英国皇家科学院圣诞讲座

圣诞讲座，或称耶诞讲座（英语：Royal Institution Christmas Lectures）是指自1825年以来由英国皇家科学院（英语：Royal Institution）在伦敦所办的系列讲座，向大众介绍科学新知为名，而以易懂且富娱乐性为其特色，如化学家法拉第的最著名的通俗科学演讲蜡烛系列讲座^[1]。

法拉第1856年的讲座

历年讲座

没有电视直播的年代：1825到1965

年份	演讲者	主题
1825	John Millington	自然哲学
1826	John Wallis[2]	解剖学
1827	麦可·法拉第	化学
1828	J. Wood	建筑学
1829	麦可·法拉第	电学
1830	Thomas Webster	地质学
1831	James Rennie	动物学
1832	麦可·法拉第	化学
1833	约翰·林德利	植物学
1834	威廉·托马斯·布兰德	Chemistry
1835	麦可·法拉第	Electricity
1836	威廉·托马斯·布兰德	Chemistry of the Gases
1837	麦可·法拉第	Chemistry
1838	John Wallis[2]	Astronomy
1839	威廉·托马斯·布兰德	The Chemistry of the Atmosphere and the Ocean
1840	约翰·弗雷德里克·丹尼尔	The First Principles of Franklinic Electricity
1841	麦可·法拉第	The Rudiments of Chemistry
1842	威廉·托马斯·布兰德	The Chemistry of the Non-Metallic Elements
1843	麦可·法拉第	First Principles of Electricity
1844	威廉·托马斯·布兰德	The Chemistry of the Gases
1845	麦可·法拉第	The Rudiments of Chemistry
1846	John Wallis[2]	The Rudiments of Astronomy
1847	威廉·托马斯·布兰德	The Elements of Organic Chemistry
1848	麦可·法拉第	The Chemical History of a Candle
1849	Robert Walker	The Properties of Matter and the Laws of Motion
1850	威廉·托马斯·布兰德	The Chemistry of Coal
1851	麦可·法拉第	Attractive Forces
1852		Chemistry
1853		Voltaic Electricity
1854		The Chemistry of Combustion
1855		The Distinctive Properties of the Common Metals
1856		Attractive Forces
1857		Static Electricity
1858		The Metallic Properties
1859		The Various Forces of Matter and their Relations to Each Other
1860		The Chemical History of a Candle
1861	约翰·丁达尔	Light
1862	爱德华·弗兰克兰	Air and Water
1863	约翰·丁达尔	Electricity at Rest and Electricity in Motion
1864	爱德华·弗兰克兰	The Chemistry of a Coal
1865	约翰·丁达尔	Sound
1866	爱德华·弗兰克兰	The Chemistry of Gases
1867	约翰·丁达尔	Heat and Cold
1868	威廉·奥德林	The Chemical Changes of Carbon
1869	约翰·丁达尔	Light
1870	威廉·奥德林	Burning and Unburning
1871	约翰·丁达尔	Ice, Water, Vapour and Air
1872	威廉·奥德林	Air and Gas
1873	约翰·丁达尔	The Motion and Sensation of Sound
1874	约翰·贺尔·格莱斯顿	The Voltaic Battery
1875	约翰·丁达尔	Experimental Electricity
1876	约翰·贺尔·格莱斯顿	The Chemistry of Fire
1877	约翰·丁达尔	Heat, Visible and Invisible
1878	詹姆斯·杜瓦	A Soap Bubble
1879	约翰·丁达尔	Water and Air
1880	詹姆斯·杜瓦	Atoms
1881	罗伯特·斯德威尔·鲍尔	The Sun, the Moon and the Planets
1882	约翰·丁达尔	Light and the Eye
1883	詹姆斯·杜瓦	Alchemy in Relation to Modern Science
1884	约翰·丁达尔	The Sources of Electricity
1885	詹姆斯·杜瓦	The Story of a Meteorite
1886		The Chemistry of Light and Photography
1887	罗伯特·斯德威尔·鲍尔	Astronomy
1888	詹姆斯·杜瓦	Clouds and Cloudland
1889	Arthur Rücker	Electricity
1890	詹姆斯·杜瓦	霜与火
1891	约翰·格雷·麦肯特列克	Life in Motion; or the Animal Machine
1892	罗伯特·斯德威尔·鲍尔	Astronomy
1893	詹姆斯·杜瓦	空气：气体和液体
1894	约翰·弗莱明	电流作的功
1895	约翰·格雷·麦肯特列克	Sound, Hearing and Speech
1896	Sylvanus Phillips Thompson	Light, Visible and Invisible
1897	Oliver Lodge	The Principles of the Electric Telegraph
1898	罗伯特·斯德威尔·鲍尔	Astronomy
1899	查理士·凡而侬·波伊斯	运动和静止状态下的流体
1900	罗伯特·斯德威尔·鲍尔	Great Chapters from the Book of Nature
1901	约翰·弗莱明	水、空气和以太的波浪和涟漪
