Bernal Lecture
{{Short description|Annual lecture}}
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The Bernal Lecture{{cite web|url=https://royalsociety.org/awards/bernal-lecture/|title=The Bernal Lecture (1969)|accessdate=9 August 2014}} was an annual lecture on the social function of science organised by the Royal Society of London and endowed by Professor John Desmond Bernal. It was last delivered in 2004, after which it was merged with the Wilkins Lecture and Medawar Lecture to form the Wilkins-Bernal-Medawar Lecture.{{cite web| url=http://royalsociety.org/Wilkins-Bernal-Medawar-Lecture/| title = The 2010 Wilkins-Bernal-Medawar Lecture|publisher=The Royal Society|accessdate = 14 August 2010}}
List of lecturers
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| 1971 | {{sortname|Eric|Ashby |
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|1974 || {{sortname|Conrad Hal|Waddington|}} ||The new Atlantis revisited.||align=center| —
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|1977 || {{sortname|Piotr Leonidovich|Kapitza|}} ||Scientific and social approaches for the solution of global problems.||align=center| —
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|1980 || {{sortname|John Maynard|Smith|}} ||Science, ideology and myth.||align=center| —
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|1983 || {{sortname|John|Ziman|}} ||The collectivization of science.||align=center| —
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|1986 || {{sortname|Walter|Bodmer|}} ||The public understanding of science.||align=center| —
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|1989 || {{sortname|Walter|Perry|}} || Science and education.||align=center| —
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|1992 || {{sortname|Alec|Jeffreys|}} ||Molecular sleuthing: the story of DNA fingerprinting. (Sci. publ. Affairs Autumn 1993, 24.) (Delivered in 1993 in London and Keele.)||align=center| —
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|1995 || {{sortname|William|Stewart|William Stewart (scientist)}} ||UK Science and Technology policy: a perspective from the past, a vision for the future. (Sci. publ. Affairs, Spring 1996.) (Delivered in London and Dundee.)||align=center| —
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|1998 || {{sortname|Tom|Blundell|}} ||The networking of academic and industrial research: the UK phenomenon. (Delivered in London and York.)||align=center| —
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|2001 || {{sortname|Alan Lindsay|Mackay|}} ||JD Bernal: his legacy to science and to society (Delivered in London.).||align=center| —
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|2004 || {{sortname|Michael Joseph|Crumpton|}} ||Are low-frequency environmental fields a health hazard?||align=center| —
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