Robert Boyle Lecture
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The Robert Boyle
Lecture is a lecture series delivered to the Oxford University Scientific Club (formerly the Oxford University Junior Scientific Club) at the University of Oxford
, England
. The first lecture was delivered in 1892.
Robert Boyle
Robert Boyle FRS was a 17th century natural philosopher, chemist, physicist, and inventor, also noted for his writings in theology. He has been variously described as English, Irish, or Anglo-Irish, his father having come to Ireland from England during the time of the English plantations of...
Lecture is a lecture series delivered to the Oxford University Scientific Club (formerly the Oxford University Junior Scientific Club) at the University of Oxford
University of Oxford
The University of Oxford is a university located in Oxford, United Kingdom. It is the second-oldest surviving university in the world and the oldest in the English-speaking world. Although its exact date of foundation is unclear, there is evidence of teaching as far back as 1096...
, England
England
England is a country that is part of the United Kingdom. It shares land borders with Scotland to the north and Wales to the west; the Irish Sea is to the north west, the Celtic Sea to the south west, with the North Sea to the east and the English Channel to the south separating it from continental...
. The first lecture was delivered in 1892.
The lectures
- 1 - The place in science and the character of Robert Boyle
- 2 - Molecular Tactics of a Crystal
- 5 - Argon and Helium, the Two Recently Discovered Gases
- 8 - Magnetism in Growth
- 9 - The rise of the experimental method in Oxford
- 14 - The Scope and Importance to the State of the Science of National Eugenics
- 21 - Nationality and Race (delivered by Arthur KeithArthur KeithSir Arthur Keith was a Scottish anatomist and anthropologist, who became a fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons of England and Hunterian Professor and conservator of the Hunterian Museum of the Royal College of Surgeons in London...
) - 22 - Anthropology and history
- 23 - Electrons and Ether Waves
- 27 - The Geological Age of the Earth
- 28 - Recent Developments in Atomic Theory
- 33 - The Problems of Specificity in Biochemical Catalysis
- 39 - The structure of alloys
- 49 - Anatomical pattern as the essential basis of sensory discrimination
- 50 - Science and International Relations
- 53 - A Hundred Years of Spectroscopy...