1902	Henry Selby Hele-Shaw	Locomotion : On the Earth, Through the Water, in the Air
1903	E·雷·兰克斯特	Extinct Animals
1904	Henry Cunynghame	Ancient and Modern Methods of Measuring Time
1905	赫伯特·霍尔·特纳	Astronomy
1906	威廉·达德尔	Signalling to a Distance
1907	戴维·吉尔	新旧天文学
1908	威廉·斯特林	The Wheel of Life
1909	威廉·达德尔	Modern Electricity
1910	Sylvanus Phillips Thompson	Sound: Musical and Non-Musical
1911	Peter Chalmers Mitchell	The Childhood of Animals
1912	詹姆斯·杜瓦	最后一次圣诞讲座
1913	赫伯特·霍尔·特纳	A Voyage in Space
1914	查理士·凡而侬·波伊斯	住宅中的科学
1915	赫伯特·霍尔·特纳	Wireless Messages from the Stars
1916	阿瑟·基思	The Human Machine Which All Must Work
1917	约翰·弗莱明	我们有用的仆人：磁和电
1918	达西·汤普森	The Fish of the Sea
1919	威廉·亨利·布拉格	声音的世界
1920	John Arthur Thomson	The Haunts of Life
1921	约翰·弗莱明	电波与无线电话
1922	赫伯特·霍尔·特纳	Six Steps Up the Ladder to the Stars
1923	威廉·亨利·布拉格	关于事物的本质
1924	Francis Balfour-Browne	Concerning the Habits of Insects
1925	威廉·亨利·布拉格	老手艺与新知识
1926	阿奇博尔德·希尔	神经和肌肉：我们的感觉和运动
1927	爱德华·安德拉德	Engines
1928	Alexander Wood	Sound Waves and their Uses
1929	Stephen Glanville	How Things Were Done in Ancient Egypt
1930	Arthur Mannering Tyndall	The Electric Spark
1931	威廉·亨利·布拉格	光的宇宙
1932	Alexander Oliver Rankine	The Round of the Waters
1933	詹姆士·金斯	穿越时空
1934	威廉·劳伦斯·布拉格	电
1935	Charles Edward Kenneth Mees	Photography
1936	杰弗里·泰勒	轮船
1937	朱利安·赫胥黎	珍稀野生动物的消失
1938	James Kendall	Young Chemists and Great Discoveries
1939–1942	因第二次世界大战爆发而暂停
1943	爱德华·安德拉德	Vibrations and Waves
1944	Harold Spencer Jones	Astronomy in our Daily Life
1945	劳勃·华生-瓦特	无线电报
1946	Hamilton Hartridge	Colours and How We See Them
1947	埃里克·凯特利·里德尔	Chemical Reactions: How They Work
1948	弗雷德里克·巴特莱特	工作和娱乐的大脑
1949	Percy Dunsheath	The Electric Current
1950	爱德华·安德拉德	Waves and Vibrations
1951	詹姆斯·格雷	How Animals Move
1952	F. Sherwood Taylor	How Science Has Grown
1953	John Ashworth Ratcliffe	The Uses of Radio Waves
1954	弗兰克·惠特尔	石油的故事
1955	Harry W. Melville	Big Molecules
1956	Harry Baines	Photography
1957	朱利安·赫胥黎和James Fisher	Birds
1958	John Ashworth Ratcliffe, James M. Stagg, Robert L. F. Boyd, Graham Sutton, George E. R. Deacon, Gordon de Quetteville Robin	国际地球物理年
1959	Thomas Allibone	The Release and Use of Atomic Energy
1960	Vernon Ellis Cosslett	Seeing the Very Small
1961	威廉·劳伦斯·布拉格	Electricity
1962	R. E. D. (Richard Evelyn Donohue) Bishop	Vibration
1963	Ronald King	Energy
1964	德斯蒙德·莫利斯	Animal Behaviour
1965	Bernard Lovell, Francis Graham-Smith, 马丁·赖尔、安东尼·休伊什	Exploration of the Universe

电视直播的年代：1966至今

年份	演讲者	主题	分节标题	电视台
1966	埃里克·莱思韦特 Eric Laithwaite	The Engineer in Wonderland[3] 仙境中的工程师	1. The White Rabbit 2. Only the Grin was Left 3. The Caucus Race 4. Curiouser and Curiouser 5. If only I were the right size to do it 6. It's the Oldest Rule in the Book	BBC Two
1967	理查德·L·格里高利 Richard Langton Gregory	The Intelligent Eye[4] 聪明的眼睛	1. Ancient Eyes and Simple Brains 2. Learning to See Things 3. Playing with Illusions 4. How Illusions Play Games with Us 5. Human Eyes in Space 6. The Future-Machines that See?
