George M. Kober Medal and Lectureship

The George M. Kober Medal and Lectureship are two different awards by the Association of American Physicians (AAP) in honor of one of its early presidents, George M. Kober. The George M. Kober Lectureship, is an honor given to an AAP member "for outstanding research contributions which have extraordinary impact on patients"; beginning in 1925, the Lectureship has been awarded every three years. The George M. Kober Medal, started in 1927, has, beginning in 1929, been awarded annually (except for 1944 and 1946) to an AAP member "whose lifetime efforts have had an enormous impact ..."^[1]

Prize winners

George M. Kober Lectureship

1925: John J. Abel, Baltimore
1928: Simon Flexner, New York
1931: Frederick George Novy, Ann Arbor
1934: Walter B. Cannon, Boston
1937: Ludvig Hektoen, Chicago
1940: William George MacCallum, Baltimore
1943: Eugene L. Opie, New York
1946: Peyton Rous, New York
1949: Homer F. Swift, New York
1952: Arthur L. Bloomfield, San Francisco
1955: James Howard Means, Boston
1958: Homer W. Smith, New York
1961: Rene J. Dubos, New York
1964: Frank L. Horsfall, Jr., New York
1967: Francis D. Lukens, Pittsburgh
1970: Robert A. Good, Minneapolis
1973: Lewis Thomas, New York
1977: Arno G. Motulsky, Seattle
1980: Grant W. Liddle, Nashville
1982: Bengt Samuelsson, Stockholm
1985: Oscar D. Ratnoff, Cleveland
1988: Anthony S. Fauci, Bethesda
1991: Philip W. Majerus, St. Louis
1994: Bert Vogelstein, Baltimore
1997: Mark Keating, Salt Lake City
2000: Francis Collins, Bethesda
2003: Stanley Korsmeyer, Boston
2006: Robert Lefkowitz, Durham
2009: Michael J. Welsh, Iowa City
2012: Barry S. Coller, New York
2015: P. Frederick Sparling, Chapel Hill
2018: Helen H. Hobbs, Dallas
2021: Jean Bennett, Pennsylvania