Bernal Lecture
The Bernal Lecture[1] was an annual lecture on the social function of science organised by the Royal Society of London and endowed by Professor 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 | Ashby, EricEric Ashby | Science and Antiscience. | — |
| 1974 | Waddington, Conrad HalConrad Hal Waddington | The new Atlantis revisited. | — |
| 1977 | Kapitza, Piotr LeonidovichPiotr Leonidovich Kapitza | Scientific and social approaches for the solution of global problems. | — |
| 1980 | Smith, John MaynardJohn Maynard Smith | Science, ideology and myth. | — |
| 1983 | Ziman, JohnJohn Ziman | The collectivization of science. | — |
| 1986 | Bodmer, WalterWalter Bodmer | The public understanding of science. | — |
| 1989 | Perry, WalterWalter Perry | Science and education. | — |
| 1992 | Jeffreys, AlecAlec Jeffreys | Molecular sleuthing: the story of DNA fingerprinting. (Sci. publ. Affairs Autumn 1993, 24.) (Delivered in 1993 in London and Keele.) | — |
| 1995 | Stewart, WilliamWilliam 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 | Blundell, TomTom Blundell | The networking of academic and industrial research: the UK phenomenon. (Delivered in London and York.) | — |
| 2001 | Mackay, Alan LindsayAlan Lindsay Mackay | JD Bernal: his legacy to science and to society (Delivered in London.). | — |
| 2004 | Crumpton, Michael JosephMichael Joseph Crumpton | Are low-frequency environmental fields a health hazard? | — |
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