The Royal Institution Christmas Lectures are a series of lectures on a single topic each, which have been held at the Royal Institution in London each...
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these are the annual Royal Institution Christmas Lectures, founded by Michael Faraday in 1825. Despite Garnett's first lectures being a great success...
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James Dewar (category Fellows of the Royal Society)
"unopposed" by Dewar's wife. Dewar was invited to deliver several Royal Institution Christmas Lectures: A Soap Bubble (1878) Atoms (1880) Alchemy in Relation to...
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Hannah Fry (category Fellows of the Royal Academy of Engineering)
how mathematics can apply to them. Fry delivered the 2019 Royal Institution Christmas Lectures and has presented several programmes for the BBC, including...
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Kevin Warwick (category Fellows of the Institution of Engineering and Technology)
Lectures (inaugural and keynote lectures): 1998, Robert Boyle Lecture at the University of Oxford. 2000, Royal Institution Christmas Lectures. These...
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over the world. In 2015, he presented the Royal Institution Christmas Lectures, an annual series of lectures in front of a live audience of schoolchildren...
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Recurrent series of notable public lectures are presented in various countries. The Boyer Lectures delivered by prominent Australians, broadcast annually...
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Wren's lectures, and continued to meet there for the next fifty years. The Royal Institution of Great Britain has a long history of public lectures and demonstrations...
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conducted by Michael Faraday and became part of his series of Royal Institution Christmas Lectures, The Chemical History of a Candle. In the simplest case,...
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Christopher Bishop (category Fellows of the Royal Academy of Engineering)
Medal from the Royal Academy of Engineering in 2011. He gave the Royal Institution Christmas Lectures in 2008 and the Turing Lecture in 2010. Bishop...
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echolocation and light polarisation. He presented the 1985 Royal Institution Christmas Lectures on the theme of "Communicating" and has written the textbook...
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Provost's Award for Public engagement. Scott presented the Royal Institution Christmas Lectures in 2017 entitled The Language of Life which explored the...
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Experiment". Royal Society of Chemistry. April 2008. Retrieved 12 August 2011. "The Royal Institution Christmas Lectures 2012". Royal Institution of Great...
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Mark Miodownik (category Fellows of the Royal Academy of Engineering)
influential people in science and delivered that year's Royal Institution Christmas Lectures. The three-part series, Size Matters, looked at how size...
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2023 Royal Institution Christmas Lectures Wooldridge was the 300th guest on The Life Scientific interviewed by Jim Al-Khalili at the Royal Institution in...
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Royal Institution Christmas Lectures on the subject Back from the brink: the science of survival. 2010 Chosen to present the Ellison-Cliffe Lecture at...
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2020 Shine was announced as one of the speakers for the Royal Institution Christmas Lectures. Shine is from the Republic of Ireland. She earned her bachelor's...
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were previously unseen. The book grew out of the annual Royal Institution Christmas Lectures, which Dawkins delivered in 1991 (see Growing Up in the Universe)...
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Monica Grady (category Fellows of the Royal Astronomical Society)
2016, for her work in science communication. Grady gave the Royal Institution Christmas Lectures in 2003, on the subject "A Voyage in Space and Time". Asteroid...
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Lloyd Peck (category Fellows of the Royal Society)
presented the 2004 Royal Institution Christmas Lectures on surviving in the Antarctic. In 2024 he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society. "Lloyd Peck"...
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Marcus du Sautoy (category Fellows of the Royal Society)
2006 Royal Institution Christmas Lectures under the collective title The Num8er My5teries. This was only the third time the subject of the lectures had...
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alongside Lawrence Bragg numerous times as part of the televised Royal Institution Christmas Lectures. He was awarded the Lawrence Bragg Medal in 1975. Coates...
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Danielle George (category Fellows of the Institution of Engineering and Technology)
stars". George gave the 2014 Royal Institution Christmas Lectures on how to hack your home. At the time of the lectures, George was the sixth woman since...
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Enlightenment, and have long been a feature of the British Royal Institution Christmas Lectures, which date back to 1825. In the television era, scientific...
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Retrieved 21 October 2020. "Royal Institution Christmas Lectures". bbc.co.uk. Retrieved 29 December 2020. "CHRISTMAS LECTURES 2020: Planet Earth: A user's...
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she has held since 2017. In 2013 Woollard presented the Royal Institution Christmas Lectures. She has also been interviewed on the BBC radio programme...
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Technology Festival, and the Queen's Lecture in Berlin. She guest-presented the Royal Institution's Christmas Lectures in Japan in 2019 stepping in for Alice...
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Saiful Islam (chemist) (category Fellows of the Royal Society of Chemistry)
commemorative lecture series for the BBC which celebrated 80 years since the Christmas Lectures were first broadcast on television in 1936. The lectures were broadcast...
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Tony Ryan (scientist) (category Fellows of the Royal Society of Chemistry)
Grantham Centre for Sustainable Futures. He delivered the 2002 Royal Institution Christmas Lectures and has appeared on programmes including the BBC Radio 4...
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Outrageous Acts of Science. For the 2019 edition of the Royal Institution Christmas Lectures, televised on BBC Four, Parker assisted presenter Hannah...
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