# Physiological Society Annual Review Prize Lecture

The Physiology Society Annual Review Prize Lecture is an award conferred by The Physiological Society. First awarded in 1968, it is one of the premier awards of the society.

## Recipients

Recipients of the prize, and their lectures, have included:
* 1968 (1968): William D.M. Paton
* 1969 (1969): Geoffrey Harris (neuroendocrinologist)
* 1970 (1970): W. A. H. Rushton – Pigments and signals in colour vision
* 1971 (1971): Henry Barcroft – An enquiry into the nature of the mediator of the vasodilatation in skeletal muscle in exercise and during circulatory arrest
* 1972 (1972): John Eccles – The cerebellum as a computer: patterns in space and time
* 1973 (1973): Andrew F. Huxley – Muscular contraction
* 1974 (1974): A. A. Harper [Wikidata]
* 1975 (1975): Hugh Davson – The blood–brain barrier
* 1976 (1976): Alan Lloyd Hodgkin – Chance and design in electrophysiology: an informal account of certain experiments on nerve carried out between 1934 and 1952
* 1977 (1977): Raymond Michael Gaze
* 1978 (1978): K. W. Cross [Wikidata] – La Chaleur Animale and the infant brain (lecture delivered 1979)
* 1979 (1979): Geoffrey Burnstock – Neurotransmitters and trophic factors in the autonomic nervous system
* 1980 (1980): Peter Matthews (physiologist) – Evolving views on the internal operation and functional role of the muscle spindle
* 1981 (1981): H. H. Loeschke [Wikidata] – Central chemosensitivity and the reaction theory (Loeschche was unable to deliver his lecture owing to ill-health, but it was published)
* 1982 (1982): Geoffrey S. Dawes – The central control of fetal breathing and skeletal muscle movements
* 1983 (1983): Denis Noble – The surprising heart: a review of recent progress in cardiac electrophysiology
* 1984 (1984): Roger C. Thomas – Experimental displacement of intracellular pH and the mechanism of its subsequent recovery
* 1985 (1985): Daniel J. C. Cunningham [Wikidata] – Studies on arterial chemoreceptors in man
* 1986 (1986): David M. Armstrong [Wikidata] – The supraspinal control of mammalian locomotion
* 1987 (1987): Christopher C. Michel [Wikidata] – Capillary permeability and how it may change
* 1988 (1988): Pierre Dejours [Wikidata] – From comparative physiology of respiration to several problems of environmental adaptations and to evolution
* 1989 (1989): J. V. G. A. Durnin [Wikidata]
* 1990 (1990): Olga Hudlická – What makes blood vessels grow?
* 1991 (1991): Ole H. Petersen – Stimulus-secretion coupling: cytoplasmic calcium signals and the control of ion channels in exocrine acinar cells
* 1992 (1992): Ian M. Glynn – All hands to the sodium pump
* 1993 (1993): Kenneth M. Spyer [Wikidata] – Central nervous mechanisms contributing to cardiovascular control
* 1994 (1994): C. B. Wollheim [Wikidata]
* 1995 (1995): Colin Blakemore
* 1996 (1996): Michael J. Berridge – Elementary and global aspects of calcium signalling
* 1997 (1997): Lily Yeh Jan – Voltage-gated and inwardly rectifying potassium channels
* 1998 (1998): Nancy J. Rothwell – Cytokines – killers in the brain?
* 1999 (1999): Richard Alan North
* 2000 (2000): Francisco Bezanilla
* 2001 (2001): Stephen O'Rahilly
* 2002 (2002): John Sulston
* 2003 (2003): Frances M. Ashcroft
* 2004 (2004): Robin F. Irvine [Wikidata] – Inositide evolution – towards turtle domination?
* 2005 (2005): Graham J. Dockray
* 2006 (2006): M. Fishman [Wikidata] (Fishman was unable to deliver his lecture)
* 2007 (2007): T. B. Bolton [Wikidata]
* 2008 (2008): Robert G. Edwards (Edwards was unable to deliver his lecture)
* 2009 (2009): Stephen G. Waxman
* 2010 (2010): Roger Y. Tsien
* 2011 (2011): Carla J. Shatz
* 2012 (2012): Peter J. Ratcliffe – Oxygen sensing in animals
* 2013 (2013): Eric Gouaux – The molecular mechanisms of signaling at chemical synapses
* 2014 (2014): Richard W. Tsien – Excitation-transcription coupling: novel mechanisms and implications for brain disease
* 2015 (2015): Annette Dolphin – From trafficking of neuronal voltage-gated calcium channels to neuropathic pain
* 2016 (2016): John O'Keefe – The Cognitive Map Theory of Hippocampal Function: An update
* 2017 (2017): David Eisner – Ups and downs of calcium in the heart
* 2018 (2018): Juleen Zierath – Interplay between diet, exercise and the molecular circadian clock in orchestrating metabolic adaptations of adipose tissue
* 2019 (2019): Silvia Arber