Robert Boyle Lecture

The Robert Boyle Lecture is a lecture series delivered to the Oxford University Scientific Club (formerly the Oxford University Junior Scientific Club) at the University of Oxford, England. The first lecture was delivered in 1892.

The lectures

1 - The place in science and the character of Robert Boyle
2 - Molecular Tactics of a Crystal
5 - Argon and Helium, the Two Recently Discovered Gases
8 - Magnetism in Growth
9 - The rise of the experimental method in Oxford
13 - The Pressure of Light
14 - The Scope and Importance to the State of the Science of National Eugenics
17 - The Fertility of the Soil
18 - The Growth of a Crystal
21 - Nationality and Race (delivered by Arthur Keith)^[1]
22 - Anthropology and history
23 - Electrons and Ether Waves
27 - The Geological Age of the Earth
28 - Recent Developments in Atomic Theory
33 - The Problems of Specificity in Biochemical Catalysis
39 - The structure of alloys
49 - Anatomical pattern as the essential basis of sensory discrimination
50 - Science and International Relations
53 - A Hundred Years of Spectroscopy...

Lecturers

In 1998, the lecture was presented by Kevin Warwick.

References

↑ Nationality and Race from an Anthropologist's Point of View by Arthur Keith, 1919, Project Gutenberg.

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