evolution and applications • 1995
John Guest,
Adaptation to life without oxygen • 1994
Keith Vickerman,
The opportunistic parasite • 1993
Fred Brown,
Peptide vaccines, dream or reality. • 1992
John Postgate,
Bacterial evolution and the nitrogen-fixing plant • 1991
Harry Smith,
The influence of the host on microbes that cause disease • 1990
John Skehel,
How enveloped viruses enter cells • 1989
Piet Borst,
Antigenic variation in African trypanosomes • 1988
Alfred Rupert Hall,
Antoni van Leeuwenhoek (1632-1723) and Anglo-Dutch collaboration • 1987
David Alan Hopwood,
Towards an understanding of gene switching in streptomyces, the basis of sporulation and antibiotic production • 1986
William Fleming Hoggan Jarrett,
Environmental carcinogens and paillomaviruses in the pathogenesis of cancer. • 1985
Kenneth Murray, ''A molecular biologist's view of viral hepatitis'' • 1984
William Duncan Paterson Stewart,
The functional organisation of nitrogen-fixing cyanobacteria. • 1983
Michael Anthony Epstein,
A prototype vaccine to prevent Epstein-Barr (E.B.) virus-associated tumours. • 1982
Hamao Umezawa,
Studies of microbial products in rising to the challenge of curing cancer • 1981
Frank William Ernest Gibson,
The biochemical and genetic approach to the study of bioenergetics with the use of Escherichia coli: progress and prospects. • 1980
David Arthur John Tyrrell,
Is it a virus? • 1979
Patricia Hannah Clarke,
Experiments in microbial evolution: new enzymes, new metabolic activities. • 1978
Hugh John Forster Cairns,
Bacteria as proper subjects for cancer research. • 1977
Francois Jacob,
Mouse teratocarcinoma and mouse embryo. • 1976
Geoffrey Herbert Beale,
The varied contributions of protozoa to genetical knowledge • 1975
Joel Mandelstam,
Bacterial sporulation: a problem in the biochemistry and genetics of a primitive development system. • 1974
Renato Dulbecco,
The control of cell growth regulation by tumour-inducing viruses: a challenging problem. • 1973
Aaron Klug,
The structure and assembly of regular viruses • 1972
Hans Leo Kornberg,
Carbohydrate transport by micro-organisms • 1971
Michael George Parke Stoker,
Tumour viruses and the sociology of fibroblasts • 1970
Philip Herries Gregory,
Airborne microbes: their significance and distribution • 1969
Jacques Lucien Monod,
Cellular and molecular cybernetics. • 1968
Gordon Elliott Fogg,
The physiology of an algal nuisance • 1967
James Baddiley,
Teichoic acids and the molecular structure of bacterial walls • 1966
Percy Wragg Brian,
Obligate parasitism in fungi • 1965
William Hayes,
Some controversial aspects of bacterial sexuality • 1964
Donald Devereux Woods,
A pattern of research with two bacterial growth factors • 1963
Norman Wingate Pirie,
The size of small organisms • 1962
Guido Pontecorvo,
Microbial genetics: achievements and prospects • 1961
Frank John Fenner,
Interactions between poxviruses • 1960
Andre Michel Lwoff,
Viral functions • 1959
Frederick Charles Bawden,
Viruses: retrospect and prospect • 1958
David Keilin,
The problem of anabiosis or latent life: history and current concepts • 1957
Wilson Smith,
Virus-host cell interactions • 1956
Ernest Frederick Gale,
The biochemical organization of the bacterial cell • 1955
Henry Gerard Thornton,
The ecology of micro-organisms in soil. • 1954
Juda Hirsch Quastel,
Soil metabolism • 1953
Kenneth Manley Smith,
Some aspects of the behaviour of certain viruses in their hosts and of their development in the cell. • 1952
Albert Jan Kluyver,
The changing appraisal of the microbe • 1951
Christopher Howard Andrewes,
The place of viruses in nature • 1950
Paul Gordon Fildes,
The development of microbiology. ==References==