1968	菲利普·莫里森 Philip Morrison	Gulliver's Laws: The Physics of Large and Small[5] 格列佛定律：关于大和小的物理学	1. The World of Captain Gulliver 2. Meat and Drink Sufficient... 3. A Prodigious Leap? 4. Lilliput and Brobdingnag since the Industrial Revolution 5. Dwarf and Giant Numbers 6. Beyond the Map
1969	乔治·波特 George Porter	Time Machines[6] 时间机器	1. In the Beginning... 2. Clockwork Harmony 3. The Tick of the Atom 4. Big Time, Little Time 5. Faster, Faster 6. To the Ends of Time
1970	约翰·R·内皮尔 John Napier	Monkeys Without Tails: A Giraffe's Eye-view of Man[7] 没有尾巴的猴子：长颈鹿眼中的人类	1. Man has a very short neck and no tail 2. Man comes in several different sizes and shapes 3. Fancy having to climb trees in order to eat 4. Man chooses a sensible place to live at last 5. Why choose to walk on two legs when it is much safer on four? 6. What's the idea of shooting at us?
1971	查尔斯·A·泰勒 Charles Taylor	Sounds of Music: The Science of Tones and Tune[8] 音乐之声：音调和曲调的科学	1. Making and Measuring the Waves 2. From Small Beginnings 3. Growing and Changing 4. Craftsmanship and Technology 5. On the Way to the Ear 6. The End of the Journey
1972	Geoffrey G. Gouriet	Ripples in the Ether: The Science of Radio Communication[9]	1. How It All Began 2. Getting Rid of the Wires 3. The Sound of Broadcasting 4. Pictures With and Without Wires 5. But Electrons aren't Coloured! 6. Vision of the Future
1973	戴维·阿滕伯勒 David Attenborough	The Language of Animals 动物的语言	1. Beware! 2. Be Mine 3. Parents and Children 4. Simple Signs and Complicated Communications 5. Foreign Languages 6. Animal Language, Human Language
1974	埃里克·莱思韦特 Eric Laithwaite	The Engineer Through the Looking Glass	1. Looking Glass House 2. Tweedledum and Tweedledee 3. Jam Yesterday, Jam Tomorrow 4. The Jabberwock 5. The Time has come the Walrus said 6. It's my own Invention
1975	Heinz Wolff	Signals from the Interior	1. You as an engine 2. Pumps pipes and flows 3. Spikes and waves 4. Probes, sondes and sounds 5. Looking through your skin 6. Signals from the mind
1976	乔治·波特 George Porter	The Natural History of a Sunbeam[10]	1. First Light 2. Light and Life 3. A Leaf from Nature 4. Candles from the Sun 5. Making Light Work 6. Survival Under the Sun
1977	卡尔·萨根 Carl Sagan	The Planets	1. The Earth as a Planet 2. The Outer Solar System and Life 3. The History of Mars 4. Mars before Viking 5. Mars after Viking 6. Planetary Systems Beyond Our Sun
1978	埃里克·克里斯托弗·齐曼 Erik Christopher Zeeman	Mathematics into Pictures	1. Linking and Knotting 2. Numbers and Geometry 3. Infinity and Perspective 4. Games and Evolution 5. Waves and Music 6. Catastrophe and Psychology
1979	Eric M. Rogers	Atoms for Engineering Minds: A Circus of Experiments[11]	1. Getting to Know Atoms 2. Molecules in Motion 3. Electrified Atoms 4. Atoms that Explode 5. Atoms and Energy 6. Seeing Atoms at Last
1980	大卫·奇尔顿·菲利浦斯 马克斯·佩鲁茨演讲了第5节 David Chilton Phillips with Max Perutz in Lecture 5	The Chicken, the Egg and the Molecules	1. What are chickens made of? 2. Machine tools of life 3. Muscle power 4. Eggs, genes and proteins 5. Haemoglobin: the breathing molecule 6. Molecules at work
1981	Reginald Victor Jones	From Magna Carta to Microchip[12]	1. Principles, Standards and Methods 2. The Measurement of Time 3. More and More About Less and Less 4. Onwards to the Stars 5. Measurement and Navigation in War 6. Some Impacts of Measurement on Life: And Can We Take it too Far?
