Tercentenary Lectures
The Tercentenary Lectures were a series of lectures held during the 300th anniversary year of the Royal Society, London in 1960.
List of lecturers
Name | Lecture | Notes |
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C. D. Darlington | The chromosomes and the theory of heredity. | — |
Arnold Alexander Hall | Trends in aeronautical science and engineering. | — |
Christopher Hinton | The evolution of nuclear power plant design. | — |
Alan Lloyd Hodgkin | The physics and chemistry of nervous conduction. | — |
Dorothy Hodgkin | Molecules in crystals. | — |
Bernard Lovell | The investigation of the Universe by radio astronomy. | — |
Peter Medawar | The problems of transplantation. | — |
C. F. Powell | The study of nuclear interactions at very great energies. | — |
Alexander R. Todd | New horizons in organic chemistry. | — |
Vincent Wigglesworth | The metamorphosis of insects. | — |
References
- "The Tercentenary Lectures (1960)". Retrieved 2009-03-20.
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