Lister medal

Lister Medal 1930

The Lister Medal ( Lister Medal ) is a prize of the Royal College of Surgeons of England for services to the surgery . It is named after Joseph Lister . After Lister's death, money was raised to honor his memory (Lister Memorial Fund) and the award was initially awarded by the Royal Society but administered by the Royal College of Surgeons from 1920 onwards. The award committee includes representatives from the Royal Society, the Royal College of Surgeons of England, the Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland and the Universities of Edinburgh and Glasgow .

The prize is awarded to surgeons of all nationalities and was originally awarded every three years, but now also at longer intervals. It is associated with a sum of money and a bronze medal and, since 1984, a gold medal. The award winner gives a lecture (usually the following year), the Lister Oration or Lister Memorial Lecture . They were published in the British Medical Journal until 1948 and then in the Annals of the Royal College of Surgeons (and some separately as books).

The prize was first awarded in 1924. There were 27 award winners by 2015.

Award winners

Graeme Clark (right) receives the Lister Medal in 2010 from the President of the Royal College of Surgeons of England John Black (left)

The title of the lister lecture is also listed

• 1924 William Watson Cheyne , On Lister's Great Achievement
• 1927 Anton Eiselsberg , Lister: A continental appreciation
• 1930 Harvey Cushing , Neurohypophysial mechanisms from a clinical standpoint
• 1933 Charles Alfred Ballance , On Nerve Surgery
• 1936 Robert Muir , Malignancy with illustrations from the pathology of the mamma
• 1939 René Leriche , The Listerian Idea in the Year 1939
• 1942 Evarts Graham , Some Aspects of Bronchiogenic Carcinoma
• 1945 Howard Walter Florey , The Use of Micro-organisms for Therapeutic Purposes
• 1948 Geoffrey Jefferson , The Mind of Mechanical Man
• 1951 James Learmonth , After Fifty-Six Years
• 1954 Victor Ewings Negus , The Comparative Anatomy and Physiology of the Respiratory Tract in Relation to Clinical Problems
• 1957 Stewart Duke-Elder , The Emergence of Vision in the Animal World
• 1960 Wilder Penfield , Activation of the Record of Human Experience
• 1963 Charles Illingworth , On the Interdependence of Science and the Healing Art
• 1966 Russell Brock , Surgery and Lister
• 1969 Michael Woodruff , Biological aspects of individuality
• 1972 John Webster Kirklin , An Academic Surgeon's Work
• 1975 John Charnley , Aspects of total asepsis in the operating room with special reference to clean air systems
• 1978 Francis Daniels Moore , Science and service
• 1981 John Cedric Goligher , The Skeptical Surgeon
• 1984 Roy Yorke Calne , Organ transplantation: from laboratory to clinic
• 1987 Patrick Forrest , Breast cancer: 121 years on
• 1990 Harold Hopkins , The development of the modern endoscope
• 1994 Norman Shumway
• 1997 Peter John Morris
• 2010 Graeme Clark , What can electrical stimulation with a cochlear implant tell us about Brain Function and Human Consciousness?
• 2015 Magdi Yacoub

literature

• Marguerite Wright Dupree: From mourning to scientific legacy: commemorating Lister in London and Scotland. In: Notes and Records of the Royal Society. 67, 2013, pp. 261–280, doi : 10.1098 / rsnr.2013.0038 . PMC 3744356 (free full text)

Web links

• Royal College of Surgeons of England

Individual evidence

1. ^ Lister and his Achievement
2. ^ Professor Sir Magdi Yacoub wins prestigious Lister Medal - The Royal College of Surgeons of England. In: rcseng.ac.uk. September 19, 2015, accessed September 23, 2015 .