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Pilgrim Trust Lecture

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The Pilgrim Trust Lecture was a lecture supported by the Pilgrim Trust, organised by the Royal Society of London and the National Academy of Sciences. It was held between 1938 and 1945.[1]

List of lecturers

Year Name Lecture Notes
1938 Irving Langmuir Molecular films
1939 William Henry Bragg History in the Archives of the Royal Society.
1940 Lawrence Joseph Henderson Not delivered due to illness
1943 Karl Taylor Compton Organization of American Scientists for the war.
1945 Hermann Joseph Muller The gene.

References

  1. ^ "The Pilgrim Trust Lecture (1938)". Retrieved 20 May 2013.