E. B. Wilson Medal
Encyclopedia
The American Society for Cell Biology's highest honor for science, the E.B. Wilson Medal is presented at the Annual Meeting of the Society for significant and far-reaching contributions to cell biology
over the course of a career. It is named after Edmund Beecher Wilson
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Cell biology
Cell biology is a scientific discipline that studies cells – their physiological properties, their structure, the organelles they contain, interactions with their environment, their life cycle, division and death. This is done both on a microscopic and molecular level...
over the course of a career. It is named after Edmund Beecher Wilson
Edmund Beecher Wilson
Edmund Beecher Wilson was a pioneering American zoologist and geneticist. He wrote one of the most famous textbooks in the history of modern biology, The Cell.- Career :...
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Medalists
The following are the recipients of the E. B. Wilson medal:- 2010 Stuart Kornfeld, James RothmanJames RothmanJames E. Rothman is the Fergus F. Wallace Professor of Biomedical Sciences at Yale University and at Yale University Medical School. He has received many honors, including the Louisa Gross Horwitz Prize from Columbia University and the Albert Lasker Award for Basic Medical Research both in 2002...
, Randy SchekmanRandy SchekmanRandy W. Schekman is an American cell biologist at the University of California, Berkeley and Editor-in-Chief of Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. In 2011 he was announced as the editor of a new high profile open access journal published by the Howard Hughes Medical Institute, the...
, and Jared Winters - 2009 Peter WalterPeter WalterPeter Walter is a German-American molecular biologist and biochemist. He earned a B.S. degree in chemistry from the Free University of Berlin, an M.S. degree in organic chemistry from Vanderbilt University, and a Ph.D. in biochemistry from the Rockefeller University...
- 2008 Martin ChalfieMartin ChalfieMartin Chalfie is an American scientist. He is the William R. Kenan, Jr. Professor of Biological Sciences at Columbia University, where he is also chair of the department of biological sciences. He shared the 2008 Nobel Prize in Chemistry along with Osamu Shimomura and Roger Y. Tsien "for the...
and Roger Tsien - 2007 Richard O. Hyne and Zena Werb
- 2006 Joel RosenbaumJoel RosenbaumJoel Rosenbaum is a professor of cell biology at Yale University .Rosenbaum received his bachelor's degree from Syracuse University in 1955, and later his M.Sc. Ed. from St. Lawrence University in 1957. He returned later to Syracuse for his Masters in 1959 and Ph.D...
- 2005 Joan A. SteitzJoan A. SteitzJoan Argetsinger Steitz is a molecular biologist at Yale University, famed for her discoveries involving RNA, including ground-breaking insights such as that ribosomes interact with mRNA by complementary base pairing and that introns are spliced by snRNPs, small nuclear ribonucleoproteins which...
- 2004 Thomas D. Pollard
- 2003 Marc KirschnerMarc KirschnerProfessor Marc W. Kirschner is an American cell biologist.- Biography :Kirschner graduated from Northwestern University in 1966 and in 1971 received his doctorate from the University of California, Berkeley. He held post-doc positions at Berkeley and at the University of Oxford in England. He...
- 2002 Avram HershkoAvram HershkoAvram Hershko is a Hungarian-Israeli biochemist and Nobel laureate in Chemistry.-Biography:Born Herskó Ferenc in Karcag, Hungary, Hershko emigrated to Israel in 1950. Received his M.D. in 1965 and his Ph.D in 1969 from the Hebrew University-Hadassah Medical School, Jerusalem, Israel...
and Alexander VarshavskyAlexander VarshavskyAlexander Varshavsky is a Russian-American biochemist and recipient of the Albert Lasker Award for Basic Medical Research, the Wolf Prize in Medicine and the Louisa Gross Horwitz Prize from Columbia University in 2001 for his research on ubiquitination... - 2001 Elizabeth BlackburnElizabeth BlackburnElizabeth Helen Blackburn, AC, FRS is an Australian-born American biological researcher at the University of California, San Francisco, who studies the telomere, a structure at the end of chromosomes that protects the chromosome. Blackburn co-discovered telomerase, the enzyme that replenishes the...
- 2000 Walter Neupert and Gottfried SchatzGottfried SchatzGottfried Schatz is a Swiss - Austrian biochemist. He played a leading role in elucidating the biogenesis of mitochondria and was a co-discoverer of mitochondrial DNA.- Life and career :...
- 1999 Edwin Taylor
- 1998 James DarnellJames DarnellJames T. Darnell is a professional baseball player in the San Diego Padres organization. He was drafted in the second round of the 2008 Major League Baseball Draft.-High school:...
and Sheldon Penman - 1997 John C. Gerhart
- 1996 Donald D. Brown
- 1995 Bruce Nicklas
- 1994 Barbara Gibbons and Ian Gibbons
- 1993 Hans Ris
- 1992 Shinya InoueShinya Inouéis a biophysicist, member of the National Academy of Sciences. His research field is the visualization of dynamic processes within living cells using the light microscope. Currently he is a researcher at the Marine Biological Laboratory....
- 1991 S. Jonathan Singer
- 1990 Morris Karnovsky
- 1989 Christian de DuveChristian de DuveChristian René, viscount de Duve is a Nobel Prize-winning cytologist and biochemist. De Duve was born in Thames Ditton, Surrey, Great Britain, as a son of Belgian refugees. They returned to Belgium in 1920...
- 1988 Elizabeth Hay
- 1987 Marilyn FarquharMarilyn FarquharMarilyn Gist Farquhar is a pathologist and cellular biologist with a doctorate from the University of California, Berkeley. She has won the E. B. Wilson Medal and the FASEB Excellence in Science Award. She worked at Yale University from 1973 to 1990. She was married to Nobel Laureate George Emil...
- 1986 Gunter BlobelGünter Blobel-Biography:Blobel was born in Waltersdorf in the Prussian Province of Lower Silesia. In January 1945 his family fled from native Silesia from the advancing Red Army. On their way to the West they passed through the beautiful old city of Dresden, which left deep impressions in the young boy...
and David Sabatini - 1985 Hewson Swift
- 1984 Harry EagleHarry EagleHarry Eagle was an American physician and pathologist. He studied, and later worked, at Johns Hopkins University before moving on to the National Institutes of Health. From 1961 to 1988 he worked at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine...
and Theodore PuckTheodore PuckTheodore Puck was an American geneticist born in Chicago, Illinois. He attended Chicago public schools and obtained his bachelors, masters, and doctoral degree from the University of Chicago... - 1983 Joseph GallJoseph G. GallJoseph Grafton Gall is an American cell biologist and winner of the 2006 Albert Lasker Special Achievement Award. He also won the 2007 Louisa Gross Horwitz Prize...
and Hugh HuxleyHugh HuxleyHugh Esmor Huxley FRS is a British biologist. He is professor of biology at Brandeis University, in Waltham, Massachusetts, United States.... - 1982 Charles LeblondCharles LeblondCharles Philippe Leblond, was a pioneer of cell biology and stem cell research and a former Canadian professor of anatomy...
and Alex Novikoff - 1981 Daniel MaziaDaniel MaziaDaniel Mazia was an American cell biologist, best known for his 1951 research with Katsuma Dan that isolated the cell structures responsible for mitosis....
, George Palade, and Keith PorterKeith R. PorterKeith Roberts Porter was a Canadian cell biologist. He did pioneering biology research using electron microscopy of cells , such as work on the 9 + 2 microtubule structure in the axoneme of cilia. Porter also contributed to the development of other experimental methods for cell culture and nuclear...