Rede Lecture
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The Sir Robert Rede's Lecturer is an annual appointment to give a public lecture, the Sir Robert Rede's Lecture (usually Rede Lecture) at the University of Cambridge.[1] It is named for Sir Robert Rede, Chief Justice of the Common Pleas in the sixteenth century.
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[edit] Initial series
- 1683 John Naylor
- 1728 William Neville
- 1748 John Neville
- 1750 Richard Newbon
- 1790 Martin Joseph Naylor
[edit] 1858-1899
- 1859 Richard Owen On the classifaction and geographical distribution of the Mammalia
- 1860 John Phillips Life on the earth, its origin and succession
- 1861 Robert Willis The social and architectural history of Trinity College
- 1862 Edward Sabine The cosmical features of terrestrial magnetism
- 1863 David Thomas Ansted The correlation of the natural history sciences
- 1864 George Biddell Airy The late observations of total eclipses of the sun, and the inferences from them
- 1865 John Tyndall On Radiation
- 1866 William Thomson The dissipation of energy
- 1867 John Ruskin The relation of national ethics to national art
- 1868 Friedrich Max Müller On the stratification of language
- 1869 William Huggins On the results of spectrum analysis of the heavenly bodies
- 1870 William Allen Miller On some chemical processes of forming organic compounds, with illustrations from the coal tar colours
- 1871 Joseph Norman Lockyer Recent solar discoveries
- 1872 Edward Augustus Freeman The Unity of History
- 1873 Peter Guthrie Tait Thermo-electricity
- 1874 Samuel White Baker Slavery
- 1875 Henry James Sumner Maine The effects of observation of India upon modern European thought
- 1876 Samuel Birch The monumental history of ancient Egypt
- 1877 Charles Wyville Thomson On some of the results of the expedition of H.M.S. Challenger
- 1878 James Clerk Maxwell On the telephone
- 1879 William Henry Dallinger 'The origin of life, illustrated by the life histories of the least and lowest organisms in nature'
- 1880 George Murray Humphry 'Man, prehistoric, present, future'
- 1881 William Muir The early Caliphate
- 1882 Matthew Arnold Literature and Science
- 1883 Thomas Henry Huxley 'The origin of the existing forms of animal life: construction or evolution?[2]
- 1884 Francis Galton The Measurement of Human Faculty
- 1885 George John Romanes Mind and motion
- 1886 John Lubbock, 1st Baron Avebury On the forms of seedlings and the causes to which they are due
- 1887 John Robert Seeley Greater Britain in the Georgian and in the Victorian era
- 1888 William Muir The Early Caliphate and Rise of Islam
- 1889 George Gabriel Stokes On some effects of the action of light on ponderable matter
- 1890 Richard Claverhouse Jebb Erasmus
- 1891 Alfred Comyn Lyall Natural religion in India
- 1892 Thomas George Bonney The microscope's contributions to the earth's physical history
- 1893 Michael Foster Weariness
- 1894 John Willis Clark Libraries in the Medieval and Renaissance Periods
- 1895 Mandell Creighton The Early Renaissance in England
- 1896 J. J. Thomson Röntgen rays
- 1897 Arthur William Rücker Recent researches on terrestrial magnetism
- 1898 Henry Irving The theatre in its relation to the state
- 1899 Marie Alfred Cornu La théorie des ondes lumineuses: son influence sur la physique moderne
[edit] 1900-1949
- 1900 Frederic Harrison Byzantine history in the early middle age
- 1901 Frederic William Maitland English Law and the Renaissance
- 1902 Osborne Reynolds On an inversion of ideas as to the structure of the Universe
- 1903 George Walter Prothero Napoleon III and the Second Empire
- 1904 James Alfred Ewing The structure of metals
- 1905 Francis Edward Younghusband Our true relationship with India
- 1906 William Mitchell Ramsay The wars between Moslem and Christian for the possession of Asia Minor
- 1907 Aston Webb The art of achitecture, and the training required to practise it
- 1908 Ernest Mason Satow An Austrian diplomatist in the fifties
- 1909 Archibald Geikie Charles Darwin as Geologist
- 1910 Charles Harding Firth The parallel between the English and American Civil Wars
- 1911 Charles Algernon Parsons Steam turbines
- 1912 George Gilbert Aimé Murray The chorus in Greek tragedy
- 1913 George Nathaniel Curzon Modern Parliamentary Eloquence
- 1914 Norman Moore St Bartholomew's Hospital in peace and war
- 1915 Frederic George Kenyon Ideals and characteristics of English culture
- 1916 George Forrest Browne The ancient cross-shafts of Bewcastle and Ruthwell
- 1917 Richard Tetley Glazebrook Science and industry
- 1918 Louis Alexander Mountbatten, 1st Marquess of Milford Haven The Royal Navy, 1815-1915
