Bakerian Lecture

The Bakerian Lecture is a prize and an associated lecture to the Royal Society in physics, chemistry, astronomy, earth sciences or mathematics (Physical Sciences). It is endowed with 1,000 pounds and connected to a coin.

The lecture and the price was donated in 1775 by Henry Baker. He donated 100 pounds for a lecture one of its members on a proposed by the Royal Society range of natural history or experimental science.

Today the winners of the Council of the Royal Society is chosen. He has to come from the Commonwealth or Ireland or have worked there for at least three years. The winners may be nominated again after five years.

The lecture will be published in the Proceedings of the Royal Society (or its Philosophical Transactions ).

Award winners

In each case, with the title of the lecture

21st Century

  • 2014 Lynn Gladden (lecture not held )
  • 2013 David A. Leigh, Making the tiniest machines
  • 2012 Peter Edwards, Metals and the Conducting and superconducting states of matter
  • 2011 Herbert E. Huppert, Carbon storage: caught in between a rock and climate change
  • 2010 Donal Bradley, Plastic electronics: their science and applications
  • 2009 James Murray, Mathematics in the real world: From brain Tumours to saving marriages.
  • 2008 Robin Clark, Raman microscopy, pigments and the arts / science interface
  • 2007 Joseph Silk, The dark side of the Universe
  • 2006 Athene Donald, The mesoscopic world - from plastic bags to brain disease - structural similarities in physics
  • 2005 John Pendry, Negative refraction, the perfect lens and metamaterials
  • 2004 Michael Pepper, Semiconductor nanostructures and new quantum effects
  • 2003 Christopher Dobson, Protein folding and misfolding: from theory to therapy
  • 2002 Arnold Wolfendale, Cosmic rays: what are they and where do they come from?
  • 2001 David Sherrington, Magnets, microchips, memories and markets: statistical physics of complex systems.

