| Year | Lecturer | Subject |
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| 1825 | John Millington | Natural Philosophy |
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| 1826 | J. Wallis | Astronomy |
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| 1827 | Michael Faraday | Chemistry |
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| 1828 | J. Wood | Architecture |
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| 1829 | Michael Faraday | Electricity |
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| 1830 | Thomas Webster | Geology |
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| 1831 | James Rennie | Zoology |
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| 1832 | Michael Faraday | Chemistry |
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| 1833 | John Lindley | Botany |
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| 1834 | William Thomas Brande | Chemistry |
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| 1835 | Michael Faraday | Electricity |
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| 1836 | William Thomas Brande | Chemistry of the Gases |
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| 1837 | Michael Faraday | Chemistry |
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| 1838 | J. Wallis | Astronomy |
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| 1839 | William Thomas Brande | The Chemistry of the Atmosphere and the Ocean |
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| 1840 | John Frederic Daniell | The First Principles of Franklinic Electricity |
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| 1841 | Michael Faraday | The Rudiments of Chemistry |
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| 1842 | William Thomas Brande | The Chemistry of the Non-Metallic Elements |
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| 1843 | Michael Faraday | First Principles of Electricity |
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| 1844 | William Thomas Brande | The Chemistry of the Gases |
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| 1845 | Michael Faraday | The Rudiments of Chemistry |
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| 1846 | J. Wallis | The Rudiments of Astronomy |
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| 1847 | William Thomas Brande | The Elements of Organic Chemistry |
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| 1848 | Michael Faraday | The Chemical History of a Candle |
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| 1849 | Robert Walker | The Properties of Matter and the Laws of Motion |
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| 1850 | William Thomas Brande | The Chemistry of Coal |
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| 1851 | Michael Faraday | Attractive Forces |
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| 1852 | Michael Faraday | Chemistry |
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| 1853 | Michael Faraday | Voltaic Electricity |
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| 1854 | Michael Faraday | The Chemistry of Combustion |
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| 1855 | Michael Faraday | The Distinctive Properties of the Common Metals |
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| 1856 | Michael Faraday | Attractive Forces |
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| 1857 | Michael Faraday | Static Electricity |
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| 1858 | Michael Faraday | The Metallic Properties |
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| 1859 | Michael Faraday | The Various Forces of Matter and their Relations to Each Other |
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| 1860 | Michael Faraday | The Chemical History of a Candle |
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| 1861 | John Tyndall | Light |
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| 1862 | Edward Frankland | Air and Water |
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| 1863 | John Tyndall | Electricity at Rest and Electricity in Motion |
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| 1864 | Edward Frankland | The Chemistry of a Coal |
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| 1865 | John Tyndall | Sound |
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| 1866 | Edward Frankland | The Chemistry of Gases |
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| 1867 | John Tyndall | Heat and Cold |
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| 1868 | William Odling | The Chemical Changes of Carbon |
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| 1869 | John Tyndall | Light |
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| 1870 | William Odling | Burning and Unburning |
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| 1871 | John Tyndall | Ice, Water, Vapour and Air |
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| 1872 | William Odling | Air and Gas |
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| 1873 | John Tyndall | The Motion and Sensation of Sound |
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| 1874 | John Hall Gladstone | The Votaic Battery |
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| 1875 | John Tyndall | Experimental Electricity |
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| 1876 | John Hall Gladstone | The Chemistry of Fire |
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| 1877 | John Tyndall | Heat, Visible and Invisible |
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| 1878 | James Dewar | A Soap Bubble |
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| 1879 | John Tyndall | Water and Air |
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| 1880 | James Dewar | Atoms |
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| 1881 | Robert Stawell Ball | The Sun, the Moon and the Planets |
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| 1882 | John Tyndall | Light and the Eye |
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| 1883 | James Dewar | Alchemy in Relation to Modern Science |
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| 1884 | John Tyndall | The Sources of Electricity |
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| 1885 | James Dewar | The Story of a Meteorite |