1982	科林·布莱克默 Colin Blakemore	Common Sense[13]	1. Making Sense 2. The Sound of Silence 3. The Sixth Sense - and the Rest 4. Show Me the Way to Go Home 5. Vive la différence 6. Enchanted Loom
1983	Leonard Maunder	Machines in Motion[14]	1. Driving Forces 2. Gathering Momentum 3. Vibration 4. Under Control 5. Fluids and Flight 6. Living Machines
1984	沃尔特·博德默尔 Walter Bodmer	The Message of the Genes[15]	1. We're All Different 2. The Spice of Life 3. Genetic Engineering 4. Bodies and Antibodies 5. Normal Cells and Cancer Cells 6. When Will Pigs Have Wings?
1985	约翰·大卫·皮耶 John David Pye	Communicating[16] 交流	1. No Man is an Island 2. Animal Talk 3. The Bionic Bat 4. The Pace of Technology 5. The Integrated Body 6. Computers
1986	刘易斯·沃尔珀特 Lewis Wolpert	Frankenstein's Quest: Development of Life[17]	1. First Take an Egg... 2. The Medium and the Message 3. The Right Stuff 4. Genes and Flies 5. Chain of Command 6. Growing Up and Growing Old
1987	约翰·默瑞格·托马斯和大卫·菲利普斯 John Meurig Thomas and David Phillips	Crystals and Lasers 晶体与激光器	1. Introducing the characters 2. The architecture of crystals 3. Semiconductors, superconductors and catalysts 4. Constructing a laser 5. Applications of lasers 6. Crystals, lasers and the human body
1988	Gareth Roberts	The Home of the Future[18]	1. Appliance Science 2. Home, Safe Home 3. Electronics for Pleasure 4. Home, Smart Home 5. Mixers, Meters and Molecules
1989	查尔斯·A·泰勒 Charles Taylor	Exploring Music[19]	1. What Is Music? 2. The Essence of an Instrument 3. Science, Strings and Symphonies 4. Technology, Trumpets and Tunes 5. Scales, Synthesisers and Samplers
1990	Malcolm Longair	Origins[20]	1. The Grand Design 2. The Birth of the Stars 3. The Origin of Quasars 4. The Origin of the Galaxies 5. The Origin of the Universe
1991	理查德·道金斯 Richard Dawkins	Growing Up in the Universe	1. Waking Up in the Universe 2. Designed and Designoid Objects 3. Climbing Mount Improbable 4. The Ultraviolet Garden 5. The Genesis of Purpose
1992	Charles J. M. Stirling	Our World Through the Looking Glass	1. Man in the Mirror 2. Narwhals, Palindromes and Chesterfield Station 3. The Handed Molecule 4. Symmetry, Sensation and Sex 5. In the Hands of Giants
1993	弗兰克·克洛斯 Frank Close	The Cosmic Onion	1. A is for Atoms 2. To the Centre of the Sun 3. Invaders from Outer Space 4. Anti-Matter Matters 5. An Hour to Make the Universe
1994	苏珊·格林菲尔德 Susan Greenfield	Journey to the Centre of the Brain[21][22]	1. The Electric Ape 2. Through a Glass Darkly 3. Bubble Bubble Toil and Trouble 4. The Seven Ages of the Brain 5. The Mind's I
1995	James Jackson	Planet Earth, An Explorer's Guide	1. On the Edge of the World 2. Secrets of the Deep 3. Volcanoes: Melting the Earth 4. The Puzzle of the Continents 5. Waterworld
1996	Simon Conway Morris	The History in our Bones[23]	1. Staring into the Abyss 2. The Fossils Come Alive 3. The Great Dyings: Life after Death 4. Innovations And Novelty 5. Feet on the Ground, Head in the Stars: The History of Man
1997	艾恩·史都华 Ian Stewart	The Magical Maze	1. Sunflowers and Snowflakes 2. The Pattern of Tiny Feet 3. Outrageous Fortune 4. Chaos and Cauliflowers 5. Fearful Symmetry
1998	Nancy Rothwell	Staying Alive	1. Sense and Sensitivity 2. Fats and figures 3. Chilling out 4. Times of our lives 5. Pushing the limits
1999	Neil F. Johnson	Arrows of Time[24]	1. Back to the Future 2. Catching the Waves 3. The Quantum Leap 4. Edge of Chaos 5. Shaping the Future
2000	凯文·沃威克 Kevin Warwick	Rise of the Robots[25]	1. Anatomy of an Android 2. Things That Think 3. Remote Robots 4. Bionic Bodies 5. I, Robot	Channel 4
2001	约翰·苏尔斯顿 John Sulston	The Secrets of Life[26]	1. What is life? 2. How do I grow? 3. What am I? 4. Can we fix it? 5. Future of life?
