Medals



Medals awarded by the Company in recognition of outstanding contributions to the advancement of Visual Science and Award for Outstanding Service

The CROOK (Gold) Medal
(recognizing a lifetime's work of 'outstanding contribution to the understanding or improvement of vision' )

	1983	Sir Alan Hodgkin OM, FRS (and Nobel Prize winner)
	1985	Professor W D Wright DSc, ARCS, DIC
	1987	Harold Ridley Esquire MD, FRCS, FRS (later Sir Harold Ridley)
	1989	Professor Norman H Ashton CBE, DSc, FRCP, FRCS, FRS
	1993	Professor Horace Barlow MB, BCh, MD, ScD, FRS
	1996	Professor Richard Langton Gregory CBE, MA, DSc, LLD, FRS
	2001	Professor John Marshall BSc(Hons), PhD, HonFCOptom, FRSA
	2004	Professor Colin Blakemore PhD, ScD, FIBiol, F Med Sci, FRS.

The FINCHAM (Silver) Medal (recognizing outstanding contributions from those aged below 40)
	1995	Professor Neville McBrien PhD, FAAO, MCOptom, FBDO
	2002	Dr Ian Flitcroft MA, DPhil, FRCOphth
	2004	Professor Robin Ali PhD

THE MASTER'S PRIZE The RUSKELL (Bronze) Medal
In 2001, the Company introduced THE MASTERS PRIZE (Bronze Medal) to encourage recently qualified graduates to make their first published contribution to the advancement of basic, clinical or technical ophthalmic science. The first such medal was awarded in 2002.
	2002	Edward Mallon BSc, MCOptom (Aston)
	2003	Vijay Anand BSc, MCOptom (Bradford)
	2004	Rachael Peterson BSc (Aston)
In 2005 the Medal was redesignated the Ruskell (Bronze) Medal in memory of the late Professor Gordon Ruskell.
	2005	Miss Marta Vianya-Estopà, MSc (Bradford)
	2006	Dr Charikleia Vakrou, MSc, PhD (Bradford)

AWARD FOR OUTSTANDING SERVICE
In 2005 the Company commissioned a special set of badges, designed to recognize oustanding service to the Livery Company by a member who has never sat on the Court of Assistants.
	2005	Liveryman Tony Jarratt FBDO