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Tercentenary Lectures

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The Tercentenary Lectures were a series of lectures held upon the 300th anniversary year of the Royal Society of London in 1960.

List of lecturers

Name Lecture Notes
Cyril Dean 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 Mary Crowfoot Hodgkin Molecules in crystals.
Alfred Charles Bernard Lovell The investigation of the Universe by radio astronomy.
Peter Brian Medawar The problems of transplantation.
Cecil Frank Powell The study of nuclear interactions at very great energies.
Alexander Robertus Todd New horizons in organic chemistry.
Vincent Brian Wigglesworth The metamorphosis of insects.

References

  • "The Tercentenary Lectures (1960)". Retrieved 2009-03-20.