James Scott Prize Lectureship
The James Scott Prize Lectureship is given every four years by the Royal Society of Edinburgh for a lecture on the fundamental concepts of Natural Philosophy. The prize was established in 1918 as a memorial to James Scott by trustees of his estate.[1]
| Years: Recipient | Lecture Title |
|---|---|
| 1918-1922: Alfred North Whitehead[2] | The Relatedness of Nature (delivered June 5, 1922) |
| 1922-1927: Joseph Larmor[3] | The Grasp of Mind on Nature (delivered July 4, 1927) |
| 1927-1930: Niels Bohr[4][5] | Philosophical Aspects of Atomic Theory (delivered May 26, 1930) |
| 1930-1933: Arnold Sommerfeld[3] | Ways to the Knowledge of Nature (delivered May 1, 1933) |
| 1933-1938: P. A. M. Dirac[3][4] | The Relation between Mathematics and Physics (delivered February 6, 1939) |
| 1940-1943: Edward Arthur Milne[4] | Fundamental Concepts of Natural Philosophy |
| 1945-1948: Herbert Dingle[6] | The Nature of Scientific Philosophy (delivered July 5, 1948) |
| 1955-1958: C.D. Broad[7] | Some Remarks on Change, Continuity, and Discontinuity (delivered November 11, 1957) |
| 1958-1961: Herbert Butterfield[8] | The Place of the Scientific Revolution in the History of Thought |
| 1960-1963: Hermann Bondi[9] | ? |
| 1963-1966: William Lawrence Bragg[10] | The Spirit of Science [11] (delivered July 3, 1967) |
| 1966-1970: Karl Popper[12] | Conjectural Knowledge: My Solution of the Problem of Induction (delivered June 7, 1971) |
| 1970-1974: Nicholas Kurti[13] | Meditations on Heat and Cold (date delivered October 25, 1976) |
| 1974-1979: D.W. Sciama[14] | The Beginning and End of the Universe (delivered June 7, 1982) |
| 1984-1987: W. Cochran[15] | ? |
| 1993-1996: Peter Higgs[1] | ? |
| 1997-2000: Roger Penrose[1] | ? |
| 2001-2004: Michael Berry[1] | Making Light of Mathematics (delivered December 9, 2002) |
| 2005-2008: Stephen M. Barnett[16] | Security, Insecurity, Paranoia and Quantum Mechanics (delivered February 4, 2008) |
References
- ^ a b c d "Royal Society of Edinburgh Research Awards". Retrieved 2008-03-13.
- ^ The Principle of Relativity with Applications to Physical Science. Retrieved 2008-03-13.
- ^ a b c Proceedings of the royal society of edinburgh, volume 60, 1939-1940, p.441
- ^ a b c "Cosmology: Methodological Debates in the 1930s and 1940s". Retrieved 2008-03-13.
- ^ page 351 of Volume 6 of the Niels Bohr Collected Works (North-Holland Physics Publishing, 1985)
- ^ Title: Obituary - Dingle, Herbert, Authors: Whitrow, G. J., Journal: ROYAL ASTRON. SOC. QUARTERLY JOURNAL V. 21, P. 333, 1980
- ^ Nature - Page 511. Retrieved 2009-04-10.
- ^ p. 130 of the Royal Society of Edinburgh, 1783-1983, Neil Campbell, 1983
- ^ Year Book of the Royal Society of Edinburgh By Royal Society of Edinburgh Published by Royal Society of Edinburgh., 1983
- ^ "Former Fellows of the Royal Society of Edinburgh. 1783-2002" (PDF). Retrieved 2009-04-10.
- ^ Year Book of the Royal Society of Edinburgh - Page 53. 1990. Retrieved 2009-04-10.
- ^ "lecture based on version appearing in Paul Arthur Schilpp, ed., The Philosophy of Karl Popper; revised lecture version published in Objective Knowledge, 1972". Retrieved 2008-09-17.
- ^ Year Book of the Royal Society of Edinburgh. Retrieved 2009-04-06.
- ^ Year Book of the Royal Society of Edinburgh. Retrieved 2009-04-06.
- ^ Year Book of the Royal Society of Edinburgh 1991 - P.23. Retrieved 2009-04-11.
- ^ "Research newsletter of the Department of Physics University of Strathclyde November 2007". Retrieved 2009-04-06.