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Rutherford Memorial Lecture (Royal Society)

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The Rutherford Memorial Lecture is an international lecture of the Royal Society created under the Rutherford Memorial Scheme in 1952. It is held at universities in various countries in the Commonwealth, with a stipulation that at least one of every three lectures must be held in New Zealand.{{cite web | url=https://royalsociety.org/grants-schemes-awards/awards/rutherford-memorial-lecture/ | title=Rutherford Memorial Lecture | publisher=Royal Society | accessdate=March 2, 2019}}

List of lecturers

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1952{{sortname|John|Cockcroft
}|| New Zealand||||align=center|{{cite journal|jstor = 99142|title =The Rutherford Memorial lecture|journal =Proceedings of the Royal Society of London. Series A, Mathematical and Physical Sciences| volume=217|issue =1128|pages=1–8|last1 =Cockcroft|first1 =John|year =1953|doi =10.1098/rspa.1953.0042|bibcode =1953RSPSA.217....1C|s2cid =178338683}}

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|1953||{{sortname|James|Chadwick}}||Canada|||| align=center|{{cite journal|jstor = 99545|title =The Rutherford Memorial lecture|journal =Proceedings of the Royal Society of London. Series A, Mathematical and Physical Sciences| volume=224|issue =1159|pages=435–447|last1 =Chadwick|first1 =James|year =1954|doi =10.1098/rspa.1954.0171|s2cid =97490251}}

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|1954||{{sortname|Ernest|Marsden}}||South Africa||Rutherford, his Life and Work 1871-1937||align= center|{{cite journal|jstor= 99567|title= The Rutherford Memorial lecture|journal= Proceedings of the Royal Society of London. Series A, Mathematical and Physical Sciences| volume=226|issue= 1166|pages=283–305|last1= Marsden|first1= E.|year= 1954}}

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|1955||{{sortname|Marcus Laurence Elwin|Oliphant|Marcus Oliphant}}||India and Pakistan||Science and mankind|| align=center| -

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|1956||{{sortname|Charles Galton|Darwin|}}||New Zealand||The Discovery of atomic number||align=center| {{cite journal|jstor= 99959|title= The Rutherford Memorial lecture|journal= Proceedings of the Royal Society of London. Series A, Mathematical and Physical Sciences| volume=236|issue= 1206|pages=285–296|last1= Darwin|first1= Charles|year= 1956}}

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|1957||{{sortname|Edward Neville da Costa|Andrade}}||Australia||The Birth of the nuclear atom||align=center|{{cite journal|jstor= 100261|title= The Rutherford Memorial lecture|journal= Proceedings of the Royal Society of London. Series A, Mathematical and Physical Sciences| volume=244|issue= 1239|pages=437–455|last1= Andrade|first1= E. N. da C.|year= 1958|doi= 10.1098/rspa.1958.0053|s2cid= 19795596}}

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|1958||{{sortname|Patrick Maynard Stuart|Blackett}}||Canada|||| align=center| {{cite journal|jstor= 100874|title= The Rutherford Memorial lecture|journal= Proceedings of the Royal Society of London. Series A, Mathematical and Physical Sciences| volume=251|issue= 1266|pages=293–305|last1= Blackett|first1= P. M. S.|year= 1959|doi= 10.1098/rspa.1959.0110|s2cid= 191561634}}

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|1960||{{sortname|William Lawrence|Bragg}}||New Zealand||The Development of X-ray analysis||align=center| {{cite journal|jstor= 2414072|title= The Rutherford Memorial lecture|journal= Proceedings of the Royal Society of London. Series A, Mathematical and Physical Sciences| volume=262|issue= 1309|pages=145–158|last1= Bragg|first1= Lawrence|year= 1961}}

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|1962||{{sortname|Nevill Francis|Mott}}||Nigeria, Rhodesia and Nyasaland, Uganda||Atomic physics and the strength of metals||align=center| {{cite journal|jstor= 2414622|title= The Rutherford Memorial lecture|journal= Proceedings of the Royal Society of London. Series A, Mathematical and Physical Sciences| volume=275|issue= 1361|pages=149–160|last1= Mott|first1= Nevill|year= 1963}}

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|1963||{{sortname|Thomas Edward |Allibone|Thomas Allibone}}||India and Pakistan|||| align=center| -

