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.

Years: Recipient Lecture Title
1918-1922: Alfred North Whitehead The Relatedness of Nature
1922-1927: Joseph Larmor The Grasp of Mind on Nature
1927-1930: Niels Bohr Philosophical Aspects of Atomic Theory
1930-1933: Arnold Sommerfeld Ways to the Knowledge of Nature
1933-1938: P. A. M. Dirac The Relation between Mathematics and Physics
1940-1943: Edward Arthur Milne Fundamental Concepts of Natural Philosophy
1945-1948: Herbert Dingle The Nature of Scientific Philosophy
1955-1958: C.D. Broad Some Remarks on Change, Continuity, and Discontinuity
1958-1961: Herbert Butterfield The Place of the Scientific Revolution in the History of Thought
1960-1963: Hermann Bondi ?
1963-1966: William Lawrence Bragg The Spirit of Science
1966-1970: Karl Popper Conjectural Knowledge: My Solution of the Problem of Induction
1970-1974: Nicholas Kurti Meditations on Heat and Cold
1974-1979: D.W. Sciama The Beginning and End of the Universe
1984-1987: W. Cochran ?
1993-1996: Peter Higgs ?
1997-2000: Roger Penrose ?
2001-2004: Michael Berry Making Light of Mathematics
2005-2008: Stephen M. Barnett Security, Insecurity, Paranoia and Quantum Mechanics

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