Master awarded Royal Medal of Royal Society

The Master, Professor Christopher Dobson FRS, has been awarded a Royal Medal for'œhis outstanding contributions to the understanding of the mechanisms of protein folding and mis-folding, and the implications for diseases.

Three Royal Medals, known also as the Queen's Medals, are awarded annually by the Sovereign upon the recommendation of the Council of the Royal Society,'œtwo for the most important contributions to the advancement of Natural Knowledge (one in the physical and one in the biological sciences) and the other for distinguished contributions in the applied sciences.

The first Royal Medal was awarded in 1826 and previous recipients include no less than thirty-eight Johnians including John Herschel (1836), Joseph Larmor (1915), William Bateson (1920), Paul Dirac (1939), Harold Jeffreys (1948), John Cockroft (1954), Frederick Sanger (1969), Fred Hoyle (1974), Abdus Salam (1978), Roger Penrose (1985) and Robert Hinde (1996).