Medawar Lecture

The Medawar Lecture was an annual lecture on the philosophy of science organised by the Royal Society of London in memory of Sir Peter Medawar. It was last delivered in 2004 after which it was merged with the Wilkins Lecture and the Bernal Lecture to form the Wilkins-Bernal-Medawar Lecture.[1]

List of lecturers

Year Name Lecture Notes
1986Karl Raimund PopperA new interpretation of Darwinism.[2]
1990Lewis ThomasThe new transitional structure of basic science: prospects and apprehensions.
1992Max Ferdinand PerutzSpecies adaptation in a protein molecule.
1995John Michael ZimanPost-academic science.
1998Lewis WolpertIs science dangerous?
2001Richard Langton GregoryKnowledge for vision: vision for knowledge.
2004Peter LiptonThe truth about science

References

  1. "The 2010 Wilkins-Bernal-Medawar Lecture". The Royal Society. Retrieved 14 August 2010.
  2. Niemann, Hans-Joachim: Karl Popper and the Two New Secrets of Life: Including Karl Popper's Medawar Lecture 1986 and Three Related Texts Tubingen: Mohr Siebeck, 2014. ISBN 978-3161532078.


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