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
1948John David Griffith DaviesJohn Wilkins and the Royal Society.
1949Edward Neville da Costa AndradeRobert Hooke.
1950Francis Joseph ColeThe history of micro-dissection.
1952Harold Brewer HartleySir Humphry Davy, Bt, P.R.S.
1955Basil SchonlandBenjamin Franklin, natural philosopher.
1958Joseph NeedhamThe missing link in horological history: a Chinese contribution.
1961Gavin Rylands de BeerThe origins of Darwins ideas on evolution and natural selection.
1964Giorgio de SantillanaGalileo today.
1967Geoffrey Langdon KeynesBacon, Harvey, and the originators of the Royal Society.
1970Reginald Victor JonesThe plain story of James Watt.
1973Alfred Rupert HallNewton and his editors.
1976Margaret GowingScience, technology and education: England in 1870.
1979Gweneth WhitteridgeOn the local movement of animals.
1982Sydney SmithOne hundred years after Charles Darwin.
1985William Thomas StearnJohn Wilkins, John Ray and Carl Linnaeus.
1988David S. LandesBrain and hand in the development of technology of time-measurement.
1991Stephen Finney MasonBishop John Wilkins FRS.
1994Allan ChapmanEdmond Halley as a historian of science.
1997Desmond George King-HeleErasmus Darwin, the Lunatiks and evolution.
2000Roy PorterReflections on scientific and medical futurology since the time of John Wilkins.
2003Lisa JardineDr Wilkins's boy wonders.

References

  1. "The 2010 Wilkins-Bernal-Medawar Lecture". The Royal Society. Retrieved 14 August 2010.


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