James Scott Prize Lectureship
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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.
Royal Society of Edinburgh
The Royal Society of Edinburgh is Scotland's national academy of science and letters. It is a registered charity, operating on a wholly independent and non-party-political basis and providing public benefit throughout Scotland...
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.
| Years: Recipient | Lecture Title |
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| 1918-1922: Alfred North Whitehead Alfred North Whitehead Alfred North Whitehead, OM FRS was an English mathematician who became a philosopher. He wrote on algebra, logic, foundations of mathematics, philosophy of science, physics, metaphysics, and education... |
The Relatedness of Nature (delivered June 5, 1922) |
| 1922-1927: Joseph Larmor Joseph Larmor Sir Joseph Larmor , a physicist and mathematician who made innovations in the understanding of electricity, dynamics, thermodynamics, and the electron theory of matter... |
The Grasp of Mind on Nature (delivered July 4, 1927) |
| 1927-1930: Niels Bohr Niels Bohr Niels Henrik David Bohr was a Danish physicist who made foundational contributions to understanding atomic structure and quantum mechanics, for which he received the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1922. Bohr mentored and collaborated with many of the top physicists of the century at his institute in... |
Philosophical Aspects of Atomic Theory (delivered May 26, 1930) |
| 1930-1933: Arnold Sommerfeld Arnold Sommerfeld Arnold Johannes Wilhelm Sommerfeld was a German theoretical physicist who pioneered developments in atomic and quantum physics, and also educated and groomed a large number of students for the new era of theoretical physics... |
Ways to the Knowledge of Nature (delivered May 1, 1933) |
| 1933-1938: P. A. M. Dirac Paul Dirac Paul Adrien Maurice Dirac, OM, FRS was an English theoretical physicist who made fundamental contributions to the early development of both quantum mechanics and quantum electrodynamics... |
The Relation between Mathematics and Physics (delivered February 6, 1939) |
| 1940-1943: Edward Arthur Milne Arthur Milne Edward Arthur Milne FRS was a British astrophysicist and mathematician.- Biography :Milne was born in Hull, Yorkshire, England... |
Fundamental Concepts of Natural Philosophy |
| 1945-1948: Herbert Dingle Herbert Dingle Herbert Dingle , an English physicist and natural philosopher, who served as president of the Royal Astronomical Society from 1951 to 1953, is best known for his opposition to Albert Einstein's special theory of relativity and the protracted controversy that this provoked.-Biography:Dingle was born... |
The Nature of Scientific Philosophy (delivered July 5, 1948) |
| 1955-1958: C.D. Broad | Some Remarks on Change, Continuity, and Discontinuity (delivered November 11, 1957) |
| 1958-1961: Herbert Butterfield Herbert Butterfield Sir Herbert Butterfield was a British historian and philosopher of history who is remembered chiefly for two books—a short volume early in his career entitled The Whig Interpretation of History and his Origins of Modern Science... |
The Place of the Scientific Revolution in the History of Thought |
| 1960-1963: Hermann Bondi Hermann Bondi Sir Hermann Bondi, KCB, FRS was an Anglo-Austrian mathematician and cosmologist. He is best known for developing the steady-state theory of the universe with Fred Hoyle and Thomas Gold as an alternative to the Big Bang theory, but his most lasting legacy will probably be his important... |
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| 1963-1966: William Lawrence Bragg William Lawrence Bragg Sir William Lawrence Bragg CH OBE MC FRS was an Australian-born British physicist and X-ray crystallographer, discoverer of the Bragg law of X-ray diffraction, which is basic for the determination of crystal structure. He was joint winner of the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1915. He was knighted... |
The Spirit of Science (delivered July 3, 1967) |
| 1966-1970: Karl Popper Karl Popper Sir Karl Raimund Popper, CH FRS FBA was an Austro-British philosopher and a professor at the London School of Economics... |
Conjectural Knowledge: My Solution of the Problem of Induction (delivered June 7, 1971) |
| 1970-1974: Nicholas Kurti Nicholas Kurti Professor Nicholas Kurti FRS was a Hungarian-born physicist who lived in Oxford, UK, for most of his life. In his era, he was one of the leading experimental physicists.... |
Meditations on Heat and Cold (date delivered October 25, 1976) |
| 1974-1979: D.W. Sciama Dennis William Sciama Dennis William Siahou Sciama FRS was a British physicist who, through his own work and that of his students, played a major role in developing British physics after the Second World War. He is considered as one of the fathers of modern cosmology.-Life:Sciama was born in Manchester, England... |
The Beginning and End of the Universe (delivered June 7, 1982) |
| 1984-1987: W. Cochran | ? |
| 1993-1996: Peter Higgs Peter Higgs Peter Ware Higgs, FRS, FRSE, FKC , is an English theoretical physicist and an emeritus professor at the University of Edinburgh.... |
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| 1997-2000: Roger Penrose Roger Penrose Sir Roger Penrose OM FRS is an English mathematical physicist and Emeritus Rouse Ball Professor of Mathematics at the Mathematical Institute, University of Oxford and Emeritus Fellow of Wadham College... |
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| 2001-2004: Michael Berry | Making Light of Mathematics (delivered December 9, 2002) |
| 2005-2008: Steven Barnett | Security, Insecurity, Paranoia and Quantum Mechanics (delivered February 4, 2008) |