Kelvin Lecture
Is life quantum mechanical?
18 April 2013 | IET London: Savoy Place
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Past speakers (1900 - 1999)
This section provides a list of the past speakers at this Prestige Lecture
Year | Speaker | Title of lecture |
| 1999 | Professor M S Longair
| The Origins of our Universe
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| 1998 | Professor Sir Harry Kroto
| C60 Buckminsterfullerene: Not Just a Pretty Molecule
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| 1997 | Dr M P Kennedy
| Chaos and its Applications
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| 1996 | Dr P Cattermole
| Venus: A new View Through Radar Eyes
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| 1995 | Professor M W J Ferguson
| The Elephant's Trunk and the Tattooed Lady: Engineering Problems and Opportunities in Biology
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| 1994 | Professor C E Gough
| High Temperature Superconductors
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| 1993 | Professor A Heuberger
| Realisation of Complex Systems in Silicon
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| 1992 | Professor P Rolfe
| Sensors and Systems that Mimic Nature
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| 1991 | Professor P C W Davies
| The Search for Gravitational Waves
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| 1990 | Dr J W Orton
| Engineering Semiconductors
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| 1989 | Professor J C Dainty
| Imaging by Interferometry in Optical Astronomy
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| 1988 | Dr D C Robinson
| Thermo-Nuclear Fusion
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| 1987 | Professor D H Perkins
| Neutrinos
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| 1986 | Professor I Aleksander
| Information Technology
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| 1985 | Professor D M MacKay
| The Engineering of the Human Brain
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| 1984 | Professor D Jérome
| Organic Superconductivity
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| 1983 | Professor D H Martin
| The Submillimetre-wave Universe
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| 1982 | Professor O S Heavens
| The "Simple" Surface
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| 1981 | Professor Sir George Porter
| Kelvin and the Energy Problems
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| 1980 | Professor E C Zeeman
| Catastrophes and Bifurcations
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| 1979 | Dr J M Burch
| Inteferometry without Mirrors
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| 1978 | Dr A Bueche
| Electrical Technology and Polymer Science
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| 1977 | R S Pease
| The Physical Basis for Control Thermonuclear Fuison
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| 1976 | Professor A Hewish FRS
| The Pulsar Dynamo
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| 1975 | Sir Charles Oatley
| The Scanning Electron Microscope and other Electron Probe Instruments
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| 1974 | Professor S K Runcorn FRS
| Kelvin’s Legacy to Geophysics
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| 1973 | Professor Sir Nevill Mott FRS
| Conduction in Amorphous Materials – Theory and Applications
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| 1972 | Professor F C Frank OBE DPhil FRS
| Crystals
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| 1971 | Professor N Kurti MA DPhil FInstP FRS
| From Microkelvin to Megakelvin Temperatures
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| 1970 | Professor F Hoyle FRS
| Quasers and Radiogalaxies
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| 1969 | Professor R V Jones CB CBE FRS
| The Pursuit of Measurement
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| 1968 | Dr B J Mason FRS
| Recent Developments in Meteorology and the World Weather Watch
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| 1967 | Professor F. P Bowden
| Recent Studies in Surface Physics
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| 1966 | Sir Harrie Masseg
| Scientific Research in Space
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| 1965 | Professor O R Frisch CBE DSc FRS
| Fundamental Particals
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| 1964 | Professor A B Pippard
| Superconducting Magnets
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| 1963 | J B Adams CMG MA FRS
| High Energy Particle Acceleration for Nuclear Physics Research
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| 1962 | Professor B Bleaney FRS
| Microspectroscopy
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| 1961 | Professor R F Woolmer FFA RCS, VRD
| Medical Electronics
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| 1960 | Professor C F Powell MA PhD ScD FRS
| Cosmic Radiation
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| 1959 | Sir David Brunt ScD FRS
| The Geophysical Year 1957-58
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| 1958 | Dr H W Melville FRS
| High Polymers
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| 1957 | Dr G B B M Sutherland ScD FRS
| Infra-Red Radiation
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| 1956 | Professor A C B Lovell OBE FRS
| Radio Astronomy
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| 1955 | Dr W Shochley BSc
| Transistor Physics
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| 1954 | J A Ratcliffe OBE MA FRS
| The Physics of the Ionosphere
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| 1953 | Professor P L Deo CBE MA FRS
