| Years: Recipient |
Lecture Title |
| 1918-1922: Alfred North Whitehead[2] |
The Relatedness of Nature (delivered 5 June 1922) |
| 1922-1927: Joseph Larmor[3] |
The Grasp of Mind on Nature (delivered 4 July 1927) |
| 1927-1930: Niels Bohr[4][5] |
Philosophical Aspects of Atomic Theory (delivered 26 May 1930) |
| 1930-1933: Arnold Sommerfeld[3] |
Ways to the Knowledge of Nature (delivered 1 May 1933) |
| 1933-1938: P. A. M. Dirac[3][4] |
The Relation between Mathematics and Physics (delivered 6 February 1939) |
| 1940-1943: Edward Arthur Milne[4] |
Fundamental Concepts of Natural Philosophy |
| 1945-1948: Herbert Dingle[6] |
The Nature of Scientific Philosophy (delivered 5 July 1948) |
| 1955-1958: C.D. Broad[7] |
Some Remarks on Change, Continuity, and Discontinuity (delivered 11 November 1957) |
| 1958-1961: Herbert Butterfield[8] |
The Place of the Scientific Revolution in the History of Thought |
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| 1960-1963: Hermann Bondi[9] |
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| 1963-1966: William Lawrence Bragg[10] |
The Spirit of Science [11] (delivered 3 July 1967) |
| 1966-1970: Karl Popper[12] |
Conjectural Knowledge: My Solution of the Problem of Induction (delivered 7 June 1971) |
| 1970-1974: Nicholas Kurti[13] |
Meditations on Heat and Cold (date delivered 25 October 1976) |
| 1974-1979: D.W. Sciama[14] |
The Beginning and End of the Universe (delivered 7 June 1982) |
| 1984-1987: W. Cochran[15] |
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| 1993-1996: Peter Higgs[1] |
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| 1997-2000: Roger Penrose[1] |
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| 2001-2004: Michael Berry[1] |
Making Light of Mathematics Archived 25 September 2006 at the Wayback Machine (delivered 9 December 2002) |
| 2005-2008: Stephen M. Barnett[16] |
Security, Insecurity, Paranoia and Quantum Mechanics (delivered 4 February 2008) |