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The Florey Lecture was a lecture organised by the Royal Society of London.

List of lecturers

YearNameLectureNotes
1982 Andrew Fielding Huxley Discovery: accident of design?
1983 Frank John Fenner Biological control, as exemplified by smallpox eradication and myxomatosis.
1984 Arnold Stanley Vincent Burgen Order and disorder: targets for drug action.
1985 Gustav Joseph Victor Nossal The regulatory biology of antibody formation.
1986 Michael Anthony Epstein Vaccine prevention of virus-induced human cancers.
1987 Rodney Robert Porter Corticomotoneuronal projections: synaptic events related to skilled movement.
1988 John Bertrand Gurdon How an egg makes an embryo: the initiation of cell differentiation.
1989 Antony Basten  [ Wikidata ]Self-tolerance: the key to autoimmunity.
1990 Paul Nurse How is the cell cycle regulated?
1991 Donald Metcalf The colony stimulating factors: discovery to clinical use.
1992 Hugh Pelham The secretion of protein by cells.

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