Lijst van sprekers op de Royal Institution Christmas Lectures
Dit is een overzicht van alle sprekers die een lezing hebben gehouden op de Royal Institution Christmas Lectures.
| Jaar | Spreker | Titel onderwerp |
|---|---|---|
| 1825 | John Millington | Natuurfilosofie |
| 1826 | J. Wallis | Astronomie |
| 1827 | Michael Faraday | Scheikunde |
| 1828 | J. Wood | Architectuur |
| 1829 | Michael Faraday | Elektriciteit |
| 1830 | Thomas Webster | Geologie |
| 1831 | James Rennie | Zoölogie |
| 1832 | Michael Faraday | Scheikunde |
| 1833 | John Lindley | Botanie |
| 1834 | William Thomas Brande | Scheikunde |
| 1835 | Michael Faraday | Elektriciteit |
| 1836 | William Thomas Brande | Scheikunde van gassen |
| 1837 | Michael Faraday | Scheikunde |
| 1838 | J. Wallis | Astronomie |
| 1839 | William Thomas Brande | Scheikunde van de atmosfeer en de oceaan |
| 1840 | John Frederic Daniell | "The First Principles of Franklinic Electricity" |
| 1841 | Michael Faraday | "The Rudiments of Chemistry" |
| 1842 | William Thomas Brande | Scheikunde van non-metale elementen |
| 1843 | Michael Faraday | "First Principles of Electricity" |
| 1844 | William Thomas Brande | Scheikunde van gassen |
| 1845 | Michael Faraday | "The Rudiments of Chemistry" |
| 1846 | J. 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 | Scheikunde |
| 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 | Statische elektriciteit |
| 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 | Geluid |
| 1866 | Edward Frankland | Scheikunde van gassen |
| 1867 | John Tyndall | "Heat and Cold" |
| 1868 | William Odling | "The Chemical Changes of Carbon" |
| 1869 | John Tyndall | Licht |
| 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 | Atomen |
| 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 | Astronomie |
| 1888 | James Dewar | "Clouds and Cloudland" |
| 1889 | Arthur Rücker | Elektriciteit |
| 1890 | James Dewar | "Frost and Fire" |
| 1891 | J.G. McKendrick | "Life in Motion; or the Animal Machine" |
| 1892 | Robert Stawell Ball | Astronomie |
| 1893 | James Dewar | "Air: Gaseous and Liquid" |
| 1894 | John Ambrose Fleming | "The Work of an Electric Current" |
| 1895 | J.G. 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 | Astronom |
| 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 | H.S. Hele-Shaw | "Locomotion - on the Earth, through the Water, in the Air" |
| 1903 | Edwin Ray Lankester | "Extinct Animals" |
| 1904 | H.H. Cunynghame | "Ancient and Modern Methods of Measuring Time" |
| 1905 | Herbert Hall Turner | Astronomie |
| 1906 | William Duddell | "Signalling to a Distance" |
| 1907 | David Gill | "Astronomy, Old and New" |
| 1908 | W. 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 | A. 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 | F. 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 | A. Wood | "Sound Waves and their Uses" |
| 1929 | Stephen Ranulph Kingdom Glanville | "How Things Were Done in Ancient Egypt" |
| 1930 | A.M. 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 | Elektriciteit |
| 1935 | C.E.K. Mees | Fotografie |
| 1936 | G.I. Taylor | Ships |
| 1937 | Julian Huxley Rare | "Animals and the Disappearance of Wild Life" |
| 1938 | James Kendall | "Young Chemists and Great Discoveries" |
| 1939-1942 | Geen lezingen | |
| 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 | F. Sherwood Taylor | "How Science Has Grown" |
