Rutherford Memorial Lecture (Royal Society)

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The Rutherford Memorial Lecture is an international lecture of the Royal Society created under the Rutherford Memorial Scheme in 1952. It is held at universities in various countries in the Commonwealth, with a stipulation that at least one of every three lectures must be held in New Zealand.[1]

List of lecturers

Year Name Country Lecture Notes
1952 John Cockcroft New Zealand [2]
1953 James Chadwick Canada [3]
1954 Ernest Marsden South Africa Rutherford, his Life and Work 1871-1937 [4]
1955
Marcus Laurence Elwin Oliphant
 India and Pakistan Science and mankind -
1956 Charles Galton Darwin New Zealand The Discovery of atomic number [5]
1957
Edward Neville da Costa Andrade
 Australia The Birth of the nuclear atom [6]
1958
Patrick Maynard Stuart Blackett
 Canada [7]
1960
William Lawrence Bragg
 New Zealand The Development of X-ray analysis [8]
1962 Nevill Francis Mott Nigeria, Rhodesia and Nyasaland, Uganda Atomic physics and the strength of metals [9]
1963 Thomas Edward Allibone India and Pakistan -
1964 George Paget Thomson New Zealand Rutherford in nineteenth-century Cambridge [10]
1965
Philip Ivor Dee
 Canada [11]
1966
John Ashworth Ratcliffe
 Australia Radio and the Cavendish Laboratory [12]
1967 Harrie Stewart Massey New Zealand -
1968 John Michael Ziman India and Pakistan Some problems of the growth and spread of science in developing countries. [13]
1969
Piotr Leonidovich Kapitza
 Canada -
1970
Stanley Keith Runcorn
 Kenya, Tanzania and Uganda -
1971 Peter Howard Fowler New Zealand Evolution of the elements [14]
1975 Philip Burton Moon Australia Yarns and Spinners:Recollections of Rutherford and Applications of Swift Rotation [15]
1977 Norman Feather Canada Some episodes of the α-particle story [16]
1979 Eric Henry Stoneley Burhop New Zealand The New Physics [17]
1980 David Shoenberg India and Sri Lanka Magnetic Oscillations in metals [18]
1981
Stephen Erwin Moorbath
 Zimbabwe -
1982 James Dwyer McGee New Zealand Rutherford, Radio and Opto-Electronics [19]
1983 William Ernest Burcham Canada Rutherford and beta decay [20]
1984
Alfred Charles Bernard Lovell
 Australia -
1985 Roger Elliott New Zealand -
1986
Rudolf Ernst Peierls
 India -
1987 Maurice Goldhaber Canada -
1988 Dan Peter McKenzie New Zealand -
1989 Samuel Devons Australia -
1990
Basil John Mason
 Canada -
1991
Denys Haigh Wilkinson
 New Zealand -
1992 Lewis Edward John Roberts India -
1993
David John Weatherall
 South-east Asia -
1995
William Hamilton
 New Zealand -
1996
John Bertrand Gurdon
 Australia -
1997 John Meurig Thomas New Zealand -
1999
Robert Brian Heap
 South Africa -
2000 Michael Joseph Kelly New Zealand -
2003
Timothy J. Pedley
 New Zealand -
2005 Alec Jeffreys Singapore -
2006 Paul Nurse New Zealand -
2007 Patrick Bateson Australia -
2008 Lorna Casselton South Africa -
2010
Lord Rees of Ludlow
 New Zealand Maths, maps and the human heart [1]
2013 Sir John Sulston New Zealand People and the planet – how can we all live and flourish on a finite Earth? [1][21]
2017 Georgina Mace New Zealand How should we value nature in a human-dominated world? -
2018 Eric Wolff Canada Polar change – a perspective from the ice core palaeoclimate record’ -
2019 Ottoline Leyser New Zealand Thinking like a vegetable: how plants decide what to do -

References

  1. ^ a b c "Rutherford Memorial Lecture". Royal Society. Retrieved 2 March 2019.
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  3. S2CID 97490251
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  4. JSTOR 99567
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  5. JSTOR 99959
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  6. S2CID 19795596
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  7. S2CID 191561634
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  8. JSTOR 2414072
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  9. JSTOR 2414622
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  10. JSTOR 2415227
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  11. S2CID 162557060
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  12. ^ "The Papers of Jack Radtcliffe". Janus. Retrieved 7 January 2012.
  13. JSTOR 75752
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  14. S2CID 122694392
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  15. S2CID 109274378
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  16. S2CID 162621174
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  17. S2CID 123023042
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  18. ^ "The Rutherford memorial lecture 1980" (PDF). Proceedings of the Royal Society. Archived from the original (PDF) on 26 July 2011. Retrieved 11 November 2010.
  19. S2CID 110447573
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  20. S2CID 122387281
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  21. ^ "What's on - People and the planet - how can we all live and flourish on a finite Earth". Auckland War Memorial Museum. 8 October 2013. Retrieved 2 March 2019.


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