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Encyclopedia > Flavelle Medal

The Flavelle Medal is an award of the Royal Society of Canada "for an outstanding contribution to biological science during the preceding ten years or for significant additions to a previous outstanding contribution to biological science". It is named in honour of Joseph Wesley Flavelle and is awarded bi-annually. The award consists of a gold plated silver medal. The Royal Society of Canada, (French: La Société royale du Canada) The Canadian Academy of the Sciences and Humanities, is the senior national body of distinguished Canadian scientists and scholars. ...


Recipients

  • 2004 - Brian D. Sykes, FRSC
  • 2002 - Lewis E. Kay
  • 2000 - David R. Jones, FRSC
  • 1998 - Anthony Pawson, FRSC
  • 1996 - Ian C.P. Smith, FRSC
  • 1994 - Robert J. Cedergren, MSRC
  • 1992 - Michael Smith, FRSC
  • 1990 - Peter W. Hochachka, FRSC
  • 1988 - Robert H. Haynes, FRSC
  • 1986 - G.H.N. Towers, FRSC
  • 1984 - Robert G.E. Murray, FRSC
  • 1982 - Clayton O. Person, FRSC
  • 1980 - Gordon H. Dixon, FRSC
  • 1978 - Louis Siminovitch, FRSC
  • 1976 - Michael Shaw, FRSC
  • 1974 - Juda Hirsh Quastel, FRSC
  • 1972 - D. Harold Copp, FRSC
  • 1970 - William Edwin Ricker, FRSC
  • 1968 - Jacques Genest, MSRC
  • 1966 - Erich Baer, FRSC
  • 1965 - William Stewart Hoar, FRSC
  • 1964 - Gleb Krotkov, FRSC
  • 1963 - Robert James Rossiter, FRSC
  • 1962 - Frederick Ernest Joseph Fry, FRSC
  • 1961 - Charles Philippe Leblond, FRSC
  • 1960 - Edmund Murton Walker, FRSC
  • 1959 - Murray L. Barr, FRSC
  • 1958 - Allan Grant Lochhead, FRSC
  • 1957 - Thomas Wright M. Cameron, FRSC
  • 1956 - George Lyman Duff, FRSC
  • 1955 - Charles Samuel Hanes, FRSC
  • 1954 - David Aylmer Scott, FRSC
  • 1953 - Everitt George Dunne Murray, FRSC
  • 1952 - Archibald G. Huntsman, FRSC
  • 1951 - Wilder G. Penfield, FRSC
  • 1950 - Charles Herbert Best, FRSC
  • 1949 - W.P. Thompson, FRSC
  • 1948 - Margaret Newton, FRSC
  • 1947 - Guilford Bevil Reed, FRSC
  • 1946 - William Rowan, FRSC
  • 1945 - Robert Boyd Thomson, FRSC
  • 1944 - Velyien Ewart Henderson, FRSC
  • 1943 - B.P. Babkin, FRSC
  • 1942 - John Hubert Craigie, FRSC
  • 1941 - Thomas Leonard Walker, FRSC
  • 1940 - Robert William Boyle, FRSC
  • 1939 - James Playfair McMurrich, FRSC
  • 1938 - W. Lash Miller, FRSC
  • 1937 - Frank D. Adams, FRSC
  • 1936 - J.B. Collip, FRSC
  • 1935 - Frank T. Shutt, FRSC
  • 1934 - Louis Vessot King, FRSC
  • 1933 - Joseph Burr Tyrrell, FRSC
  • 1932 - John Stanley Plaskett, FRSC
  • 1931 - Sir Frederick Banting, FRSC
  • 1930 - Archibald Byron Macallum, FRSC
  • 1929 - Arthur Henry Reginald Buller, FRSC
  • 1928 - Arthur Philemon Coleman, FRSC
  • 1927 - Sir Arthur G. Doughty, FRSC
  • 1926 - Sir John C. McLennan, FRSC
  • 1925 - Sir Charles E. Saunders, FRSC

Dr. Anthony James Pawson Anthony James Pawson, O.C., Ph. ... Michael Smith, C.C., O.B.C., Ph. ... Louis (Lou) Siminovitch (born May 15, 1920) is a Canadian molecular biologist. ... Dr. Douglas Harold Copp, CC, MD, Ph. ... Jacques Genest (born May 29, 1919, Montreal, Quebec) is a Canadian physician and scientist. ... Murray Llewellyn Barr (June 20, 1908 – May 4, 1995) was a Canadian physician and medical researcher, who discovered, in 1948, an important cell structure, the Barr body. Born in Belmont, Ontario, he was educated at the University of Western Ontario, where he received his B.A. in 1930, M.D... Charles Herbert Best (February 27, 1899 _ March 31, 1978) was a medical scientist. ... Frank Dawson Adams (1859 - 1942) was a Canadian geologist. ... John Stanley Plaskett (November 17, 1865 – October 17, 1941) was a Canadian astronomer. ... Sir Frederick Banting Sir Frederick Grant Banting, KBE , FRSC (November 14, 1891 – February 21, 1941) was a Canadian medical scientist, doctor and Nobel laureate noted as one of the co-discoverers of insulin. ...

References

  • Flavelle Medal. The Royal Society of Canada.  URL accessed on June 6, 2005.

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The Royal Society of Canada : Flavelle Medal Award (17114 words)
The Flavelle Medal is awarded to Dr. Michael Shaw for his outstanding research on rust fungi, which cause severe economic losses in wheat and flax.
He was awarded in 1930 the gold medal of the Royal Astronomical Society and the Rumford gold medal of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences; and in 1932 the Bruce gold medal of the Astronomical Society of the Pacific.
It is a special pleasure to award the Flavelle medal to a former President of this society (1916-17).
Guilford Bevil Reed (507 words)
In 1942 he was awarded the O.B.E. for the study of methods of control of gas gangrene, for identification of causal organisms of gas gangrene, as well as for research in anaerobic bacteria generally.
In 1947 he was awarded the US Medal with Palm, largely for his work in rinderpest, and the US Medal of Freedom, bronze palm, for outstanding and exceptionally meritorious service, which contributed greatly to the advancement of the war effort of the United Nations.
The same year he was also awarded the Flavelle Medal of Canada for war research in gas gangrene, rinderpest and a general contribution to bacteriological research over the years.
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