The Medawar Lecture was an annual lecture on the philosophy of science organised by the Royal Society of London in memory of Sir Peter Medawar. It was last delivered in 2004 after which it was merged with the Wilkins Lecture and the Bernal Lecture to form the Wilkins-Bernal-Medawar Lecture.[1]
List of lecturers
[edit]Year | Name | Lecture | Notes |
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1986 | Karl Raimund Popper | A new interpretation of Darwinism.[2] | — |
1990 | Lewis Thomas | The new transitional structure of basic science: prospects and apprehensions. | — |
1992 | Max Ferdinand Perutz | Species adaptation in a protein molecule. | — |
1995 | John Michael Ziman | Post-academic science. | — |
1998 | Lewis Wolpert | Is science dangerous? | — |
2001 | Richard Langton Gregory | Knowledge for vision: vision for knowledge. | — |
2004 | Peter Lipton | The truth about science | — |
References
[edit]- ^ "The 2010 Wilkins-Bernal-Medawar Lecture". The Royal Society. Retrieved 14 August 2010.
- ^ Niemann, Hans-Joachim: Karl Popper and the Two New Secrets of Life: Including Karl Popper's Medawar Lecture 1986 and Three Related Texts Tubingen: Mohr Siebeck, 2014. ISBN 978-3161532078.
- "The Florey Lecture (1981)". Retrieved 20 March 2009.
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