Marjory Stephenson Prize | |
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Awarded for | outstanding contribution of current importance in microbiology. |
Presented by | Society for General Microbiology |
First awarded | 1953 |
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.
Source: Society for General Microbiology
In 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