Henry Hill Hickman Medal

Description

The Henry Hill Hickman Medal, is awarded every three years to individuals for original work of outstanding merit in anaesthesia. It is awarded by the by the Council of the Royal Society of Medicine on the recommendation of the Council of the Section of Anaesthetics.

History

In 1931, England’s Royal Society of Medicine founded the Henry Hill Hickman Medal in honour of Henry Hill Hickman (1800-1830). The first medal was awarded in 1935 to the Canadian anesthetist Wesley Bourne (1886 – 1965).

Recipients

• 2019 – John B Glenn
• 2016 – Martin Bromiley
• 2013 –
• 2010 – Sir Malcolm Keith Sykes (1925 – 2019)
• 2007 – John B. West (1928 – )
• 2004 –
• 2001 –
• 1998 – William Wellesley Mapleson (1926 – 2018)
• 1995 – John F. Nunn (1925 – )
• 1992 – Brian Arthur Sellick (1918 – 1996)
• 1989 – Gordon Jackson Rees (1918 – 2001)
• 1986 – Philip Raikes Bromage (1920 – 2013)
• 1983 – William Derek Wylie (1918 – 1998)
• 1980 – Andrew Rennie Hunter (1915 – 1991)
• 1977 – William Woolf Mushin (1910 – 1993)
• 1974 – John Alfred Lee (1906 – 1989)
• 1971 – Thomas Cecil Gray (1913 – 2008)
• 1968 – Jaume Raventós i Pijoan (1905-1982)
• 1965 – Christopher Langton Hewer (1896 – 1986)
• 1962 – Ronald Francis Woolmer (1908 – 1962)
• 1959 – Michael Denis Nosworthy (1902 – 1980)
• 1956 – Harold Randall Griffith (1894 – 1985)
• 1953 – John Gillies (1895 – 1976)
• 1950 – Robert James Minnitt (1889 – 1974)
• 1947 – Sir Robert Reynolds Macintosh (1897 – 1989)
• 1944 – Ralph Milton Waters (1883 – 1979)
• 1941 – Arthur Ernest Guedel (1883 – 1956)
• 1938 – Sir Ivan Whiteside Magill (1888 – 1986)
• 1935 – Wesley Bourne (1886 – 1965)

References

Dates and Data originally provided by Dr Geoff Nunn (2020)

• The Hickman Medal. Can Med Assoc J. 1935 Jul;33(1):81.
• Hickman Medal. Wood Library-Museum