Christmas Lecture
In 2010 the RSE teamed up with BBC Scotland to webcast its prestigious Annual Christmas Lecture live across the UK. This ground-breaking initiative allowed viewers to both see and hear Allan Little, the distinguished BBC World Affairs Correspondent, deliver his lecture live from Stranraer Academy on Friday 10th December.
Previous Lectures
| 2009 Lochaber High School Professor Paul Jowitt FRSE |
Facing up to Climate Change Read Lecture summary |
| 2008 Arbroath High School Professor Anne Glover, FRSE |
Science and Arbroath in the 21st Century Read Lecture summary |
| 2007 University of Edinburgh Johnny Ball |
Wobbling on the Shoulders of Giants Click here to read summary report |
| 2006 University of Stirling Heather Reid, BBC Broadcast Meteorologist |
Weather Forecasting In the 21st Century |
| 2005 Elgin Academy Professor Sue Black, OBE, FRSE |
Who Are You? |
| 2004 Pitlochry Festival Theatre Professor Ian Wilmut OBE FRS FRSE |
Why Clone? Cloning in Biology and Medicine. |
| 2003 Inverness Royal Academy Professor John Brown, FRSE, Astronomer Royal for Scotland |
Black Holes and White Rabbits |
| 2002 Lochaber High School, Fort William Heather Reid, BBC Broadcast Meteorologist |
Weather Forecasting for the 21st Century |
| 2001 Dumfries Academy Dr Bonnie Dunbar, NASA |
Exploring Space Into the New Millennium |
| 2000 Perth High School Dr Steve Jones, University College, London |
Nature, Nurture or Neither - what genetics tells us about ourselves followed by a public lecture, entitled Almost Like a Whale: Is Man Just Another Animal? |
| 1999 Kirkwall Professor Aubrey Manning, FRSE |
The Animals and Ourselves |
| 1998 Lochaber High School, Fort William Mr John Schollar, National Centre for Biotechnology Education, Reading |
DNA: Chemical of the Century, Molecule of the Millennium |
| 1997 Douglas-Ewart High School, Newton Stewart Dr Susan Hartley, Institute of Terrestrial Ecology, Banchory |
300 million years of war: the arms race between plants and the animals that try to eat them |
| 1996 North Atlantic Fisheries College, Shetland Professor F Close, Head of Theoretical Physics, Rutherford Appleton Laboratories, Didcot, Oxfordshire |
The Cosmic Onion |
| 1995 University of Paisley Craigie Campus, Ayr Professor Trevor Norton, FRSE, Director, Marine Laboratory, Port Erin, Isle of Man |
Biologists Underwater |
| 1994 Scottish College of Textiles, Galashiels Dr Oliver Musgrave, Department of Chemistry, University of Aberdeen |
Flashes and Bangs |
| 1993 Nicolson Institute, Stornoway and Sgoil Lionacleit, Benbecula Professor M B Wilkins, Department of Botany, University of Glasgow |
Are Plants Intelligent? |
| 1992 St Joseph's College, Dumfries and Scottish Natural Heritage, Battleby, Perth Professor C Blakemore, University Laboratory of Physiology, University of Oxford |
How the Brain Works |
| 1991 The Highland Theatre, Oban Professor D J Cole-Hamilton, Irvine Professor of Chemistry, University of St Andrews |
How Chemists help to Preserve Life on Earth |
| 1990 Carnegie Hall, Dunfermline Professor D J Wallace, Tait Professor of Mathematical Physics, University of Edinburgh |
Communicating with Computers |
| 1989 Culloden High School, Inverness and Wallace High School, Stirling Dr P G Debenham, Director of Scientific Services, Cellmark Diagnostics, Abingdon, Oxfordshire (a subsidiary of Imperial Chemical Industries plc), |
Genetic Fingerprinting |
| 1988 Universities of Glasgow and St Andrews Professor M S Longair, Astronomer Royal for Scotland and Regius Professor of Astronomy in the University of Edinburgh |
Build your own Universe |
| 1987 Universities of Aberdeen and Edinburgh Dr G R Coope, Department of Geography, University of Birmingham |
The Natural History of the Ice-age |
| 1986 University of Edinburgh Professor Dr W Burger, Institut fur Theoretische Mechanik, Universitat Karlsruhe, West Germany |
An Entertaining Lecture on Physical Toys |
| 1985 Universities of Dundee and Edinburgh Professor R H T Edwards, Head of University Department of Medicine, Royal Liverpool Hospital |
Molecules, Muscles and Movement in Man |
| 1984 Universities of Glasgow and Aberdeen Professor R V Jones, CB, CBE, FRS, Formerly Department of Natural Philosophy, University of Aberdeen |
Some Principles Common to Physics, Engineering and Life in General |
| 1983 Universities of Glasgow and Aberdeen Dr G Farrow, Department of Geology, University of Glasgow |
Reconstructing Ancient Environments |
| 1982 Universities of Strathclyde and Edinburgh Professor G G Roberts, Department of Applied Physics and Electronics, University of Durham |
Microelectronics or Transistors from Mothballs? |
| 1981 Universities of Strathclyde and Edinburgh Dr A J Hale, Vice-President, European Pre-Clinical Research and Development, G D Searle & Co Ltd, High Wycombe |
Biotechnology: Old and New |
| 1980 Universities of Strathclyde and Edinburgh Professor J I G Cadogan, FRS, Chief Scientist, British Petroleum Company Limited, Sunbury-on-Thames |
Organic Chemistry Today |
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