Bernal Lecture

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The Bernal Lecture

John Desmond Bernal. It was last delivered in 2004, after which it was merged with the Wilkins Lecture and Medawar Lecture to form the Wilkins-Bernal-Medawar Lecture.[2]

List of lecturers

Year Name Lecture Notes
1971
Eric Ashby
Science and Antiscience.
1974
Conrad Hal Waddington
The new Atlantis revisited.
1977
Piotr Leonidovich Kapitza
Scientific and social approaches for the solution of global problems.
1980 John Maynard Smith Science, ideology and myth.
1983 John Ziman The collectivization of science.
1986 Walter Bodmer The public understanding of science.
1989 Walter Perry Science and education.
1992 Alec Jeffreys Molecular sleuthing: the story of DNA fingerprinting. (Sci. publ. Affairs Autumn 1993, 24.) (Delivered in 1993 in London and Keele.)
1995
William Stewart
UK Science and Technology policy: a perspective from the past, a vision for the future. (Sci. publ. Affairs, Spring 1996.) (Delivered in London and Dundee.)
1998 Tom Blundell The networking of academic and industrial research: the UK phenomenon. (Delivered in London and York.)
2001 Alan Lindsay Mackay JD Bernal: his legacy to science and to society (Delivered in London.).
2004 Michael Joseph Crumpton Are low-frequency environmental fields a health hazard?

References

  1. ^ "The Bernal Lecture (1969)". Retrieved 9 August 2014.
  2. ^ "The 2010 Wilkins-Bernal-Medawar Lecture". The Royal Society. Retrieved 14 August 2010.