20th century

  • 2000 Steve Sparks, how volcanoes work.
  • 1999 Peter Day, The molecular chemistry of magnets and superconductors.
  • 1998 Richard Ellis, The morphological evolution of the galaxy.
  • 1997 Steven Ley, Sweet dreams: new strategies for oligosaccharide assembly.
  • 1996 A. Ian Scott, Genetically engineered synthesis of natural products.
  • 1995 Anthony Kelly, composites, towards intelligent materials design.
  • 1994 John Polanyi, Photochemistry in the adsorbed state, using light as a scalpel and a crystal as on operating table.
  • 1993 Hans Bethe, Mechanism of supernovae.
  • 1992 Brooke Benjamin, The mystery of vortex breakdown.
  • 1991 John T. Houghton, The predictability of weather and climate.
  • 1990 John Meurig Thomas, New microcrystalline catalysts.
  • 1989 Jack Lewis, cluster compounds, a new aspect of inorganic chemistry.
  • 1988 Walter Eric Spear, Amorphous semiconductors, a new generation of electronic materials.
  • 1987 Michael Victor Berry, The semiclassical chaology of quantum eigenvalues ​​.
  • 1986 Walter Munk, Acoustic monitoring of ocean gyres.
  • 1985 Carlo Rubbia, unification of the electromagnetic and weak forces.
  • 1984 Alan R. Battersby, Biosynthesis of the pigments of life.
  • 1983 Alfred Edward Ringwood, The Earths core: its composition, formation and bearing upon the origin of the earth.
  • 1982 Martin Rees, Galaxies and Their nuclei.
  • 1981 Robert Joseph Paton Williams, Natural selection of the chemical elements.
  • 1980 Abdus Salam, Gauge unification of fundamental forces.
  • 1979 Michael E. Fisher, multi Critical points in magnets and fluids: a review of some novel states of matter.
  • 1978 Robert Lewis Fullarton Boyd, Cosmic exploration by X- rays.
  • 1977 George Porter, In vitro models for photosynthesis.
  • 1976 George Wallace Kenner, Towards synthesis of proteins.
  • Michael Francis Atiyah 1975, Global geometry.
  • 1974 Desmond King - Hele, A view of Earth and air.
  • 1973 Frederick Charles Frank, Crystals imperfect.
  • Dorothy Mary Crowfoot Hodgkin in 1972, insulin.
  • 1971 Basil John Mason, The physics of the thunderstorm.
  • 1970 Derek Harold Richard Barton, Some approaches to the synthesis of tetracycline.
  • 1969 Richard Henry Dalitz, Particles and interactions: the problems of high-energy physics
  • 1968 Fred Hoyle, Review of recent developments in cosmology
  • 1967 Edward Crisp Bullard, reversals of the Earth 's magnetic field
  • 1966 Ronald George Wreyford Norrish, The progress of photochemistry exemplified by reactions of the halogens
  • 1965 Melvin Calvin: Chemical evolution
  • 1964 Frederic Calland Williams, Inventive technology: the search for better electric machines
  • 1963 Alan Howard Cottrell, Fracture
  • John Desmond Bernal 1962, The structure of liquids
  • 1961 James Lighthill, sound generated aerodynamically
  • 1960 Gerhard Herzberg, The spectra and structures of free methyl and free methylene.
  • 1959 Edmund Langley Hirst, Molecular structure in the polysaccharide group.
  • 1958 Martin Ryle, The nature of the cosmic radio sources.
  • 1957 Cecil Frank Powell, The elementary particles.
  • 1956 Harry Work Melville 'Addition polymerization.
  • 1955 Marcus Laurence Elwin Oliphant, The acceleration of charged particles to very high energies.
  • 1954 Alexander Robertus Todd, Chemistry of the nucleotides.
  • 1952 Harold Jeffreys, The Origin of the Solar System.
  • 1951 Eric Rideal, Reactions in monolayers.
  • Percy Williams Bridgman 1950, Physics above 20 000 kg/cm2.
  • 1949 Harold Raistrick, A region of biosynthesis.
  • 1948 George Paget Thomson, Nuclear explosion.
  • 1947 Harry Ricardo, Some problems in connexion with the development of a high-speed diesel engine.
  • Cyril Norman Hinshelwood 1946, The more recent work on the hydrogen -oxygen reaction.
  • 1945 Gordon Dobson, Meteorology of the lower stratosphere.
  • Walter Norman Haworth 1944, The structure, function and synthesis of polysaccharides.
  • 1943 Richard V. Southwell, Relaxation methods: a mathematics for engineering sciences.
  • 1942 Albert Chibnall, amino acid analysis and the structure of proteins.
  • Paul Adrien Maurice Dirac in 1941, The physical interpretation of quantum mechanics.
  • 1940 Nevil Sidgwick and Herbert Marcus Powell, stereo Chemical types and valency groups.
  • Patrick Maynard Stuart Blackett 1939, Penetrating Cosmic Rays.
  • 1938 Christopher Kelk Ingold, The Structure of Benzene.
  • 1937 Edward Victor Appleton, regularities and Irregularities in the Ionosphere.
  • 1936 Frederic Stanley Kipping, Organic Compounds of Silicon.
  • 1935 Ralph Howard Fowler, The Anomalous Specific Heats of Crystals, with special reference to the Contribution of Molecular rotation.
  • 1934 William Lawrence Bragg, The Structure of Alloys.
  • 1933 James Chadwick, The neutron.
  • 1932 William Arthur Bone, The Combustion of Hydrocarbons.
  • 1931 Sydney Chapman, Some Phenomena of the Upper Atmosphere.
  • 1930 Robert Robinson, The Molecular Structure of Strychnine and Brucine.
  • 1929 Edward Arthur Milne, The Structure and Opacity of a Stellar Atmosphere.
  • 1928 John Cunningham McLennan, The Aurora and its Spectrum.
  • Arthur Stanley Eddington in 1926, Diffuse Matter in Interstellar Space.
  • 1922 Thomas Ralph Merton and S. Barratt: On the Spectrum of Hydrogen.
  • 1921 Thomas Martin Lowry and Percy Corlett Austin, Optical Rotatory Dispersion. Part II Tartaric Acid and the tartrate.
  • 1920 Ernest Rutherford, Nuclear Constitution of Atoms.
  • 1919 Robert John Strutt, A Study of the Line Spectrum of Sodium as Excited by Fluorescence.
  • 1918 Charles Algernon Parsons, Experiments on the Artificial Production of Diamond.
  • 1916 Charles Glover Barkla, X -rays and the Theory of Radiation.
  • 1915 William Henry Bragg, X -rays and Crystals.
  • 1914 Alfred Fowler, Series Lines in Spark Spectra.
  • 1913 Joseph John Thomson, Rays of Positive Electricity.
  • 1912 Hugh Longbourne Callendar, On the Variation of the Specific Heat of Water, with Experiments by a new method.
  • 1911 Robert John Strutt, A Chemically Active Modification of Nitrogen Produced by the Electric Discharge.
  • 1910 John Henry Poynting and Guy Barlow, The Pressure of Light against the Source: the Recoil from Light.
  • 1909 Joseph Larmor, On the Statistical and Thermal dynamical relations of Radiant Energy.
  • 1908 Charles H. Lee, The Effects of Temperature and Pressure on the Thermal Conductivities of Solids.
  • 1907 Thomas Edward Thorpe, The Atomic Weight of Radium.
  • 1906 John Milne, Recent Advances in Seismology.
  • 1905 Horace Tabberer Brown, The Reception and Utilization of Energy by the Green Leaf.
  • 1904 Ernest Rutherford, The Succession of Changes in Radio -active Bodies.
  • 1903 Charles Heycock and FH Neville, On the Constitution of the Copper - tin Series of Alloys.
  • 1902 Lord Rayleigh, On the Law of the Pressure of Gases in between 75 and 150 Millimetres of Mercury.
  • 1901 James Dewar, The Nadir of Temperature and Allied problem.
  • 1900 William Augustus Tilden, On the Specific Heat of Metals and the Relation of Specific Heat to Atomic Weight.

19th century

18th century

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