2002	Tony Ryan	Smart Stuff[27]	1. The Spider that Spun a Suspension Bridge 2. The Trainer That Ran Over The World 3. The Phone that Shrank the Planet 4. The Plaster that Stretches Life 5. The Ice Cream that Will Freeze Granny
2003	Monica Grady	Voyage in Space and Time[28]	1. Blast Off 2. Mission to Mars 3. Planet Patrol 4. Collision Course 5. Anybody Out There?
2004	Lloyd Peck	Antarctica[28]	1. Ice People 2. Ice Life 3. Ice World
2005	John Krebs	The Truth About Food	1. The ape that cooks 2. Yuck or yummy? 3. You are what you eat 4. When food goes wrong 5. Food for the future	Channel Five
2006	马库斯·杜·索托伊 Marcus du Sautoy	The Num8er My5teries[29]	1. The curious incident of the never-ending numbers 2. The quest to predict the future 3. The story of the elusive shapes 4. The case of the uncrackable code 5. The secret of the winning streak
2007	Hugh Montgomery	Back from the Brink: The Science of Survival	1. Peak Performance 2. Completely Stuffed 3. Grilled and Chilled 4. Fight, Flight and Fright 5. Luck, Genes and Stupidity
2008	克里斯多福·毕晓普 Christopher Bishop	Hi-tech Trek 高科技之旅	1. Breaking the Speed Limit 2. Chips with Everything 3. The Ghost in the Machine 4. Untangling the Web 5. Digital Intelligence
2009	苏·哈特利（英语：Sue Hartley） Sue Hartley	The 300-Million-Year War 三亿年的战争	1. Plant Wars 2. The Animals Strike Back 3. Talking Trees 4. Dangerous to Delicious 5. Weapons of the Future	More4
2010	马克·米奥多尼克 Mark Miodownik	Size Matters 尺寸迷思	1. Why Elephants Can't Dance but Hamsters Can Skydive 2. Why Chocolate Melts and Jet Planes Don't 3. Why Mountains Are So Small	BBC Four
2011	Bruce Hood	Meet Your Brain[30] 认识大脑	1. What's in your head? 2. Who's in charge here anyway? 3. Are you thinking what I'm thinking?
2012	彼得·沃瑟斯 Peter Wothers	The Modern Alchemist 现代炼金术士	1. Air: the elixir of life 2. Water: the fountain of youth 3. Earth: the philosopher's stone
2013	艾丽森·伍拉德 Alison Woollard	Life Fantastic 奇妙的生命	1. Where do I come from? 2. Am I a Mutant? 3. Could I live forever?
2014	丹妮尔·乔治 Danielle George	Sparks will fly: How to Hack your Home 让火花飞：如何利用你的家	1. The light bulb moment 2. Making contact 3. A new revolution
2015	Kevin Fong	How to survive in space 如何在太空中生存	1. Lift off! 2. Life in Orbit 3. The next frontier
2016	Saiful Islam	Supercharged: Fuelling the future 超限储能：驱动未来	1. Let there be light! 2. People Power 3. Fully charged
2017	索菲·斯科特 Sophie Scott	The Language of Life 生命的语言	1. Say it with Sound 2. Silent Messages 3. The Word
2018	Alice Roberts Aoife McLysaght	Who am I?[31] 我是谁	1. Where Do I Come From? 2. What Makes Me Human? 3. What Makes Me, Me?
2019	Hannah Fry	Secrets and Lies: The Hidden Power of Maths[32]	1. How to Get Lucky 2. How to Bend the Rules 3. How Can We All Win?
2020	Christopher Jackson 海伦·切尔斯基Helen Czerski Tara Shine	Planet Earth: A user's guide[33] 行星地球
2021	Jonathan Van-Tam	Going viral: How Covid changed science forever[34]	1. The Invisible Enemy 2. The Perfect Storm 3. Fighting Back
2022	Sue Black	Secrets of Forensic Science[35]	1. Dead Body 2. Missing Body 3. Living Body
2023	迈克尔·沃德里奇 Michael Wooldridge	The Truth about AI AI的真相[36][37]	1. How to Build an Intelligent Machine 2. My AI Life 3. The Future of AI: Dream or Nightmare?
2024	Chris van Tulleken[38]	The Truth About Food 食品的真相	1. From Tastebuds to Toilet 2. How Food Makes Us 3. The Big Food Hack