Rutherford Memorial Lecture (Royal Society)

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The Rutherford Memorial Lecture is an international lecture of the Royal Society created under the Rutherford Memorial Scheme in 1952. It is held at universities in various countries in the Commonwealth, with a stipulation that at least one of every three lectures must be held in New Zealand. [1]

List of lecturers

YearNameCountryLectureNotes
1952 John Cockcroft New Zealand [2]
1953 James Chadwick Canada [3]
1954 Ernest Marsden South AfricaRutherford, his Life and Work 1871-1937 [4]
1955 Marcus Laurence Elwin Oliphant India and PakistanScience and mankind-
1956 Charles Galton Darwin New ZealandThe Discovery of atomic number [5]
1957 Edward Neville da Costa Andrade AustraliaThe Birth of the nuclear atom [6]
1958 Patrick Maynard Stuart Blackett Canada [7]
1960 William Lawrence Bragg New ZealandThe Development of X-ray analysis [8]
1962 Nevill Francis Mott Nigeria, Rhodesia and Nyasaland, UgandaAtomic physics and the strength of metals [9]
1963 Thomas Edward Allibone India and Pakistan-
1964 George Paget Thomson New ZealandRutherford in nineteenth-century Cambridge [10]
1965 Philip Ivor Dee Canada [11]
1966 John Ashworth Ratcliffe AustraliaRadio and the Cavendish Laboratory [12]
1967 Harrie Stewart Massey New Zealand-
1968 John Michael Ziman India and PakistanSome problems of the growth and spread of science in developing countries. [13]
1969 Piotr Leonidovich Kapitza Canada-
1970 Stanley Keith Runcorn Kenya, Tanzania and Uganda-
1971 Peter Howard Fowler New ZealandEvolution of the elements [14]
1975 Philip Burton Moon AustraliaYarns and Spinners:Recollections of Rutherford and Applications of Swift Rotation [15]
1977 Norman Feather CanadaSome episodes of the α-particle story [16]
1979 Eric Henry Stoneley Burhop New ZealandThe New Physics [17]
1980 David Shoenberg India and Sri LankaMagnetic Oscillations in metals [18]
1981 Stephen Erwin Moorbath Zimbabwe-
1982 James Dwyer McGee New ZealandRutherford, Radio and Opto-Electronics [19]
1983 William Ernest Burcham CanadaRutherford and beta decay [20]
1984 Alfred Charles Bernard Lovell Australia-
1985 Roger Elliott New Zealand-
1986 Rudolf Ernst Peierls India-
1987 Maurice Goldhaber Canada-
1988 Dan Peter McKenzie New Zealand-
1989 Samuel Devons Australia-
1990 Basil John Mason Canada-
1991 Denys Haigh Wilkinson New Zealand-
1992 Lewis Edward John Roberts India-
1993 David John Weatherall South-east Asia-
1995 William Hamilton New Zealand-
1996 John Bertrand Gurdon Australia-
1997 John Meurig Thomas New Zealand-
1999 Robert Brian Heap South Africa-
2000 Michael Joseph Kelly New Zealand-
2003 Timothy J. Pedley New Zealand-
2005 Alec Jeffreys Singapore-
2006 Paul Nurse New Zealand-
2007 Patrick Bateson Australia-
2008 Lorna Casselton South Africa-
2010 Lord Rees of Ludlow New ZealandMaths, maps and the human heart [1]
2013 Sir John Sulston New ZealandPeople and the planet – how can we all live and flourish on a finite Earth? [1] [21]
2017 Georgina Mace New ZealandHow should we value nature in a human-dominated world?-
2018 Eric Wolff CanadaPolar change – a perspective from the ice core palaeoclimate record’-
2019 Ottoline Leyser New ZealandThinking like a vegetable: how plants decide what to do-

