Royal Institution Christmas Lectures

Royal Institution Christmas Lectures är en årlig vetenskapsföreläsning i London med syftet att presentera komplexa vetenskapliga frågor till barn och ungdom på ett informativt och underhållande sätt. Föreläsningarna instiftades 1825 av Royal Institution of Great Britain i London och har fortsatt årligen med undantag för åren under andra världskriget. Många välkända vetenskapsmän har gett föreläsningar, inklusive fysikern Michael Faraday, naturvetaren David Attenborough, astronomen Carl Sagan, biologen Richard Dawkins och nobelpristagaren George Porter.

TV-sändningar Föreläsningarna har visats i brittisk tv sedan 1966. Royal Institution (2008). "History of the RI Christmas Lectures ". Hämtad 23 januari, 2012. De sändes först på BBC Two mellan åren 1966–1999, på Channel 4 mellan 2000 och 2004, på Channel Five mellan 2005 och 2008 samt på More4 2009. Sedan 2010 har föreläsningarna visats på BBC Four.

Lista över föreläsare ÅrFöreläsareÄmne 1825 John Millington Natural Philosophy 1826 John Wallis Astronomy 1827 Michael Faraday Chemistry 1828 J. Wood Architecture 1829 Michael Faraday Electricity 1830 Thomas Webster Geology 1831 James Rennie Zoology 1832 Michael Faraday Chemistry 1833 John Lindley Botany 1834 William Thomas Brande Chemistry 1835 Michael Faraday Electricity 1836 William Thomas Brande Chemistry of the Gases 1837 Michael Faraday Chemistry 1838 John Wallis Astronomy 1839 William Thomas Brande The Chemistry of the Atmosphere and the Ocean 1840 John Frederic Daniell The First Principles of Franklinic Electricity 1841 Michael Faraday The Rudiments of Chemistry 1842 William Thomas Brande The Chemistry of the Non-Metallic Elements 1843 Michael Faraday First Principles of Electricity 1844 William Thomas Brande The Chemistry of the Gases 1845 Michael Faraday The Rudiments of Chemistry 1846 John Wallis The Rudiments of Astronomy 1847 William Thomas Brande The Elements of Organic Chemistry 1848 Michael Faraday The Chemical History of a Candle 1849 Robert Walker The Properties of Matter and the Laws of Motion 1850 William Thomas Brande The Chemistry of Coal 1851 Michael Faraday Attractive Forces 1852 Michael Faraday Chemistry 1853 Michael Faraday Voltaic Electricity 1854 Michael Faraday The Chemistry of Combustion 1855 Michael Faraday The Distinctive Properties of the Common Metals 1856 Michael Faraday Attractive Forces 1857 Michael Faraday Static Electricity 1858 Michael Faraday The Metallic Properties 1859 Michael Faraday The Various Forces of Matter and their Relations to Each Other 1860 Michael Faraday The Chemical History of a Candle 1861 John Tyndall Light 1862 Edward Frankland Air and Water 1863 John Tyndall Electricity at Rest and Electricity in Motion 1864 Edward Frankland The Chemistry of a Coal 1865 John Tyndall Sound 1866 Edward Frankland The Chemistry of Gases 1867 John Tyndall Heat and Cold 1868 William Odling The Chemical Changes of Carbon 1869 John Tyndall Light 1870 William Odling Burning and Unburning 1871 John Tyndall Ice, Water, Vapour and Air 1872 William Odling Air and Gas 1873 John Tyndall The Motion and Sensation of Sound 1874 John Hall Gladstone The Voltaic Battery 1875 John Tyndall Experimental Electricity 1876 John Hall Gladstone The Chemistry of Fire 1877 John Tyndall Heat, Visible and Invisible 1878 James Dewar A Soap Bubble 1879 John Tyndall Water and Air 1880 James Dewar Atoms 1881 Robert Stawell Ball The Sun, the Moon and the Planets 1882 John Tyndall Light and the Eye 1883 James Dewar Alchemy in Relation to Modern