The Marjory Stephenson Prize is the principal prize of the Society for General Microbiology, awarded for an outstanding contribution of current importance in microbiology.
Marjory Stephenson was the second president of the Society for General Microbiology (1947 - 1949) and a distinguished pioneer of chemical microbiology.
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1953 Donald Devereux Woods,The Integration of Research on the Nutrition and Metabolism of Micro-organisms1955 Cornelius Van Niel, Natural Selection in the Microbial World1957 André Michel Lwoff, The Concept of Virus1959 G.S. Wilson, Faults and Fallacies in Microbiology1961 Bert C.J.G. Knight, The Growth of Microbiology1963 M. Robertson, Some Aspects of the Protozoa and Their Way of Life1965 Sir Christopher Andrewes, The Troubles of a Virus1967 Sidney Reuben Elsden, Energy Relations and Fermentations, 1930–19671969 Jacques Monod, The Bacterial Cell as a Cybernetic System1971 Ernest Frederick Gale, Don't Talk to Me about Permeability1973 Renato Dulbecco, Cell Transformation by Viruses and the Role of Viruses in Cancer1975 Ephraim Saul Anderson, Push Hard - or How to Promote Resistance1977 Jean-Marie Ghuysen, The Concept of the Penicillin Target from 1965 until Today1979 D. Herbert, These Narrow Engines...1981 Patricia H. Clarke, Adaptation1983 Milton R.J. Salton, From Walls to Membranes1985 Peter Wildy, Little Fleas and Lesser Fleas1987 David A.J. Tyrrell, The Common Cold - My Favourite Infection1990 Paul M. Nurse (now Sir Paul), On Fission1992 John R. Guest, Oxygen-regulated Gene Expression in E. coli1994 Anthony P.J. (Tony) Trinci, Evolution of the Quorn Myco-protein Fungus Fusarium graminearum1996 Keith Gull, Oneness and Otherness in Eukaryotic Microbes1998 Rudolf Thauer, Biochemistry of Methanogenesis2000 D. W. Holden, In vivo Genetic Analysis of Salmonella Virulence2002 Stewart Thomas Cole, Comparative and Functional Genomics of Mycobacterium tuberculosis2004 Stanley Falkow, Thoughts on Persistent Bacterial Infections2006 Sir John Skehel, Invasion by Influenza Viruses2008 Alan B. Rickinson, Studies with an Oncogenic Virus: How to Survive a Lifetime with EBV2010 Jan Tommassen, Assembly of outer membrane proteins in bacteria and mitochondria2012 Yuan Chang & Patrick S. Moore, Old Themes and New Variations in Human Tumor Virology2014 Laura Piddock, Understanding the Basis of Antibiotic Resistance as a Platform for Early Drug Discovery2015 Robin Weiss, What's the host and what's the microbe?2016 Steve Oliver, Petri plates to Petri nets: the path to systems microbiologyIn 1988, the Marjory Stephenson Memorial Lecture was renamed the Marjory Stephenson Prize Lecture. Copies of most of these lectures can be found on the Society for General Microbiology's webpage
