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.
| Years: Recipient | Lecture Title |
|---|---|
| 1918-1922: Alfred North Whitehead | The Relatedness of Nature (delivered 5 June 1922) |
| 1922-1927: Joseph Larmor | The Grasp of Mind on Nature (delivered 4 July 1927) |
| 1927-1930: Niels Bohr | Philosophical Aspects of Atomic Theory (delivered 26 May 1930) |
| 1930-1933: Arnold Sommerfeld | Ways to the Knowledge of Nature (delivered 1 May 1933) |
| 1933-1938: P. A. M. Dirac | The Relation between Mathematics and Physics (delivered 6 February 1939) |
| 1940-1943: Edward Arthur Milne | Fundamental Concepts of Natural Philosophy |
| 1945-1948: Herbert Dingle | The Nature of Scientific Philosophy (delivered 5 July 1948) |
| 1955-1958: C.D. Broad | Some Remarks on Change, Continuity, and Discontinuity (delivered 11 November 1957) |
| 1958-1961: Herbert Butterfield | The Place of the Scientific Revolution in the History of Thought |
| 1960-1963: Hermann Bondi | ? |
| 1963-1966: William Lawrence Bragg | The Spirit of Science (delivered 3 July 1967) |
| 1966-1970: Karl Popper | Conjectural Knowledge: My Solution of the Problem of Induction (delivered 7 June 1971) |
| 1970-1974: Nicholas Kurti | Meditations on Heat and Cold (date delivered 25 October 1976) |
| 1974-1979: D.W. Sciama | The Beginning and End of the Universe (delivered 7 June 1982) |
| 1984-1987: W. Cochran | ? |
| 1993-1996: Peter Higgs | ? |
| 1997-2000: Roger Penrose | ? |
| 2001-2004: Michael Berry | Making Light of Mathematics Archived 25 September 2006 at the Wayback Machine (delivered 9 December 2002) |
| 2005-2008: Stephen M. Barnett | Security, Insecurity, Paranoia and Quantum Mechanics (delivered 4 February 2008) |
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