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| 1886 | James Dewar | The Chemistry of Light and Photography |
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| 1887 | Robert Stawell Ball | Astronomy |
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| 1888 | James Dewar | Clouds and Cloudland |
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| 1889 | Arthur Rücker | Electricity |
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| 1890 | James Dewar | Frost and Fire |
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| 1891 | J.G. McKendrick | Life in Motion; or the Animal Machine |
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| 1892 | Robert Stawell Ball | Astronomy |
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| 1893 | James Dewar | Air: Gaseous and Liquid |
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| 1894 | John Ambrose Fleming | The Work of an Electric Current |
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| 1895 | J.G. McKendrick | Sound, Hearing and Speech |
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| 1896 | Sylvanus Phillips Thompson | Light, Visible and Invisible |
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| 1897 | Oliver Lodge | The Principles of the Electric Telegraph |
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| 1898 | Robert Stawell Ball | Astronomy |
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| 1899 | Charles Vernon Boys | Fluids in Motion and at Rest |
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| 1900 | Robert Stawell Ball | Great Chapters from the Book of Nature |
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| 1901 | John Ambrose Fleming | Waves and Ripples in Water, Air and Aether |
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| 1902 | H.S. Hele-Shaw | Locomotion - on the Earth, through the Water, in the Air |
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| 1903 | Edwin Ray Lankester | Extinct Animals |
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| 1904 | H.H. Cunynghame | Ancient and Modern Methods of Measuring Time |
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| 1905 | Herbert Hall Turner | Astronomy |
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| 1906 | William Duddell | Signalling to a Distance |
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| 1907 | David Gill | Astronomy, Old and New |
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| 1908 | W. Stirling | The Wheel of Life |
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| 1909 | William Duddell | Modern Electricity |
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| 1910 | Sylvanus Phillips Thompson | Sound: Musical and Non-Musical |
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| 1911 | Peter Chalmers Mitchell | The Childhood of Animals |
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| 1912 | James Dewar | Christmas Lecture Epilogues |
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| 1913 | Herbert Hall Turner | A Voyage in Space |
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| 1914 | Charles Vernon Boys | Science in the Home |
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| 1915 | Herbert Hall Turner | Wireless Messages from the Stars |
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| 1916 | A. Keith | The Human Machine Which All Must Work |
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| 1917 | John Ambrose Fleming | Our Useful Servants - Magnetism and Electricity |
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| 1918 | D'Arcy Wentworth Thompson | The Fish of the Sea |
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| 1919 | William Henry Bragg | The World of Sound |
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| 1920 | John Arthur Thomson | The Haunts of Life |
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| 1921 | John Ambrose Fleming | Electric Waves and Wireless Telephony |
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| 1922 | Herbert Hall Turner | Six Steps Up the Ladder to the Stars |
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| 1923 | William Henry Bragg | Concerning the Nature of Things |
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| 1924 | F. Balfour Browne | Concerning the Habits of Insects |
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| 1925 | William Henry Bragg | Old Trades and New Knowledge |
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| 1926 | A.V. Hill | Nerves and Muscles: How We Feel and Move |
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| 1927 | Edward Neville Da Costa Andrade | Engines |
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| 1928 | A. Wood | Sound Waves and their Uses |
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| 1929 | S.R.K. Glanville | How Things Were Done in Ancient Egypt |
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| 1930 | A.M. Tyndall | The Electric Spark |
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| 1931 | William Lawrence Bragg | The Universe of Light |
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| 1932 | Alexander Oliver Rankine | The Round of the Waters |
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| 1933 | James Hopwood Jeans | Through Space and Time |
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| 1934 | William Lawrence Bragg | Electricity |
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| 1935 | C.E.K. Mees | Photography |
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| 1936 | G.I. Taylor | Ships |
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| 1937 | Julian Huxley Rare | Animals and the Disappearance of Wild Life |
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| 1938 | James Kendall | Young Chemists and Great Discoveries |
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| 1939-1942 | No Lectures |
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| 1943 | Edward Neville Da Costa Andrade | Vibrations and Waves |
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| 1944 | Harold Spencer Jones | Astronomy in our Daily Life |
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| 1945 | Robert Watson-Watt | Wireless |
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| 1946 | H. Hartridge | Colours and How We See Them |
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| 1947 | Eric K. Rideal | Chemical Reactions: How They Work |