| 1953 | J.A. Ratcliffe | "The Uses of Radio Waves" |
| 1954 | Frank Whittle | "The Story of Petroleum" |
| 1955 | Harry W. Melville | "Big Molecules" |
| 1956 | H. Baines | Fotografie |
| 1957 | J. Huxley and J. Fisher | Vogels |
| 1958 | J.A. Ratcliffe, J.M. Stagg, | "The International Geophysical Year" |
| R.L.F. Boyd, Graham Sutton, | ||
| G.E.R. Deacon & G. de Q. Robin | ||
| 1959 | Thomas E. Allibone | "The Release and Use of Atomic Energy" |
| 1960 | V.E. Cosslett | "Seeing the Very Small" |
| 1961 | William Lawrence Bragg | Elektriciteit |
| 1962 | R.E.D. Bishop | Vibratie |
| 1963 | Ronald King | Energie |
| 1964 | Desmond Morris | "Animal Behaviour" |
| 1965 | Bernard Lovell, | "Exploration of the Universe" |
| Francis Graham Smith, | ||
| Martin Ryle en Anthony Hewish | ||
| 1966 | Eric R. Laithwaite | "The Engineer in Wonderland" |
| 1967 | Richard L. Gregory | "The Intelligent Eye" |
| 1968 | P. Morrison | "Gulliver's Laws: the Physics of Large and Small" |
| 1969 | George Porter | "Time Machines" |
| 1970 | J. Napier | "Monkeys Without Tails: A Giraffe's Eye-view of Man" |
| 1971 | Charles Taylor | "Sounds of Music: the Science of Tones and Tune" |
| 1972 | G.G. Gouriet | "Ripples in the Ether: the Science of Radio Communication" |
| 1973 | David Attenborough | "The Language of Animals" |
| 1974 | Eric R. Laithwaite | "The Engineer Through the Looking Glass" |
| 1975 | Heinz Wolff | "Signals from the Interior" |
| 1976 | George Porter | "The Natural History of a Sunbeam" |
| 1977 | Carl Sagan | "The Planets" |
| 1978 | E. Christopher Zeeman | "Mathematics into Pictures" |
| 1979 | E.M. Rogers | "Atoms for Engineering Minds: a Circus of Experiments" |
| 1980 | David Phillips | "The Chicken, the Egg and the Molecules" |
| en Max Perutz (lecture 5) | ||
| 1981 | R.V. Jones | "From Magna Carta to Microchip" |
| 1982 | Colin Blakemore | "Common Sense" |
| 1983 | Leonard Maunder | "Machines in Motion" |
| 1984 | Walter Bodmer | "The Message of the Genes" |
| 1985 | David Pye | "Communicating" |
| 1986 | Lewis Wolpert | "Frankenstein's Quest: Development of Life" |
| 1987 | John Meurig Thomas | "Crystals and Lasers" |
| en David Phillips | ||
| 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 |
| 1992 | Charles J.M. Stirling | "Our World Through the Looking Glass" |
| 1993 | Frank Close | "The Cosmic Onion" |
| 1994 | Susan Greenfield | "Journey to the Centre of the Brain" |
| 1995 | James Jackson | "Planet Earth, An Explorer's guide" |
| 1996 | Simon Conway Morris | "The History in our Bones" |
| 1997 | Ian Stewart | "The Magical Maze" |
| 1998 | Nancy Rothwell | "Staying Alive" |
| 1999 | Neil Johnson | "Arrow of Time" |
| 2000 | Kevin Warwick | "Rise of the Robots" |
| 2001 | John Sulston | "The Secrets of Life" |
| 2002 | Tony Ryan | "Smart Stuff" |
| 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" |
| 2006 | Marcus du Sautoy | "The Num8er My5teries" |
| 2007 | Hugh Montgomery | "Back from the brink: the science of survival" |
| 2008 | Christopher Bishop | "Hi-tech Trek - The Quest for the Ultimate Computer" |
| 2009 | Sue Hartley | "The 300 million year war" |
| 2010 | Dr. Mark Miodownik | "Size Matters" |
| 2011 | Bruce Hood | "Meet your Brain" |
| 2012 | Peter Wothers | "The Modern Alchemist" |
| 2013 | Allison Woolard | "Life Fantastic" |