James Scott Prize Lectureship
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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.[1]
| Years: Recipient | Lecture Title |
|---|---|
| 1918-1922: Alfred North Whitehead[2] | The Relatedness of Nature (delivered June 5, 1922) |
| 1922-1927: Joseph Larmor[3] | The Grasp of Mind on Nature (delivered July 4, 1927) |
| 1927-1930: Niels Bohr[4][5] | Philosophical Aspects of Atomic Theory (delivered May 26, 1930) |
| 1930-1933: Arnold Sommerfeld[3] | Ways to the Knowledge of Nature (delivered May 1, 1933) |
| 1933-1938: P. A. M. Dirac[3][4] | The Relation between Mathematics and Physics (delivered February 6, 1939) |
| 1940-1943: Edward Arthur Milne[4] | Fundamental Concepts of Natural Philosophy |
| 1958-1961: Herbert Butterfield[6] | The Place of the Scientific Revolution in the History of Thought |
| 1990-1993: Peter Higgs[1] | ? |
| 1994-1997: Roger Penrose[1] | ? |
| 1998-2001: Michael Berry[1] | Making Light of Mathematics |
| 2002-2005: Stephen Barnett[1] | ? |
[edit] References
- ^ a b c d e Royal Society of Edinburgh Research Awards. Retrieved on 2008-03-13.
- ^ The Principle of Relativity with Applications to Physical Science. Retrieved on 2008-03-13.
- ^ a b c Proceedings of the royal society of edinburgh, volume 60, 1939-1940, p.441
- ^ a b c Cosmology: Methodological Debates in the 1930s and 1940s. Retrieved on 2008-03-13.
- ^ page 351 of Volume 6 of the Niels Bohr Collected Works (North-Holland Physics Publishing, 1985)
- ^ p. 130 of the The Royal Society of Edinburgh, 1783-1983, Neil Campbell, 1983
