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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

Year Name Country Lecture Notes
1952 John Cockcroft New Zealand [2]
1953 James Chadwick Canada [3]
1954 Ernest Marsden South Africa Rutherford, his Life and Work 1871-1937 [4]
1955 Marcus Laurence Elwin Oliphant India and Pakistan Science and mankind -
1956 Charles Galton Darwin New Zealand The Discovery of atomic number [5]
1957 Edward Neville da Costa Andrade Australia The Birth of the nuclear atom [6]
1958 Patrick Maynard Stuart Blackett Canada [7]
1960 William Lawrence Bragg New Zealand The Development of X-ray analysis [8]
1962 Nevill Francis Mott Nigeria, Rhodesia and Nyasaland, Uganda Atomic physics and the strength of metals [9]
1963 Thomas Edward Allibone India and Pakistan -
1964 George Paget Thomson New Zealand Rutherford in nineteenth-century Cambridge [10]
1965 Philip Ivor Dee Canada [11]
1966 John Ashworth Ratcliffe Australia Radio and the Cavendish Laboratory [12]
1967 Harrie Stewart Massey New Zealand -
1968 John Michael Ziman India and Pakistan Some 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 Zealand Evolution of the elements [14]
1975 Philip Burton Moon Australia Yarns and Spinners:Recollections of Rutherford and Applications of Swift Rotation [15]
1977 Norman Feather Canada Some episodes of the α-particle story [16]
1979 Eric Henry Stoneley Burhop New Zealand The New Physics [17]
1980 David Shoenberg India and Sri Lanka Magnetic Oscillations in metals [18]
1981 Stephen Erwin Moorbath Zimbabwe -
1982 James Dwyer McGee New Zealand Rutherford, Radio and Opto-Electronics [19]
1983 William Ernest Burcham Canada Rutherford 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 Zealand Maths, maps and the human heart [1]
2013 Sir John Sulston New Zealand People and the planet – how can we all live and flourish on a finite Earth? [1][21]
2017 Georgina Mace New Zealand How should we value nature in a human-dominated world? -
2018 Eric Wolff Canada Polar change – a perspective from the ice core palaeoclimate record’ -
2019 Ottoline Leyser New Zealand Thinking like a vegetable: how plants decide what to do -

References

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  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.
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  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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