James Scott Prize Lectureship

The James Scott Prize Lectureship is given every four years by the Royal Society of Edinburgh for a lecture on the fundamental concepts of Natural Philosophy. The prize was established in 1918 as a memorial to James Scott by trustees of his estate.^[1]

Years: Recipient	Lecture Title
1918-1922: Alfred North Whitehead[2]	The Relatedness of Nature (delivered June 5, 1922)
1922-1927: Joseph Larmor[3]	The Grasp of Mind on Nature (delivered July 4, 1927)
1927-1930: Niels Bohr[4][5]	Philosophical Aspects of Atomic Theory (delivered May 26, 1930)
1930-1933: Arnold Sommerfeld[3]	Ways to the Knowledge of Nature (delivered May 1, 1933)
1933-1938: P. A. M. Dirac[3][4]	The Relation between Mathematics and Physics (delivered February 6, 1939)
1940-1943: Edward Arthur Milne[4]	Fundamental Concepts of Natural Philosophy
1945-1948: Herbert Dingle[6]	The Nature of Scientific Philosophy (delivered July 5, 1948)
1955-1958: C.D. Broad[7]	Some Remarks on Change, Continuity, and Discontinuity (delivered November 11, 1957)
1958-1961: Herbert Butterfield[8]	The Place of the Scientific Revolution in the History of Thought
1960-1963: Hermann Bondi[9]	?
1963-1966: William Lawrence Bragg[10]	The Spirit of Science [11] (delivered July 3, 1967)
1966-1970: Karl Popper[12]	Conjectural Knowledge: My Solution of the Problem of Induction (delivered June 7, 1971)
1970-1974: Nicholas Kurti[13]	Meditations on Heat and Cold (date delivered October 25, 1976)
1974-1979: D.W. Sciama[14]	The Beginning and End of the Universe (delivered June 7, 1982)
1984-1987: W. Cochran[15]	?
1993-1996: Peter Higgs[1]	?
1997-2000: Roger Penrose[1]	?
2001-2004: Michael Berry[1]	Making Light of Mathematics (delivered December 9, 2002)
2005-2008: Stephen M. Barnett[16]	Security, Insecurity, Paranoia and Quantum Mechanics (delivered February 4, 2008)

References

1. "Royal Society of Edinburgh Research Awards". Retrieved 2008-03-13.
2. The Principle of Relativity with Applications to Physical Science. Retrieved 2008-03-13.
3. Proceedings of the royal society of edinburgh, volume 60, 1939-1940, p.441
4. "Cosmology: Methodological Debates in the 1930s and 1940s". Retrieved 2008-03-13.
5. page 351 of Volume 6 of the Niels Bohr Collected Works (North-Holland Physics Publishing, 1985)
6. Title: Obituary - Dingle, Herbert, Authors: Whitrow, G. J., Journal: ROYAL ASTRON. SOC. QUARTERLY JOURNAL V. 21, P. 333, 1980
7. Nature - Page 511. Retrieved 2009-04-10.
8. p. 130 of the Royal Society of Edinburgh, 1783-1983, Neil Campbell, 1983
9. Year Book of the Royal Society of Edinburgh By Royal Society of Edinburgh Published by Royal Society of Edinburgh., 1983
10. "Former Fellows of the Royal Society of Edinburgh. 1783-2002" (PDF). Retrieved 2009-04-10.
11. Year Book of the Royal Society of Edinburgh - Page 53. 1990. Retrieved 2009-04-10.
12. "lecture based on version appearing in Paul Arthur Schilpp, ed., The Philosophy of Karl Popper; revised lecture version published in Objective Knowledge, 1972". Retrieved 2008-09-17.
13. Year Book of the Royal Society of Edinburgh. Retrieved 2009-04-06.
14. Year Book of the Royal Society of Edinburgh. Retrieved 2009-04-06.
15. Year Book of the Royal Society of Edinburgh 1991 - P.23. Retrieved 2009-04-11.
16. "Research newsletter of the Department of Physics University of Strathclyde November 2007". Retrieved 2009-04-06.