References

  1. 1 2 3 "Rutherford Memorial Lecture". Royal Society. Retrieved 2 March 2019.
  2. ↑ Cockcroft, John (1953). "The Rutherford Memorial lecture". Proceedings of the Royal Society of London. Series A, Mathematical and Physical Sciences. 217 (1128): 1–8. Bibcode:1953RSPSA.217....1C. doi:10.1098/rspa.1953.0042. JSTOR   99142. S2CID   178338683.
  3. ↑ Chadwick, James (1954). "The Rutherford Memorial lecture". Proceedings of the Royal Society of London. Series A, Mathematical and Physical Sciences. 224 (1159): 435–447. doi:10.1098/rspa.1954.0171. JSTOR   99545. S2CID   97490251.
  4. ↑ Marsden, E. (1954). "The Rutherford Memorial lecture". Proceedings of the Royal Society of London. Series A, Mathematical and Physical Sciences. 226 (1166): 283–305. JSTOR   99567.
  5. ↑ Darwin, Charles (1956). "The Rutherford Memorial lecture". Proceedings of the Royal Society of London. Series A, Mathematical and Physical Sciences. 236 (1206): 285–296. JSTOR   99959.
  6. ↑ Andrade, E. N. da C. (1958). "The Rutherford Memorial lecture". Proceedings of the Royal Society of London. Series A, Mathematical and Physical Sciences. 244 (1239): 437–455. doi:10.1098/rspa.1958.0053. JSTOR   100261. S2CID   19795596.
  7. ↑ Blackett, P. M. S. (1959). "The Rutherford Memorial lecture". Proceedings of the Royal Society of London. Series A, Mathematical and Physical Sciences. 251 (1266): 293–305. doi:10.1098/rspa.1959.0110. JSTOR   100874. S2CID   191561634.
  8. ↑ Bragg, Lawrence (1961). "The Rutherford Memorial lecture". Proceedings of the Royal Society of London. Series A, Mathematical and Physical Sciences. 262 (1309): 145–158. JSTOR   2414072.
  9. ↑ Mott, Nevill (1963). "The Rutherford Memorial lecture". Proceedings of the Royal Society of London. Series A, Mathematical and Physical Sciences. 275 (1361): 149–160. JSTOR   2414622.
  10. ↑ Thomson, George (1965). "The Rutherford Memorial lecture". Proceedings of the Royal Society of London. Series A, Mathematical and Physical Sciences. 283 (1395): 481–490. JSTOR   2415227.
  11. ↑ Dee, P. I. (1967). "The Rutherford Memorial lecture". Proceedings of the Royal Society of London. Series A, Mathematical and Physical Sciences. 298 (1453): 103–122. doi:10.1098/rspa.1967.0094. JSTOR   2415973. S2CID   162557060.
  12. ↑ "The Papers of Jack Radtcliffe". Janus. Retrieved 7 January 2012.
  13. ↑ Ziman, J. M. (1969). "The Rutherford Memorial lecture". Proceedings of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological Sciences. 174 (1034): 69–89. JSTOR   75752.
  14. ↑ Fowler, P. H. (1972). "The Rutherford Memorial lecture". Proceedings of the Royal Society of London. Series A, Mathematical and Physical Sciences. 329 (1576): 1–16. doi:10.1098/rspa.1972.0098. JSTOR   78154. S2CID   122694392.
  15. ↑ "Rutherford Memorial Lecture 1975" (PDF). Proceedings of the Royal Society. 4 April 1978. doi:10.1098/rspa.1978.0070. S2CID   109274378 . Retrieved 11 November 2010.
  16. ↑ Feather, N. (1977). "The Rutherford Memorial lecture". Proceedings of the Royal Society of London. Series A, Mathematical and Physical Sciences. 357 (1689): 117–129. doi:10.1098/rspa.1977.0158. JSTOR   79439. S2CID   162621174.
  17. ↑ Burhop, E. H. S. (1982). "The Rutherford Memorial lecture". Proceedings of the Royal Society of London. Series A, Mathematical and Physical Sciences. 380 (1778): 1–28. doi:10.1098/rspa.1982.0027. JSTOR   2397068. S2CID   123023042.
  18. ↑ "The Rutherford memorial lecture 1980" (PDF). Proceedings of the Royal Society. Archived from the original (PDF) on 26 July 2011. Retrieved 11 November 2010.
  19. ↑ McGee, James Dwyer (8 June 1984). "The Rutherford Memorial Lecture" . Proceedings of the Royal Society. 393 (1805): 193–214. doi:10.1098/rspa.1984.0054. S2CID   110447573 . Retrieved 11 November 2010.
  20. ↑ Burcham, W. E. (1983). "The Rutherford Memorial lecture". Proceedings of the Royal Society of London. Series A, Mathematical and Physical Sciences. 389 (1797): 215–239. doi:10.1098/rspa.1983.0106. JSTOR   2397712. S2CID   122387281.
  21. ↑ "What's on - People and the planet - how can we all live and flourish on a finite Earth". Auckland War Memorial Museum. 8 October 2013. Retrieved 2 March 2019.


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