| The Dilemma of Lord Kelvin
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| 1952 | Sir Charles Goodeve OBE DSc FRS
| Iron Atoms in the Service of the Electrical Engineer
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| 1951 | Sir John D Cockcroft CBE MA MSTech PhD FRS
| Modern Conceptions of the Ultimate Structure of Matter
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| 1950 | Professor E K Rideal MBE MA DSc FRS
| Phase-Boundary Potentials and their Significance in Chemistry
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| 1949 | Professor N F Mott MA FRS
| Semi-Conductors and Rectifiers
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| 1948 | Dr B H C Matthews CBE MA FRS
| The Nervous System as an Electrical Instrument
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| 1947 | Professor L B Loeb B.Sc, Ph.D
| Electrical Discharge though Gasses
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| 1946 | Professor M L Oliphant FRS
| Nuclear Physics and the Future
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| 1945 | Sir Edward V Appleton KCB MA DSc LLD FRS
| The Scientific Principles of Radiolocation
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| 1944 | Professor E C Stonor ScD FRS
| Magnetism in Theory and Practice
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| 1943 | Professor D R Hartree MA PhD FRS
| Mechanical Integration in the Solution of Electrical Problems
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| 1942 | Dr O E Buckley
| The Future of Transoceanic Telegraphy
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| 1941 | Dr S Chapman FRS
| Electrical Works by Helios or the Sun and Ionosphere
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| 1940 | Dr C G Darwin MC
| Thermodynamics and the Coldest Temperatures
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| 1939 | Professor P M S Blackett MS FRS
| Cosmic Rays
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| 1938 | Professor Max Born MA
| The Statistical Laws of Nature
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| 1937 | Professor J Chadwick FRS
| The Elementary Particles of Matter
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| 1936 | J D Cockcroft BA MScTech
| The Transmutation of Matter by High Energy Particles and Radiations
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| 1935 | Sir William H Bragg OM KBE MA DSc FRS
| The Molecular Structure of Dielectrics
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| 1934 | Professor J C MacLennan DSc LLD FRS
| Electrical Phenomena at Extremely Low Temperatures
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| 1933 | Sir Frank E Smith
| The Travel of Wireless Waves
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| 1932 | Dr W E Sumpner
| The Work of Oliver Heaviside
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| 1931 | Professor W L Bragg
| The Architecture of the Solid State
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| 1930 | R H Fowler FRS
| Some Recent Advances in the Electron Theory of Metals
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| 1929 | Dr G C Simpsons CB FRS
| Lightning
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| 1928 | Sir Oliver Lodge FRS
| The Revolution in Physics
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| 1927 | Professor E W Marchant DSc
| High-Frequency Currents
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| 1926 | Sir J J Thomson OM MA FRS
| The Mechanics of the Electric Field
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| 1925 | Professor J H Jeans FRS
| Electrical Forces and Quanta
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| 1924 | G Semenza
| Kelvin and the Economics of the Generation and Distribution of Electrical Energy
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| 1923 | Dr J A Fleming FRS
| Problems in Telephony Solved and Unsolved
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| 1922 | Sir Ernest Rutherford
| Electricity and Matter
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| 1921 | Sir William H Bragg
| Electrons
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| 1920 | Dr C V Drysdale
| Modern Marine Problems in War and Peace
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| 1918 | Ll B Atkinson
| The Dynamical Theory of Electric Engines
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| 1918 | Professor M Maclean
| Lord Kelvin as Teacher
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| 1916 | Dr A Russell (IEE Vice-President)
| Some aspects of Lord Kelvin’s Life and Work
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| 1915 | Dr C Chree
| Lord Kelvin and Terrestrial Magnetism
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| 1915 | Professor Andrew Gray
| Lord Kelvin’s Work on Gyrostations
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| 1914 | Sir Oliver Lodge
| The Electrification of the Atmosphere: Natural and Artificial
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| 1913 | Dr R T Glazebrook
| The Ohm, Ampere and the Volt: a Memory of 50 Years
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| 1912 | Professor H du Bois
| The Work of Lord Kelvin in Electricity and Magnetism
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| 1910 | Professor J A Ewing
| The Work of Lord Kelvin in Telegraphy and Navigation
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| 1908 | Silvanus P Thompson
| The Life and Work of Lord Kelvin
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Related documents
- The origins of our universe - Professor M S Longair (PDF)
- Paper on Silvanus P. Thompson - Peter G. Lamb (PDF)
See also
- Speakers (2000 - )
- A brief history of the Kelvin Lecture
