of the British Medical Association. He was Croonian lecturer at the Royal College of Physicians in 1915. He was awarded the Leeuwenhoek Medal in 1915, created a Companion of the Bath (CB) in the 1905 Birthday Honours, knighted in 1908 and upgraded to a Knight Commander of the Bath (KCB) in 1918. He was president of the British Science Association during 1924–1925. Bruce's name features on the frieze of the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine. Twenty-three names of public health and tropical medicine pioneers were chosen to feature on the School building in Keppel Street when it was constructed in 1926. Bruce was nominated 31 times for the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine between 1904 and 1932 for his discoveries in trypanosomiasis, but was never selected. References Bibliography External links London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine biographical article Scottish inventors Scottish microbiologists Scottish pathologists People educated at Stirling High School Alumni of the University of Edinburgh 1855 births 1931 deaths Royal Medal winners Fellows of the Royal College of Physicians Fellows of the Royal Society of Edinburgh Fellows of the Royal Society Knights Commander of the Order of the Bath Leeuwenhoek Medal winners Manson medal winners Royal Army Medical Corps officers British Army personnel of the Second Boer War British Army generals of World War I Presidents of the Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene