Wilkins Lecture
The Wilkins Lecture was a lecture organised by the Royal Society of London on the subject of the history of science and named after John Wilkins, the first Secretary of the Society. The last Wilkins lecture was delivered in 2003, after which it was merged with the Bernal Lecture and the Medawar Lecture to form the Wilkins-Bernal-Medawar Lecture.[1]
List of recipients
| Year | Name | Lecture | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1948 | Davies, John David GriffithJohn David Griffith Davies | John Wilkins and the Royal Society. | — |
| 1949 | Andrade, Edward Neville da CostaEdward Neville da Costa Andrade | Robert Hoke. | — |
| 1950 | Cole, Francis JosephFrancis Joseph Cole | The history of micro-dissection. | — |
| 1952 | Hartley, Harold BrewerHarold Brewer Hartley | Sir Humphry Davy, Bt, P.R.S. | — |
| 1955 | Schonland, BasilBasil Schonland | Benjamin Franklin, natural philosopher. | — |
| 1958 | Needham, JosephJoseph Needham | The missing link in horological history: a Chinese contribution. | — |
| 1961 | Beer, Gavin Rylands deGavin Rylands de Beer | The origins of Darwins ideas on evolution and natural selection. | — |
| 1964 | Santillana, Giorgio deGiorgio de Santillana | Galileo today. | — |
| 1967 | Keynes, Geoffrey LangdonGeoffrey Langdon Keynes | Bacon, Harvey, and the originators of the Royal Society. | — |
| 1970 | Jones, Reginald VictorReginald Victor Jones | The plain story of James Watt. | — |
| 1973 | Hall, Alfred RupertAlfred Rupert Hall | Newton and his editors. | — |
| 1976 | Gowing, MargaretMargaret Gowing | Science, technology and education: England in 1870. | — |
| 1979 | Whitteridge, GwenethGweneth Whitteridge | On the local movement of animals. | — |
| 1982 | Smith, SydneySydney Smith | One hundred years after Charles Darwin. | — |
| 1985 | Stearn, William ThomasWilliam Thomas Stearn | John Wilkins, John Ray and Carl Linnaeus. | — |
| 1988 | Landes, David S.David S. Landes | Brain and hand in the development of technology of time-measurement. | — |
| 1991 | Mason, Stephen FinneyStephen Finney Mason | Bishop John Wilkins FRS. | — |
| 1994 | Chapman, AllanAllan Chapman | Edmond Halley as a historian of science. | — |
| 1997 | King-Hele, Desmond GeorgeDesmond George King-Hele | Erasmus Darwin, the Lunatiks and evolution. | — |
| 2000 | Porter, RoyRoy Porter | Reflections on scientific and medical futurology since the time of John Wilkins. | — |
| 2003 | Jardine, LisaLisa Jardine | Dr Wilkins's boy wonders. | — |
References
- ↑ "The 2010 Wilkins-Bernal-Medawar Lecture". The Royal Society. Retrieved 14 August 2010.
- "The Wilkins Lecture (1947)". Retrieved 2009-03-20.
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