James Scott Prize Lectureship

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 5 June 1922)
1922-1927: Joseph Larmor[3] The Grasp of Mind on Nature (delivered 4 July 1927)
1927-1930: Niels Bohr[4][5] Philosophical Aspects of Atomic Theory (delivered 26 May 1930)
1930-1933: Arnold Sommerfeld[3] Ways to the Knowledge of Nature (delivered 1 May 1933)
1933-1938: P. A. M. Dirac[3][4] The Relation between Mathematics and Physics (delivered 6 February 1939)
1940-1943: Edward Arthur Milne[4] Fundamental Concepts of Natural Philosophy
1945-1948: Herbert Dingle[6] The Nature of Scientific Philosophy (delivered 5 July 1948)
1955-1958: C.D. Broad[7] Some Remarks on Change, Continuity, and Discontinuity (delivered 11 November 1957)
1958-1961: Herbert Butterfield[8] The Place of the Scientific Revolution in the History of Thought
1960-1963: Hermann Bondi[9]  ?
1963-1966: William Lawrence Bragg[10] The Spirit of Science [11] (delivered 3 July 1967)
1966-1970: Karl Popper[12] Conjectural Knowledge: My Solution of the Problem of Induction (delivered 7 June 1971)
1970-1974: Nicholas Kurti[13] Meditations on Heat and Cold (date delivered 25 October 1976)
1974-1979: D.W. Sciama[14] The Beginning and End of the Universe (delivered 7 June 1982)
1984-1987: W. Cochran[15]  ?
1993-1996: Peter Higgs[1]  ?
1997-2000: Roger Penrose[1]  ?
2001-2004: Michael Berry[1] Making Light of Mathematics (delivered 9 December 2002)
2005-2008: Stephen M. Barnett[16] Security, Insecurity, Paranoia and Quantum Mechanics (delivered 4 February 2008)

References
  1. "Royal Society of Edinburgh Research Awards". Archived from the original on 29 May 2008. Retrieved 13 March 2008.
  2. Whitehead, Alfred North (January 2004). The Principle of Relativity with Applications to Physical Science. ISBN 9780486438887. Retrieved 13 March 2008.
  3. Proceedings of the royal society of edinburgh, volume 60, 1939-1940, p.441
  4. "Cosmology: Methodological Debates in the 1930s and 1940s". Retrieved 13 March 2008.
  5. page 351 of Volume 6 of the Niels Bohr Collected Works (North-Holland Physics Publishing, 1985)
  6. Title: Obituary - Dingle, Herbert, Authors: Whitrow, G. J., Journal: ROYAL ASTRON. SOC. QUARTERLY JOURNAL V. 21, P. 333, 1980
  7. Nature - Page 511. Retrieved 10 April 2009.
  8. p. 130 of the Royal Society of Edinburgh, 1783-1983, Neil Campbell, 1983
  9. Year Book of the Royal Society of Edinburgh By Royal Society of Edinburgh Published by Royal Society of Edinburgh., 1983
  10. "Former Fellows of the Royal Society of Edinburgh. 1783-2002" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 4 October 2006. Retrieved 10 April 2009.
  11. Year Book of the Royal Society of Edinburgh - Page 53. 1990. 1990. Retrieved 10 April 2009.
  12. "lecture based on version appearing in Paul Arthur Schilpp, ed., The Philosophy of Karl Popper; revised lecture version published in Objective Knowledge, 1972". Archived from the original on 29 December 2008. Retrieved 17 September 2008.
  13. Year Book of the Royal Society of Edinburgh. Retrieved 6 April 2009.
  14. Year Book of the Royal Society of Edinburgh. 1983. Retrieved 6 April 2009.
  15. Year Book of the Royal Society of Edinburgh 1991 - P.23. Retrieved 11 April 2009.
  16. "Research newsletter of the Department of Physics University of Strathclyde November 2007". Archived from the original on 1 May 2009. Retrieved 6 April 2009.
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