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Tercentenary Lectures

The Tercentenary Lectures were a series of lectures held during the 300th anniversary year of the Royal Society, London in 1960.

List of lecturers

Name Lecture Notes
C. D. Darlington The chromosomes and the theory of heredity.
Arnold Alexander Hall Trends in aeronautical science and engineering.
Christopher Hinton The evolution of nuclear power plant design.
Alan Lloyd Hodgkin The physics and chemistry of nervous conduction.
Dorothy Hodgkin Molecules in crystals.
Bernard Lovell The investigation of the Universe by radio astronomy.
Peter Medawar The problems of transplantation.
C. F. Powell The study of nuclear interactions at very great energies.
Alexander R. Todd New horizons in organic chemistry.
Vincent Wigglesworth The metamorphosis of insects.

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