- 1919 Lord Moulton, Science and War
- 1920 James Scorgie Meston, 1st Baron Meston India at the crossways
- 1921 William Napier Shaw The air and its ways
- 1922 William Ralph Inge The Victorian Age
- 1923 Hendrick Antoon Lorentz Clerk Maxwell's electromagnetic theory
- 1924 Herbert Hensley Henson Byron
- 1925 Hugh Walpole Some notes on the evolution of the English novel
- 1926 Arthur Mayger Hind Claude Lorrain and modern art
- 1927 Josiah Stamp On stimulus in the economic life
- 1928 Michael Ernest Sadler Thomas Day: an English disciple of Rousseau
- 1929 John Buchan The Causal and the Casual in History
- 1930 James Hopwood Jeans The mysterious universe, resulting in the book The Mysterious Universe
- 1931 George Stuart Gordon Robert Bridges[2]
- 1932 Edgar Allison Peers St. John of the Cross
- 1933 Charles Scott Sherrington Brain and its mechanism
- 1934 Hugh Pattison Macmillan Two ways of thinking
- 1935 Daniel Hall The pace of progress
- 1936 Cedric Webster Hardwicke The drama to-morrow
- 1937 Harold George Nicolson The Meaning Of Prestige
- 1938 Patrick Playfair Laidlaw Virus diseases and viruses
- 1939 Edward Mellanby Some social and economic implications of the recent advances in medical science
- 1940 Augustus Moore Daniel Some approaches to judgment in painting
- 1941 E. M. Forster Virginia Woolf
- 1942 Archibald MacLeish American opinion of the war
- 1943 Max Beerbohm Lytton Strachey's writings
- 1944 Richard Livingstone Plato and modern education
- 1945 Norman Birkett National Parks and the countryside
- 1946 Edward Victor Appleton Terrestrial magnetism and the ionosphere
- 1947 Hubert Douglas Henderson The uses and abuses of economic planning
- 1948 Walter Hamilton Moberly Universities and the state
- 1949 Ernest William Barnes Religion and turmoil
[edit] 1950-1999
- 1950 Edward Bridges Portrait of a Profession
- 1951 Cecil Maurice Bowra Inspiration and poetry
- 1952 Walter Russell Brain The Contribution of Medicine to our Idea of the Mind
- 1953 Arthur Duncan Gardner The proper study of mankind
- 1954 Charles Alfred Coulson Science and religion: a changing relationship
- 1955 Lord David Cecil Walter Pater - the Scholar Artist
- 1956 John Betjeman The English Town in the Last Hundred Years
- 1957 Robert Wyndham Ketton-Cremer Matthew Prior
- 1958 Charles Galton Darwin The problems of world population
- 1959 C. P. Snow The Two Cultures
- 1960 Edgar Wind Classicism
- 1961 Lord Radcliffe Censors
- 1962 Robert Hall Planning
- 1963 Douglas William Logan The Years of Challenge
- 1964 Kenneth Hurlstone Jackson The oldest Irish tradition - a window on the early Iron Age
- 1965 Gavin de Beer Genetics and prehistory
- 1966 Harold McCarter Taylor Why should we study the Anglo-Saxons?
- 1967 Kenneth Wheare The university in the news
- 1968 Patrick Arthur Devlin, Lord Devlin The House of Lords and the Naval Prize Bill 1911
- 1969 Patrick Maynard Stuart Blackett The gap widens
- 1970 Kenneth Clark The artist grows old
- 1971 Herbert Butterfield The discontinuities between the generations in History: their effect on the transmission of political experience
- 1972 None
- 1973 Kingsley Dunham Non-renewable resources - a dilemma
- 1974 Walker Laing Macdonald Perry Higher education for adults: where more means better
- 1975 Alfred Alistair Cooke The American in England: from Emerson to S. J. Perelman
- 1976 Rupert Cross The golden thread of English Criminal Law: the burden of proof
- 1977 Richard Southern The historical experience
- 1978 Margaret Gowing Reflections on Atomic Energy History
- 1979 H.R.H. the Prince Philip Philosophy, politics and administration
- 1980 Shirley Williams Technology, employment, and change
- 1981 Frederick Sydney Dainton British universities: purposes, problems, and pressures
- 1982 Fred Hoyle Facts and Dogmas in Cosmology and Elsewhere
- 1983 David Towry Piper The increase of learning and other great objects
- 1984 Sir Clive Sinclair A time for change
- 1985 Brian Urquhart The United Nations and international law
- 1986 David Attenborough Islands
- 1987 Sir John Thompson A reconsideration of the ideas underlying the international system
- 1988 Roy Jenkins Lord Jenkins of Hillhead; 'An Oxford view of Cambridge'
- 1989 Peter Alexander Ustinov Communication
- 1990 Anne, H.R.H. the Princess Royal Punishment
- 1991 Peter Swinnerton-Dyer Policy on Higher Education and Research
- 1993 L. M. Singhvi A Tale of Three Cities
- 1994 Geoffrey Howe Nationalism and the Nation State
- 1996 Mary Robinson
- 1997 Leon Brittan Globalisation vs. Sovereignty? The European Response
- 1998 Rosalyn Higgins International Law in a Changing Legal System
