The Bernal Lecture 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

Wilkins Lecture

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...

 and Medawar Lecture

Medawar Lecture

The Medawar Lecture was an annual lecture on the philosophy of science organised by the Royal Society of London in memory of Sir Peter Medawar. It was last delivered in 2004 after which it was merged with the Wilkins Lecture and the Bernal Lecture to form the Wilkins-Bernal-Medawar Lecture. - List...

 to form the Wilkins-Bernal-Medawar Lecture

Wilkins-Bernal-Medawar Lecture

The Wilkins-Bernal-Medawar Lecture is a public lecture organised annually by the Royal Society of London. It was formed in 2005 by the merger of the Wilkins Lecture, the Bernal Lecture and the Medawar Lecture...

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List of lecturers

Year	Name	Lecture	Notes
1971

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|1974 || ||The new Atlantis revisited.||align=center| —
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|1977 || ||Scientific and social approaches for the solution of global problems.||align=center| —
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|1980 || ||Science, ideology and myth.||align=center| —
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|1983 || ||The collectivization of science.||align=center| —
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|1986 || ||The public understanding of science.||align=center| —
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|1989 || || Science and education.||align=center| —
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|1992 || ||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 || ||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 || ||The networking of academic and industrial research: the UK phenomenon. (Delivered in London and York.)||align=center| —
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|2001 || ||JD Bernal: his legacy to science and to society (Delivered in London.).||align=center| —
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|2004 || ||Are low-frequency environmental fields a health hazard?||align=center| —
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