The Raymond Pearl Memorial Lecture was established in 1983 by the Human Biology Association to honor one of the great human biologists of the 20th century.  The Lecture is delivered at the annual meeting by an invited scholar who has made outstanding contributions to science, followed by the presentation of a plaque commemoriating the award.

1983 Sharon Kingsland, Johns Hopkins University
1984 David Kritchevsky, University of Pennsylvania
1985 Stanley M. Garn, University of Michigan
1986 Alex F. Roche, Wright State University School of Medicine
1987 Derek F. Roberts, University of Newcastle-Upon-Tyne
1988 James N. Spuhler, University of New Mexico
1989 D. Carleton Gajdusek, National Institutes of Health*
1990 George H. Beaton, University of Toronto
1991 Henry J. Montoye, University of Wisconsin
1992 William J. Schull, University of Texas Health Sciences Center*
1993 Arno G. Motulsky, University of Washington*
1994 G. Ainsworth Harrison, University of Oxford*
1995 Robert N. Butler, Mount Sinai Medical Center*
1996 Paul T. Baker, Pennsylvania State University*
1997 George C. Williams, State University of New York, Stony Brook*
1998 Jean W. MacCluer, Southwest Foundation for Biomedical Research*
1999 Margaret Lock, McGill University*†
2000 R.M. Neill Alexander, University of Leeds
2001 Henry C. Harpending, University of Utah
2002 Jeanne Altmann, Princeton University
2003 Robert R. Sokal, Stony Brook University‡
2004 Stephen C. Stearns, Yale University‡
2005 Darna L. DuFour, University of Colorado‡
2006 A.T. Steegmann, Jr., University at Buffalo, SUNY‡
2007 Claude Bouchard, Pennington Biomedical Resource Center‡
2008 Donna Day Baird, National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences‡
2009 Alan H. Bittles, Murdoch University, Edith Cowan University‡
2010 John Allman, California Institute of Technology

Sponsors
Human Biology Association
†North American Menopause Society
*Wenner-Gren Foundation for Anthropological Research
‡Wiley-Liss, Inc.