George M. Kober Medal and Lectureship
The George M. Kober Medal and Lectureship are awarded by the Association of American Physicians (AAP) in honor of one of its early Presidents, George M. Kober . Since 1925, the George M. Kober Lectureship , which is connected with an honorary lecture, has been awarded approximately every three years . The George M. Kober Medal has been awarded (almost) annually since 1929 .
Award winners
George M. Kober Lectureship
- 1925: John J. Abel , Baltimore
- 1928: Simon Flexner , New York
- 1931: Frederick George Novy , Ann Arbor
- 1934: Walter B. Cannon , Boston
- 1937: Ludvig Hectoen , Chicago
- 1940: William George MacCallum , Baltimore
- 1943: Eugene L. Opie , New York
- 1946: Peyton Rous , New York
- 1949: Homer F. Swift , New York
- 1952: Arthur L. Bloomfield , San Francisco
- 1955: James Howard Means , Boston
- 1958: Homer W. Smith , New York
- 1961: Rene J. Dubos , New York
- 1964: Frank L. Horsfall , Jr., New York
- 1967: Francis D. Lukens , Pittsburgh
- 1970: Robert A. Good , Minneapolis
- 1973: Lewis Thomas , New York
- 1977: Arno G. Motulsky , Seattle
- 1980: Grant W. Liddle , Nashville
- 1982: Bengt Samuelsson , Stockholm
- 1985: Oscar D. Ratnoff , Cleveland
- 1988: Anthony S. Fauci , Bethesda
- 1991: Philip W. Majerus , St. Louis
- 1994: Bert Vogelstein , Baltimore
- 1997: Mark Keating , Salt Lake City
- 2000: Francis Collins , Bethesda
- 2003: Stanley Korsmeyer , Boston
- 2006: Robert Lefkowitz , Durham
- 2009: Michael Welsh , Iowa City
- 2012: Barry S. Coller , New York
- 2015: Fr. Frederick Sparling , Chapel Hill
- 2018: Helen H. Hobbs
George M. Kober Medal
- 1929 George R. Minot
- 1930 James B. Herrick
- 1931 Henry Sewall
- 1932 Elliott P. Joslin
- 1933 Alfred N. Richards
- 1934 John Jacob Abel
- 1935 Frank B. Mallory
- 1936 ER Baldwin
- 1937 William H. Park
- 1938 Rufus Cole
- 1939 George H. Whipple
- 1940 Frederick F. Russell
- 1941 William de B. MacNider
- 1942 Donald D. Van Slyke
- 1943 Ernest W. Goodpasture
- 1945 Oswald T. Avery
- 1947 Eugene Floyd DuBois
- 1948 Warfield T. Longcope
- 1949 Alphonse R. Dochez
- 1950 Edwards A. Park
- 1951 James L. Gamble
- 1952 Edward C. Kendall
- 1953 Peyton Rous
- 1954 Herbert S. Gasser
- 1955 William C. Stadie
- 1956 Stanley Cobb
- 1957 Richard E. Shope
- 1958 Arnold R. Rich
- 1959 Robert F. Loeb
- 1960 David Marine
- 1961 Oswald Hope Robertson (1886–1966)
- 1962 William Bosworth Castle
- 1963 John R. Paul
- 1964 J. Howard Means
- 1965 Joseph T. Wearn
- 1966 Joseph C. Aub
- 1967 Isaac Starr
- 1968 Tinsley R. Harrison
- 1969 Dana W. Atchley
- 1970 Dickinson W. Richards
- 1971 W. Barry Wood, Jr.
- 1972 Cecil J. Watson
- 1973 Paul B. Beeson
- 1974 Maxwell M. Wintrobe
- 1975 Walsh McDermott
- 1976 George W. Thorn
- 1977 Robert H. Williams
- 1978 Maxwell Finland
- 1979 Franz J. Ingelfinger
- 1980 Eugene A. Stead
- 1981 A. McGehee Harvey
- 1982 James A. Shannon
- 1983 Lewis Thomas
- 1984 Robert W. Berliner
- 1985 Donald W. Seldin
- 1986 Lloyd H. Smith, Jr.
- 1987 Helen B. Taussig
- 1988 Oscar D. Ratnoff
- 1989 Maclyn McCarty
- 1990 Victor A. McKusick
- 1991 James B. Wyngaarden
- 1992 E. Donnall Thomas
- 1993 Arnold S. Relman
- 1994 David M. Kipnis
- 1995 Alexander Leaf
- 1996 Robert Petersdorf
- 1997 Helen Ranney
- 1998 Eugene Braunwald
- 1999 Jean Wilson
- 2000 J. Claude Bennett
- 2001 Kurt J. Isselbacher
- 2002 Michael Stuart Brown , Joseph L. Goldstein
- 2003 Leon E. Rosenberg
- 2004 K. Frank Austen
- 2005 William N. Kelley
- 2006 David G. Nathan
- 2007 Anthony Fauci
- 2008 Samuel O. Thier
- 2009 Francois Abboud
- 2010 Stuart Kornfeld
- 2011 Robert Lefkowitz
- 2012 Arthur H. Rubenstein
- 2013 John T. Potts, Jr.
- 2014 Elizabeth G. Nabel
- 2015 Francis Collins
- 2016 Peter Agre
- 2017 Laurie H. Glimcher
- 2018 Stuart H. Orkin
- 2019 C. Ronald Kahn
- 2020 Michael J. Welsh
Web links
- George M. Kober Medal and Lectureship (aap-online.org)