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|1964||{{sortname|George Paget|Thomson}}||New Zealand||Rutherford in nineteenth-century Cambridge||align=center| {{cite journal|jstor= 2415227|title= The Rutherford Memorial lecture|journal= Proceedings of the Royal Society of London. Series A, Mathematical and Physical Sciences| volume=283|issue= 1395|pages=481–490|last1= Thomson|first1= George|year= 1965}}

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|1965||{{sortname|Philip Ivor|Dee}}||Canada||||align = center|{{cite journal|jstor= 2415973|title= The Rutherford Memorial lecture|journal= Proceedings of the Royal Society of London. Series A, Mathematical and Physical Sciences| volume=298|issue= 1453|pages=103–122|last1= Dee|first1= P. I.|year= 1967|doi= 10.1098/rspa.1967.0094|s2cid= 162557060}}

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|1966||{{sortname|John Ashworth|Ratcliffe}}||Australia||Radio and the Cavendish Laboratory||align = center| {{cite web |url = http://janus.lib.cam.ac.uk/db/node.xsp?id=EAD%2FGBR%2F0014%2FRACL%203%2F17;sib0=1| title = The Papers of Jack Radtcliffe|publisher = Janus|accessdate = 2012-01-07}}

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|1967||{{sortname|Harrie Stewart|Massey|Harrie Massey}}||New Zealand||||align=center| -

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|1968||{{sortname|John Michael|Ziman|John Ziman}}||India and Pakistan||Some problems of the growth and spread of science in developing countries.||align = center| {{cite journal|jstor= 75752|title= The Rutherford Memorial lecture|journal= Proceedings of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological Sciences| volume=174|issue= 1034|pages=69–89|last1= Ziman|first1= J. M.|year= 1969}}

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|1969||{{sortname|Piotr Leonidovich| Kapitza}}|| Canada||||align=center|-

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|1970||{{sortname|Stanley Keith |Runcorn}}|| Kenya, Tanzania and Uganda||||align=center| -

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|1971||{{sortname|Peter Howard|Fowler|Peter Fowler (physicist)}}||New Zealand||Evolution of the elements||align=center| {{cite journal|jstor= 78154|title= The Rutherford Memorial lecture|journal= Proceedings of the Royal Society of London. Series A, Mathematical and Physical Sciences| volume=329|issue= 1576|pages=1–16|last1= Fowler|first1= P. H.|year= 1972|doi= 10.1098/rspa.1972.0098|s2cid= 122694392}}

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|1975||{{sortname|Philip Burton|Moon}}||Australia||Yarns and Spinners:Recollections of Rutherford and Applications of Swift Rotation|| align=center |{{cite journal | url=http://rspa.royalsocietypublishing.org/content/360/1702/303.full.pdf|title= Rutherford Memorial Lecture 1975|journal = Proceedings of the Royal Society|date= 4 April 1978|doi= 10.1098/rspa.1978.0070|s2cid= 109274378|accessdate = 11 November 2010}}

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|1977||{{sortname|Norman|Feather}}||Canada||Some episodes of the α-particle story|| align = center|{{cite journal|jstor= 79439|title= The Rutherford Memorial lecture|journal= Proceedings of the Royal Society of London. Series A, Mathematical and Physical Sciences| volume=357|issue= 1689|pages=117–129|last1= Feather|first1= N.|year= 1977|doi= 10.1098/rspa.1977.0158|s2cid= 162621174}}

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|1979 ||{{sortname|Eric Henry Stoneley|Burhop|Eric Burhop}}||New Zealand||The New Physics||align=center| {{cite journal|jstor= 2397068|title= The Rutherford Memorial lecture|journal= Proceedings of the Royal Society of London. Series A, Mathematical and Physical Sciences| volume=380|issue= 1778|pages=1–28|last1= Burhop|first1= E. H. S.|year= 1982|doi= 10.1098/rspa.1982.0027|s2cid= 123023042}}

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|1980||{{sortname|David|Shoenberg}}||India and Sri Lanka||Magnetic Oscillations in metals|| align=center|{{cite journal|url=http://www.ph.utexas.edu/~macdgrp/journal/shoenberg_memorial.pdf|title=The Rutherford memorial lecture 1980|journal=Proceedings of the Royal Society|accessdate=11 November 2010|url-status=dead|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20110726072738/http://www.ph.utexas.edu/~macdgrp/journal/shoenberg_memorial.pdf|archivedate=26 July 2011}}

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|1981||{{sortname|Stephen Erwin|Moorbath}}||Zimbabwe|||| align=center|-

