Sir John Edward Sulston, Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, 2002

Sir John Edward Sulston, CH FRS (27 March 1942 – 6 March 2018) was a British biologist and academic. For his work on the cell lineage and genome of the nematode Caenorhabditis elegans, he was jointly awarded the 2002 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine with Sydney Brenner and Robert Horvitz. He was Chair of the Institute for Science, Ethics and Innovation at the University of Manchester.

Awards and honours

• 1983 Gold Medal of the Society of Magnetic Resonance in Medicine
• 1984 Joint award of the Royal Society Welcome Foundation Gold Medal and Prize.
• 1986 Elected Fellow of Queen Mary College (now Queen Mary and Westfield College), London University
• 1987 Elected Fellow of the Royal Society (FRS)
• 1987 Elected President of the Society of Magnetic Resonance in Medicine
• 1988 Awarded Duddell Medal and Prize by the Institute of Physics
• 1988 Awarded Silvanus Thompson Medal by the British Institute of Radiology
• 1989 Antoine Béclère Medal from the International Society of Radiology and the Antoine Béclère Institute in Paris
• 1990 Royal Society Mullard Award (joint with John Mallard & Jim Hutchinson)
• 1992 International Society of Magnetic Resonance (ISMAR) prize (joint with P. Lauterbur)
• 1993 Knighted
• 1993 Silver Plaque of the European Society of Magnetic Resonance in Medicine and Biology
• 1993 Elected Honorary Fellow of the Royal College of Radiology and Honorary Member of the British Institute of Radiology
• 1994 Elected Honorary Member of the Society of Magnetic Resonance Imaging and Fellow of the Society of Magnetic Resonance
• 1995 Garmisch-Partenkirchen Prize for MRI
• 1995 Gold Medal of the European Congress of Radiology and the European Association of Radiology
• 1997 Honorary Fellow of the Institute of Physics
• 2003 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for Medicine with Paul Lauterbur
• 2009 Lifetime Achievement Award by Prime Minister Gordon Brown,