The William Bate Hardy Prize is awarded by the Cambridge Philosophical Society. It is awarded once in three years “for the best original memoir, investigation or discovery by a member of the University of Cambridge in connection with Biological Science that may have been published during the three years immediately preceding”.^[1]

(incomplete list-prize awarded at least 22 times by 2014)

• 1966 Hugh Huxley (inaugural winner)^[2]
• 1969 Sydney Brenner^[3] and Ralph Riley^[4]
• 1976 Frederick Sanger^[5]
• 1978 Richard Henderson^[6]
• 1981 César Milstein^[7]
• 1984 John Gurdon^[8]
• 1987 Michael Berridge^[9]
• 1991 Azim Surani^[10]
• 1993 Martin Evans^[11]
• 1995 Nicholas Barry Davies^[12]
• 1998 Tim Clutton-Brock and Andrew Wyllie^[13] (shared)
• 2001 Michael Neuberger^[14] and James Cuthbert Smith^[15] (shared)
• 2004 Andrea Brand and Robin Irvine (shared)^[16]
• 2010 Beverley Glover,^[1] Dr Peter Forster^[17] and Simon Conway Morris [1] (shared)
• 2014 Serena Nik-Zainal^[18]

• List of biology awards

• Charter, Abstracts of Laws Prescribed by Charter, Bye Laws, Regulations from the William Hopkins Prize and the William Bate Hardy Prize