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|1982||{{sortname|James Dwyer|McGee}}||New Zealand||Rutherford, Radio and Opto-Electronics||align=center| {{cite journal | url=http://rspa.royalsocietypublishing.org/content/393/1805/193.abstract|title= The Rutherford Memorial Lecture|journal = Proceedings of the Royal Society|date= 8 June 1984|volume= 393|issue= 1805|pages= 193–214|doi= 10.1098/rspa.1984.0054|accessdate= 11 November 2010|last1= McGee|first1= James Dwyer|s2cid= 110447573}}

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|1983||{{sortname|William Ernest|Burcham}}||Canada||Rutherford and beta decay|| align=center|{{cite journal|jstor= 2397712|title= The Rutherford Memorial lecture|journal= Proceedings of the Royal Society of London. Series A, Mathematical and Physical Sciences| volume=389|issue= 1797|pages=215–239|last1= Burcham|first1= W. E.|year= 1983|doi= 10.1098/rspa.1983.0106|s2cid= 122387281}}

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|1984||{{sortname|Alfred Charles Bernard|Lovell}}||Australia|| || align = center|-

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|1985||{{sortname|Roger|Elliott|Roger Elliott (physicist)}}||New Zealand|| ||align=center| -

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|1986||{{sortname|Rudolf Ernst|Peierls}}||India|| || align = center|-

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|1987||{{sortname|Maurice|Goldhaber}}||Canada|| || align=center|-

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|1988||{{sortname|Dan Peter|McKenzie|Dan McKenzie (geophysicist)}}||New Zealand|| ||align=center| -

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|1989||{{sortname|Samuel|Devons}}||Australia|| ||align=center|-

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|1990||{{sortname|Basil John|Mason}}||Canada|| ||align=center|-

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|1991||{{sortname|Denys Haigh|Wilkinson}}||New Zealand|| ||align=center| -

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|1992||{{sortname|Lewis Edward John|Roberts}}||India|| ||align=center|-

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|1993||{{sortname|David John|Weatherall}}||South-east Asia|| ||align=center|-

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|1995||{{sortname|William|Hamilton|W.D.Hamilton}}||New Zealand|| ||align=center| -

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|1996||{{sortname|John Bertrand|Gurdon}}||Australia|| || align=center|-

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|1997||{{sortname|John Meurig|Thomas}}||New Zealand|| ||align=center| -

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|1999||{{sortname|Robert Brian|Heap}}||South Africa|| || align=center|-

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|2000||{{sortname|Michael Joseph|Kelly|Michael Kelly (physicist)}}||New Zealand|| ||align=center| -

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|2003||{{sortname|Timothy J.|Pedley}}||New Zealand|| ||align=center| -

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|2005||{{sortname|Alec|Jeffreys}}||Singapore|| ||align=center|-

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|2006||{{sortname|Paul|Nurse}}||New Zealand|| ||align=center| -

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|2007||{{sortname|Patrick|Bateson}}||Australia|| ||align=center|-

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|2008||{{sortname|Lorna|Casselton}}||South Africa|| ||align=center|-

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|2010||{{sortname|Lord Rees of|Ludlow}}||New Zealand||Maths, maps and the human heart||align=center|

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|2013||{{sortname|Sir John|Sulston|John Sulston}}||New Zealand||People and the planet – how can we all live and flourish on a finite Earth?||align=center| {{cite web | url=http://www.aucklandmuseum.com/visit/whats-on/members/past-events-lectures/people-and-the-planet-rutherford-memorial-lecture | title=What's on - People and the planet - how can we all live and flourish on a finite Earth | publisher=Auckland War Memorial Museum | date=October 8, 2013 | accessdate=March 2, 2019}}

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|2017||{{sortname|Georgina|Mace}}||New Zealand||How should we value nature in a human-dominated world?||align=center|-

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|2018||{{sortname|Eric|Wolff}}||Canada||Polar change – a perspective from the ice core palaeoclimate record’||align=center|-

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|2019||{{sortname|Ottoline|Leyser}}||New Zealand||Thinking like a vegetable: how plants decide what to do||align=center|-

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References

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  • [https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1dsunM9ukGLgaW3HdG9cvJ_QKd7pWjGI0qi_fCb1ROD4/pubhtml?gid=626654470&single=true Royal Society Rutherford Lectures] (to 2010)
  • [https://web.archive.org/web/20110813073409/http://www.royalsociety.org.nz/events/annual/rutherford-memorial-lecturer/ Rutherford Memorial lecturers]

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