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1979 Setsuro Ebashi: Regulation of muscle contraction.
1978 Michael Abercrombie: Crawling movements of metazoan cells.
1977 John William Sutton Pringle: Stretch activation of muscle: function and mechanism.
1976 John Bertrand Gurdon: Egg cytoplasm and gene control in development.
1975 Frederick Sanger: Nucleotide sequences.
1974 John Heslop-Harrison: The physiology of the spore surface.
1973 Eric James Denton: On buoyancy and the lives of modern and fossil cephalopods.
1972 Nikolaas Tinbergen: Functional ethology and the human sciences.
1971 Henry Harris: Cell fusion and the analysis of malignancy.
1970 Hugh Esmor Huxley: The structural basis of muscular contraction.
1969 Frederick Campion Steward: From cultured cells to whole plants: the induction and control of their growth and morphogenesis.
1968 Max Ferdinand Perutz: The haemoglobin molecule.
1967 Andrew Fielding Huxley: The activation of striated muscle and its mechanical response.
1966 Francis Harry Compton Crick: The genetic code.
1965 John Zachary Young: The organization of a memory system.
1964 George Lindor Brown: The release and fate of the transmitter liberated by adrenergic nerves.
1963 Hans Adolf Krebs: Gluconeogenesis.
1962 Frank George Young: On insulin and its action.
1961 Bernard Katz: The transmission of impulses from nerve to muscle, and the subcellular unit of synaptic action.
1960 Harry Godwin: Radiocarbon dating and Quaternary history inBritain.
1959 Walter Thomas James Morgan: A contribution to human biochemical genetics: the chemical basis of blood group specificity.
1958 Peter Brian Medawar: The homograph reaction.
1957 Alan Lloyd Hodgkin: Ionic movements and electrical activity in giant nerve fibres.
1956 Frederic Charles Bartlett: Some experiments about thinking.
1955 Charles Herbert Best: Dietary factors in the protection of the liver, kidneys, heart and other organs in experimental animals. The lipotropic agents.
1954 Howard Walter Florey: Mucins and the protection of the body.
1953 Ronald Aylmer Fisher: Population genetics.
1952 Carl Frederick Abel Pantin: The elementary nervous system.
1951 Rudolph Albert Peters: Lethal synthesis.
1950 Frank Macfarlane Burnet: The interaction of virus and cell-surface.
1949 Detlev Wulf Bronk: The rhythmic action and respiration of nerve cells.
1948 Vincent Brian Wigglesworth: Insects as a medium for the study of physiology.
1947 Ernest Basil Verney: The antidiuretic hormone and the factors which determine its release.
1946 John Burdon Sanderson Haldane: The formal genetics of Man.
1945 William Thomas Astbur:y The structure of biological fibres and the problem of muscle.
1944 Charles Robert Harington: Thyroxine: its biosynthesis and its immuno-chemistry.
1943 Edward Mellanby: Nutrition in relation to bone growth and the nervous sytem.
1942 Lancelot Hogben: Chromatic behaviour.
1941 William Whiteman Carlton Topley: The biology of epidemics.
1940 Schack August Steenberg Krogh: The active and passive exchange of inorganic ions through the surfaces of living cells and through living membranes generally.
1939 James Gray: Aspects of animal locomotion.
1938 Alfred Newton Richards: Processes of urine formation.
1937 Henry Horatio Dixon The transport of materials in plants.
1936 Francis Hugh Adam Marshall: Sexual periodicity and the causes which determine it.
1935 Joseph Barcroft: Foetal respiration.
1934 David Keilin: Mechanisms of cellular respiration.
1933 Ross Granville Harrison: The origin and development of the nervous system studied by the methods of experimental embryology.
1932 Davidson Black: The discovery of Sinanthropus.
1931 Edgar Douglas Adrian: The messages in sensory nerve fibres and their interpretation.
1930 Jules Bordet: Theories of the bacteriophage.
1929 James Peter Hill: The developmental history of the primates.
1928 Ivan Petrovitch Pavlov: Certain problems in the physiology of the cerebral hemispheres.
1927 Hans Spemann: Organisers in animal development.
1926 Archibald Vivian Hill: The laws of muscular motion.
1925 Rudolf Magnus: Animal posture.
1924 David Meredith Seares Watson: The origin of the amphibia.
1923 Frederick Frost Blackman: The problem of plant respiration considered as a catalytic process.
1922 Thomas Hunt Morgan: On the mechanism of heredity.
1921 Henry Head: Release of function in the nervous system.
1920 William Bateson: Genetic segregation.
1919 Henry Hallett Dale: The biological significance of anaphylaxis.
1918 Walter B Cannon: The physiological basis of thirst.
1917 Thomas Lewis: Upon the motion of the mammalian heart.
1916 Sydney John Hickson: Evolution and symmetry in the order of the sea-pens.
1915 Walter Morley Fletcher & Frederick Gowland Hopkins: The respiratory process in muscle; and the nature of muscular motion.
1914 Edmund Beecher Wilson: The bearing of cytological research on heredity.
1913 Robert Broom: The origin of mammals.
1912 Keith Lucas: The process of excitation in nerve and muscle.
1911 Thomas Gregor Brodie: A new conception of the glomerular activity.
1910 Georg Klebs: Alterations in the development and forms of plants as a result of environment.
1909 Edward Albert Schafer: The functions of the pituitary body.
1908 Gustaf Retzius: The principles of the minute structure of the nervous system as revealed by recent investigations.
1907 John Bretland Farmer: Structural constituents of the nucleus, and their relation to the organization of the individual.
1906 John Newport Langley: On nerve endings and on special excitable substances in cells.
1905 William Bate Hardy On the globulins.
1904 Ernest Henry Starling & William Maddock Bayliss: The chemical regulation of the secretory process.
1903 C Timiriazeff: The cosmical function of the green plant.
1902 Arthur Gamgee: On certain chemical and physical properties of haemoglobin.
1901 C Lloyd Morgan: Studies in visual sensation.
1900 Paul Ehrlich: On immunity with special reference to cell life.
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