The Rutherford Memorial Lecture is an international lecture of the Royal Society

Royal Society

The Royal Society of London for Improving Natural Knowledge, known simply as the Royal Society, is a learned society for science, and is possibly the oldest such society in existence. Founded in November 1660, it was granted a Royal Charter by King Charles II as the "Royal Society of London"...

created under the Rutherford Memorial Scheme in 1952. It is held at universities in various countries in the Commonwealth, with a stipulation that at least one of every three lectures must be held in New Zealand.

List of lecturers

Year	Name	Country	Lecture	Notes
1952

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|1953||||Canada|||| align=center|
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|1954||||South Africa||Rutherford, his Life and Work 1871-1937||align= center|
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|1955||||India and Pakistan||Science and mankind|| align=center| -
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|1956||||New Zealand||The Discovery of atomic number||align=center|
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|1957||||Australia||The Birth of the nuclear atom||align=center|
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|1958||||Canada|||| align=center|
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|1960||||New Zealand||The Development of X-ray analysis||align=center|
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|1962||||Nigeria, Rhodesia and Nyasaland, Uganda||Atomic physics and the strength of metals||align=center|
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|1963||||India and Pakistan|||| align=center| -
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|1964||||New Zealand||Rutherford in nineteenth-century Cambridge||align=center|
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|1965||||Canada||||align = center|
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|1966||||Australia||||align = center|-
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|1967||||New Zealand||||align=center| -
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|1968||||India and Pakistan||Some problems of the growth and spread of science in developing countries.||align = center|
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|1969|||| Canada||||align=center|-
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|1970|||| Kenya, Tanzania and Uganda||||align=center| -
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|1971||||New Zealand||Evolution of the elements||align=center|
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|1975||||Australia||Yarns and Spinners:Recollections of Rutherford and Applications of Swift Rotation|| align=center |
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|1977||||Canada||Some episodes of the α-particle story|| align = center|
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|1979 ||||New Zealand||The New Physics||align=center|
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|1980||||India and Sri Lanka||Magnetic Oscillations in metals|| align=center|
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|1981||||Zimbabwe|||| align=center|-
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|1982||||New Zealand||Rutherford, Radio and Opto-Electronics||align=center|
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|1983||||Canada||Rutherford and beta decay|| align=center|
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|1984||||Australia|||| align = center|-
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|1985||||New Zealand||||align=center| -
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|1986||||India|||| align = center|-
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|1987||||Canada|||| align=center|-
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|1988||||New Zealand||||align=center| -
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|1989||||Australia|||| -
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|1990||||Canada|||| -
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|1991||||New Zealand||||align=center| -
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|1992||||India|||| -
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|1993||||South-east Asia|||| -
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|1995||||New Zealand||||align=center| —
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|1996||||Australia|||| -
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|1997||||New Zealand||||align=center| —
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|1999||||South Africa|||| -
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|2000||||New Zealand||||align=center| -
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|2003||||New Zealand||||align=center| -
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|2005||||Singapore|||| -
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|2006||||New Zealand||||align=center| -
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|2007||||Australia|||| -
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|2010||||New Zealand||Maths, maps and the human heart||align=center| -
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