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Wilkins Lecture

{{Short description|Annual lecture}}

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The Wilkins Lecture was a lecture organised by the Royal Society of London on the subject of the history of science and named after John Wilkins, the first Secretary of the Society. The last Wilkins lecture was delivered in 2003, after which it was merged with the Bernal Lecture and the 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 recipients

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1948{{sortname|John David Griffith|Davies
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|1949|| {{sortname|Edward Neville da Costa|Andrade|}}|| Robert Hooke.||align=center| —

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|1950|| {{sortname|Francis Joseph|Cole|}}|| The history of micro-dissection.||align=center| —

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|1952|| {{sortname|Harold Brewer|Hartley|}}|| Sir Humphry Davy, Bt, P.R.S.||align=center| —

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|1955|| {{sortname|Basil|Schonland|}}|| Benjamin Franklin, natural philosopher.||align=center| —

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|1958|| {{sortname|Joseph|Needham|}}|| The missing link in horological history: a Chinese contribution.||align=center| —

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|1961|| {{sortname|Gavin Rylands de|Beer|Gavin de Beer}}|| The origins of Darwins ideas on evolution and natural selection.||align=center| —

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|1964|| {{sortname|Giorgio de|Santillana|}}|| Galileo today.||align=center| —

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|1967|| {{sortname|Geoffrey Langdon|Keynes|Geoffrey Keynes}}|| Bacon, Harvey, and the originators of the Royal Society.||align=center| —

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|1970|| {{sortname|Reginald Victor|Jones|}}|| The plain story of James Watt.||align=center| —

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|1973|| {{sortname|Alfred Rupert|Hall|}}|| Newton and his editors.||align=center| —

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|1976|| {{sortname|Margaret|Gowing|}}|| Science, technology and education: England in 1870.||align=center| —

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|1979|| {{sortname|Gweneth|Whitteridge|}}|| On the local movement of animals.||align=center| —

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|1982|| {{sortname|Sydney|Smith|dab=zoologist}}|| One hundred years after Charles Darwin.||align=center| —

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|1985|| {{sortname|William Thomas|Stearn|}}|| John Wilkins, John Ray and Carl Linnaeus.||align=center| —

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|1988|| {{sortname|David S.|Landes|}}|| Brain and hand in the development of technology of time-measurement.||align=center| —

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|1991|| {{sortname|Stephen Finney|Mason|}}|| Bishop John Wilkins FRS.||align=center| —

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|1994|| {{sortname|Allan|Chapman|Allan Chapman (historian)}}|| Edmond Halley as a historian of science.||align=center| —

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|1997|| {{sortname|Desmond George|King-Hele|}}|| Erasmus Darwin, the Lunatiks and evolution.||align=center| —

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|2000|| {{sortname|Roy|Porter|}}|| Reflections on scientific and medical futurology since the time of John Wilkins.||align=center| —

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|2003|| {{sortname|Lisa|Jardine|}}|| Dr Wilkins's boy wonders.||align=center| —

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References

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  • {{cite web|url=http://royalsociety.org/page.asp?tip=1&id=1798|title=The Wilkins Lecture (1947)|accessdate=2009-03-20}}

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