British Nobel Prize Winner in Physiology or Medicine

List of U.K. Nobel Prize Winner in Physiology or Medicine

Award winner Award Reason for the award
Peter Ratcliffe 2019 Together with the Americans Gregg Semenza and William George Kaelin for their discovery of the molecular mechanisms with which cells perceive the oxygen content and adapt to it.
John Michael O’Keefe
(born 1939)
2014 British-American neuroscientist, together with the Norwegian couple May-Britt and Edvard Moser for their outstanding work in researching the cellular basis for spatial orientation.
John Gurdon
(born 1933)
2012 Together with the Japanese Shin`ya Yamanaka:
For the reprogramming of adult body cells into a state
in which they can develop
into all kinds of tissue like embryonic stem cells. (iPS cells)
Robert Edwards
(born 1925)
2010 For his development of in vitro fertilization
Martin Evans
(born 1941)
2007 Together with US researchers Mario Capecchi and Oliver Smithies:
For groundbreaking discoveries in the field of embryonic stem cells
and DNA recombination in mammals
Peter Mansfield
(born 1933)
2003 Together with the American Paul Christian Lauterbur:
For their discoveries in relation to imaging with magnetic resonance
Sydney Brenner
(born 1927)
2002 Together with the American H. Robert Horvitz and the British John E. Sulston:
For their discoveries regarding the genetic regulation
of organ development and programmed cell dea
John E. Sulston
(born 1942)
2002 American H. Robert Horvitz and British Sydney Brenner:
For their discoveries regarding the genetic regulation of organ development
and programmed cell dea
Tim Hunt
(born 1943)
2001 Together with the American Leland H. Hartwell and the British Paul Nurse:
For their discoveries regarding the control of the cell cycle
Paul Nurse
(born 1949)
2001 Together with the American Leland H. Hartwell and the British Tim Hunt:
For their discoveries regarding the control of the cell cycle
Richard John Roberts
(born 1943)
1993 Together with the American Phillip Allen Sharp:
For their identification of the discontinuous structure of some genetic makeup of cell organisms
James Whyte Black
(1924-2010)
1988 Together with the Americans Gertrude Belle Elion and George Herbert Hitchings:
For their groundbreaking discoveries of important biochemical principles in drug therapy
César Milstein
(Argentine-British molecular biologist
(1927-2002)
1984 Together with the Dane Niels Kaj Jerne and the German Georges JF Köhler:
For theories about the specific structure and control of the immune system
and for the discovery of the principle of the production of monoclonal antibodies
John Robert Vane
(1927-2004)
1982 Together with Swedes Sune Bergström and Bengt Ingemar Samuelsson:
For their groundbreaking work on prostaglandins
and closely related biologically active substances
Godfrey Hounsfield
(1919-2004)
1979 Together with the American Allan McLeod Cormack:
For their development of the computed tomography
Nikolaas Tinbergen
(1907-1988)
1973 Together with the German Karl von Frisch and the Austrian Konrad Lorenz:
For their discoveries about the organization and triggering
of individual and social behavioral patterns
Rodney R. Porter
(1917-1985)
1972 Together with the American Gerald M. Edelman:
For their discoveries regarding the chemical structure of antibodies
Bernard Katz
(1911-2003)
1970 Together with the Swede Ulf von Euler and the American Julius Axelrod:
For their discoveries of the signal substances in the contact organs of the nerve cells
and the mechanisms for their storage, release and inactivation
Alan Lloyd Hodgkin
(1914-1998)
1963 Together with the Australian John Carew Eccles and the British Andrew Fielding Huxley:
For their discoveries about the ion mechanism that takes place
in the peripheral and central
areas of the nerve cell membrane during excitation and inhibition
Andrew Fielding Huxley
(1917-2012)
1963 Together with the Australian John Carew Eccles and the British Alan Lloyd Hodgkin:
For their discoveries about the ion mechanism that takes place
in the peripheral and central
areas of the nerve cell membrane during excitation and inhibition
Francis Crick
(1916-2004)
1962 Together with the Americans James Watson and Maurice Wilkins:
For their discoveries about the molecular structure of nucleic acids
and their importance for the transmission of information in living matter
Maurice Wilkins
(British New Zealand)
(1916-2004)
1962 Together with the Englishman Francis Crick and the American James Watson:
For their discoveries about the molecular structure of nucleic acids
and their importance for the transmission of information in living matter
Peter Brian Medawar
(1915-1987)
1960 Together with the Australian Frank Macfarlane Burnet:
For their discovery of acquired immunological tolerance
Hans Adolf Krebs
(1900-1981)
1953 For his discovery of the citric acid cycle
Alexander Fleming
(1881-1955)
1945 Together with Ernst Boris Chain and the Australian Howard W. Florey:
For the discovery of penicillin and its healing properties
in various infectious diseases
Ernst Boris Chain
(1906-1979)
1945 Together with Alexander Fleming and the Australian Howard W. Florey:
For the discovery of penicillin and its healing properties
in various infectious diseases
Henry Hallett Dale
(1875-1968)
1936 Together with the Austrian Otto Loewi:
For their discoveries in the chemical transmission of nerve impulses
Charles Scott Sherrington
(1857-1952)
1932 Together with his colleague Edgar Douglas Adrian:
For their discoveries in the field of the functions of neurons
Edgar Douglas Adrian
(1889-1977)
1932 Together with his colleague Charles Scott Sherrington:
For their discoveries in the field of the functions of neurons
Frederick Gowland Hopkins
(1861-1947)
1929 Together with the Dutchman Christiaan Eijkman:
For the discovery of the vitamins that promote grow
Archibald Vivian Hill
(1886-1977
Awarded in 1922, received in
1923
Together with the German Otto Fritz Meyerhof:
For his discoveries in the field of heat generation in muscles
Ronald Ross
(1857-1932)
1902 For his work on malaria, through which he demonstrated
how the disease gets into the organism
and thus laid the foundation for successful research into
this disease and its treatment methods

Ronald Ross

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