Robert Boyle Lecture

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Not to be confused with Boyle Lectures.

The Robert Boyle Lecture is a lecture series delivered to the Oxford University Scientific Club (formerly the Oxford University Junior Scientific Club). The first lecture was delivered in 1892.

[edit] The Lectures

  • 1 - The place in science and the character of Robert Boyle
  • 2 - Molecular Tactics of a Crystal
  • 5 - Argon and Helium, the Two Recently Discovered Gases
  • 8 - Magnetism in Growth
  • 9 - The rise of the experimental method in Oxford
  • 14 - The Scope and Importance to the State of the Science of National Eugenics
  • 21 - Nationality and Race
  • 22 - Anthropology and history
  • 23 - Electrons and Ether Waves
  • 27 - The Geological Age of the Earth
  • 28 - Recent Developments in Atomic Theory
  • 33 - The Problems of Specificity in Biochemical Catalysis
  • 39 - The structure of alloys
  • 49 - Anatomical pattern as the essential basis of sensory discrimination
  • 50 - Science and International Relations
  • 53 - A Hundred Years of Spectroscopy

[edit] Lecturers

In 1998 the lecture was presented by Kevin Warwick.