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| 1948 | F. Bartlett | The Mind at Work and Play |
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| 1949 | Percy Dunsheath | The Electric Current |
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| 1950 | Edward Neville Da Costa Andrade | Waves and Vibrations |
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| 1951 | James Gray | How Animals Move |
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| 1952 | F. Sherwood Taylor | How Science Has Grown |
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| 1953 | J.A. Ratcliffe | The Uses of Radio Waves |
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| 1954 | Frank Whittle | The Story of Petroleum |
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| 1955 | Harry W. Melville | Big Molecules |
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| 1956 | H. Baines | Photography |
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| 1957 | J. Huxley and J. Fisher | Birds |
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| 1958 | J.A. Ratcliffe, J.M. Stagg, | The International Geophysical Year |
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| R.L.F. Boyd, Graham Sutton , |
| G.E.R. Deacon & G. de Q. Robin |
| 1959 | T.S. Allibone | The Release and Use of Atomic Energy |
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| 1960 | V.E. Cosslett | Seeing the Very Small |
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| 1961 | William Lawrence Bragg | Electricity |
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| 1962 | R.E.D. Bishop | Vibration |
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| 1963 | Ronald King | Energy |
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| 1964 | Desmond Morris | Animal Behaviour |
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| 1965 | Bernard Lovell , | Exploration of the Universe |
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| Francis Graham Smith , |
| Martin Ryle & Anthony Hewish |
| 1966 | Eric R. Laithwaite | The Engineer in Wonderland |
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| 1967 | Richard L. Gregory | The Intelligent Eye |
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| 1968 | P. Morrison | Gulliver’s Laws: the Physics of Large and Small |
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| 1969 | George Porter | Time Machines |
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| 1970 | J. Napier | Monkeys Without Tails: A Giraffe’s Eye-view of Man |
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| 1971 | Charles A. Taylor | Sounds of Music: the Science of Tones and Tune |
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| 1972 | G.G. Gouriet | Ripples in the Ether: the Science of Radio Communication |
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| 1973 | David Attenborough | The Language of Animals |
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| 1974 | Eric R. Laithwaite | The Engineer Through the Looking Glass |
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| 1975 | Heinz Wolff | Signals from the Interior |
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| 1976 | George Porter | The Natural History of a Sunbeam |
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| 1977 | Carl Sagan | The Planets |
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| 1978 | E. Christopher Zeeman | Mathematics into Pictures |
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| 1979 | E.M. Rogers | Atoms for Engineering Minds: a Circus of Experiments |
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| 1980 | David Phillips | The Chicken, the Egg and the Molecules |
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| with Max Perutz (lecture 5) |
| 1981 | R.V. Jones | From Magna Carta to Microchip |
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| 1982 | Colin Blakemore | Common Sense |
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| 1983 | Leonard Maunder | Machines in Motion |
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| 1984 | Walter Bodmer | The Message of the Genes |
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| 1985 | David Pye | Communicating |
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| 1986 | Lewis Wolpert | Frankenstein’s Quest: Development of Life |
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| 1987 | John Meurig Thomas | Crystals and Lasers |
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| and David Phillips |
| 1988 | Gareth Roberts | The Home of the Future |
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| 1989 | Charles A. Taylor | Exploring Music |
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| 1990 | Malcolm S Longair | Origins |
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| 1991 | Richard Dawkins | Growing Up in the Universe |
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| 1992 | Charles J.M. Stirling | Our World Through the Looking Glass |
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| 1993 | Frank Close | The Cosmic Onion |
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| 1994 | Susan Greenfield | Journey to the Centre of the Brain |
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| 1995 | James Jackson | Planet Earth, An Explorer’s guide |
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| 1996 | Simon Conway Morris | The History in our Bones |
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| 1997 | Ian Stewart | The Magical Maze |
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| 1998 | Nancy Rothwell | Staying Alive |
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| 1999 | Neil Johnson | Arrow of Time |
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| 2000 | Kevin Warwick | Rise of the Robots |
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| 2001 | John Sulston | The Secrets of Life |
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| 2002 | Tony Ryan | Smart Stuff |
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| 2003 | Monica Grady | Voyage in Space and Time |
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| 2004 | Lloyd Peck | To the End of the Earth: surviving Antarctic extremes |
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| 2005 | Sir John Krebs | The Truth About Food |
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