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| Year | Recipient | Country | Lecture |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2022 | Professor Christine Nicol | United Kingdom | Whither hen welfare? |
| 2021 | No lecture | ||
| 2020 | No lecture | ||
| 2019 | Professor Paul Barrow | United Kingdom | Novel approaches to controlling bacterial infections |
| 2018 | Dr M. Bedford | United Kingdom | The evolution and application of enzymes in the animal feed industry: opportunities and misunderstandings |
| 2017 | Professor Dr R. Preisinger | Germany | Innovative layer genetics to handle global challenges in egg production |
| 2016 | Professor Dr M Hess | Austria | Commensal or pathogen – a challenge to fulfil Kochs postulates |
| 2015 | Professor R Gous | South Africa | The rewards of using a modelling approach in directing poultry research |
| 2014 | Professor P Kaiser | United Kingdom | Understanding host-pathogen interactions in the chicken: prospects for disease control in the post-genome age |
| 2013 | Dr P Hocking | United Kingdom | Unexpected consequences of genetic selection in broilers and turkeys: problems and solutions |
| 2012 | Dr Ilaria Capua | Italy | Three open issues on avian influenza – against all the odds |
| 2011 | Professor M.S. Dawkins | United Kingdom | Commercial scale research and assessment of animal welfare |
| 2010 | Professor E. Decuypere | Belgium | The broiler breeder paradox from the physiological, genetic and ethical viewpoint |
| 2009 | Professor R.C. Jones | United Kingdom | Viral respiratory diseases: are they ever under control? |
| 2008 | Professor Mingan Choct | Australia | Managing gut health through nutrition |
| 2007 | Professor K C Klasing | United States of America | Nutrition and the immune system |
| 2006 | Professor T Humphrey | United Kingdom | Are happy chickens safer chickens? Poultry welfare and disease susceptibility |
| 2005 | No lecture | ||
| 2004 | Professor J Bradbury | United Kingdom | Poultry mycoplasmas: sophisticated pathogens in simple guise |
| 2003 | Professor G Bulfield | United Kingdom | Poultry breeding in the post-genomics era |
| 2002 | Dr F Davison | United Kingdom | The immunologists debt to the chicken |
| 2001 | Professor IJH Duncan | Canada | Poultry welfare: science or subjectivity? |
| 2000 | Dr D J Alexander | United Kingdom | Newcastle disease |
| 1999 | Dr C C Whitehead | United Kingdom | Nutrition: The integrative science |
| 1998 | Professor S E Solomon | United Kingdom | An egg ist ein ei, es un huevo, est un oeuf |
| 1997 | Professor R Etches | Canada | A holistic view of poultry science from a reductionist perspective |
| 1996 | Professor M Stewart McNulty | United Kingdom | Chicken anaemia virus: a glimpse of the future? |
| 1995 | Professor T Morris | United Kingdom | Poultry science: The next 20 years? |
| 1994 | Professor H Siegel | United States of America | Stress, strains and resistance |
| 1993 | Dr L N Payne | United Kingdom | Problems and crusades: a history of poultry disease research in the United Kingdom |
| 1992 | Mr J Ewart | United Kingdom | Evolution of genetic selection techniques and their application in the next decade |
| 1991 | Professor B W Calnek | United States of America | Chicken neoplasia – a model for cancer research |
| 1990 | Dr A H J Visschedijk | Netherlands | Physics and physiology of incubation |
| 1989 | Professor P M Biggs | United Kingdom | Vaccines and vaccination – Past, present and future |
| 1988 | Professor P B Siegel | United States of America | The genetic-behavioural interface and well-being of poultry |
| 1987 | Dr W Hartmann | West Germany | From Mendel to multi-national in poultry breeding |
| 1986 | Professor E H Kampelmacher | Netherlands | Poultry disease and public health |
| 1985 | Dr M E Coates | United Kingdom | The biologists debt to the domestic fowl |
| 1984 | Dr F T W Jordan | United Kingdom | People, poultry and pathogenic mycoplasmas |
| 1983 | Professor P L Long | United States of America | Coccidiosis control: Past, present and future |