Science 1884 John Tyndall The Sources of Electricity 1885 James Dewar The Story of a Meteorite 1886 James Dewar The Chemistry of Light and Photography 1887 Robert Stawell Ball Astronomy 1888 James Dewar Clouds and Cloudland 1889 Arthur Rücker Electricity 1890 James Dewar Frost and Fire 1891 J.G. McKendrick Life in Motion; or the Animal Machine 1892 Robert Stawell Ball Astronomy 1893 James Dewar Air: Gaseous and Liquid 1894 John Ambrose Fleming The Work of an Electric Current 1895 John Gray McKendrick Sound, Hearing and Speech 1896 Sylvanus Phillips Thompson Light, Visible and Invisible 1897 Oliver Lodge The Principles of the Electric Telegraph 1898 Robert Stawell Ball Astronomy 1899 Charles Vernon Boys Fluids in Motion and at Rest 1900 Robert Stawell Ball Great Chapters from the Book of Nature 1901 John Ambrose Fleming Waves and Ripples in Water, Air and Aether 1902 Henry Selby Hele-Shaw Locomotion - on the Earth, through the Water, in the Air 1903 Edwin Ray Lankester Extinct Animals 1904 Henry Cunynghame Ancient and Modern Methods of Measuring Time 1905 Herbert Hall Turner Astronomy 1906 William Duddell Signalling to a Distance 1907 David Gill Astronomy, Old and New 1908 William Stirling The Wheel of Life 1909 William Duddell Modern Electricity 1910 Sylvanus Phillips Thompson Sound: Musical and Non-Musical 1911 Peter Chalmers Mitchell The Childhood of Animals 1912 James Dewar Christmas Lecture Epilogues 1913 Herbert Hall Turner A Voyage in Space 1914 Charles Vernon Boys Science in the Home 1915 Herbert Hall Turner Wireless Messages from the Stars 1916 Arthur Keith The Human Machine Which All Must Work 1917 John Ambrose Fleming Our Useful Servants - Magnetism and Electricity 1918 D'Arcy Wentworth Thompson The Fish of the Sea 1919 William Henry Bragg The World of Sound 1920 John Arthur Thomson The Haunts of Life 1921 John Ambrose Fleming Electric Waves and Wireless Telephony 1922 Herbert Hall Turner Six Steps Up the Ladder to the Stars 1923 William Henry Bragg Concerning the Nature of Things 1924 Francis Balfour Browne Concerning the Habits of Insects 1925 William Henry Bragg Old Trades and New Knowledge 1926 A.V. Hill Nerves and Muscles: How We Feel and Move 1927 Edward Neville da Costa Andrade Engines 1928 Alexander Wood Sound Waves and their Uses 1929 Stephen Ranulph Kingdom Glanville How Things Were Done in Ancient Egypt 1930 Arthur Mannering Tyndall The Electric Spark 1931 William Lawrence Bragg The Universe of Light 1932 Alexander Oliver Rankine The Round of the Waters 1933 James Hopwood Jeans Through Space and Time 1934 William Lawrence Bragg Electricity 1935 Charles Edward Kenneth Mees Photography 1936 G.I. Taylor Ships 1937 Julian Huxley Rare Animals and the Disappearance of Wild Life 1938 James Kendall Young Chemists and Great Discoveries 1939 Ingen föreläsning 1940 Ingen föreläsning 1941 Ingen föreläsning 1942 Ingen föreläsning 1943 Edward Neville da Costa Andrade Vibrations and Waves 1944 Harold Spencer Jones Astronomy in our Daily Life 1945 Robert Watson-Watt Wireless 1946 H. Hartridge Colours and How We See Them 1947 Eric K. Rideal Chemical Reactions: How They Work 1948 F. Bartlett The Mind at Work and Play 1949 Percy Dunsheath The Electric Current 1950 Edward Neville da Costa Andrade Waves and Vibrations 1951 James Gray How Animals Move 1952 Frank Sherwood Taylor How Science Has Grown 1953 John Ashworth Ratcliffe The Uses of Radio Waves 1954 Frank Whittle The Story of Petroleum 1955 Harry Work Melville Big Molecules 1956 Harry Baines Photography 1957 Julian Huxley & James Fisher Birds 1958 John Ashworth Ratcliffe, James Stagg, Robert Boyd, Graham Sutton, George Deacon & Gordon de Quetteville Robin The International Geophysical Year 1959 Thomas Allibone The Release and Use of Atomic Energy 1960 Vernon Ellis Cosslett Seeing the Very Small 1961 William Lawrence Bragg Electricity 1962 R.E.D. Bishop Vibration 1963 Ronald King Energy 1964 Desmond Morris Animal Behaviour 1965 Bernard Lovell, Francis Graham Smith,Martin Ryle & Antony Hewish Exploration of the Universe Tv-sända föreläsningar. De flesta med extern videolänk (på Royal Institutions hemsida) i tabellen nedan. ÅrFöreläsareÄmneVideo 1966 Eric Laithwaite The Engineer in Wonderland 1967 Richard Gregory The Intelligent Eye 1968 Philip Morrison Gulliver's Laws: the Physics of Large and Small Video 1969 George Porter Time Machines 1970 John Napier Monkeys Without Tails: A Giraffe's Eye-view of Man 1971 Charles Taylor Sounds of Music: the Science of Tones and Tune 1972 Geoffrey George Gouriet Ripples in the Ether: the Science of Radio Communication Video 1973 David Attenborough The Language of Animals Video 1974 Eric Laithwaite The Engineer Through the Looking Glass Video 1975 Heinz Wolff Signals from the Interior Video 1976 George Porter The Natural History of a Sunbeam 1977 Carl Sagan The Planets Video 1978 Christopher Zeeman Mathematics into Pictures Video 1979 E.M. Rogers Atoms for Engineering Minds: a Circus of Experiments 1980 David Phillips, Max Perutz The Chicken, the Egg and the Molecules Video 1981 Reginald Victor Jones From Magna Carta to Microchip Video 1982 Colin Blakemore Common Sense 1983 Leonard Maunder Machines in Motion Video 1984 Walter Bodmer The Message of the Genes Video 1985 John David Pye Communicating Video 1986 Lewis Wolpert Frankenstein's Quest: Development of Life 1987 John Meurig Thomas, David Phillips Crystals and Lasers Video 1988 Gareth Roberts The Home of the Future 1989 Charles Taylor Exploring Music 1990 Malcolm S Longair Origins 1991 Richard Dawkins Growing Up in the Universe Video 1992 Charles J.M. Stirling Our World Through the Looking Glass Video 1993 Frank Close The Cosmic Onion Video 1994 Susan Greenfield Journey to the Centre of the Brain 1995 James A. Jackson Planet Earth, An Explorer's guide 1996 Simon Conway Morris The History in our Bones 1997 Ian Stewart The Magical Maze Video 1998 Nancy Rothwell Staying Alive Video 1999 Neil F. Johnson Arrows of Time Video 2000 Kevin Warwick Rise of the Robots 2001 John Sulston The Secrets of Life 2002 Tony Ryan Smart Stuff Video 2003 Monica Grady Voyage in Space and Time 2004 Lloyd Peck To the End of the Earth: surviving Antarctic extremes 2005 John Krebs The Truth About Food Video 2006 Marcus du Sautoy The Num8er My5teries Video 2007 Hugh Montgomery Back from the brink: the science of survival Video 2008 Christopher Bishop Hi-tech Trek - The Quest for the Ultimate Computer Video 2009 Sue Hartley The 300 Million Years War Video 2010 Mark Miodownik Size Matters Video 2011 Bruce Hood Meet Your Brain Video 2012 Peter Wothers The Modern Alchemist Video 2013 Alison Woollard Life Fantastic Video 2014 Danielle George Sparks will fly: How to Hack your Home Video 2015 Kevin Fong How to survive in space Video 2016 Saiful Islam Supercharged: Fuelling the future Video 2017 Sophie Scott The Language of Life Video 2018 Alice Roberts, Aoife McLysaght Who am I? Video 2019 Hannah Fry Secrets and Lies Video 2020 Tara Shine, Chris Jackson, Helen Czerski Planet Earth: A user’s guide

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