# Bernal Lecture

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The **Bernal Lecture**[1] was an annual lecture on the social function of science organised by the [Royal Society of London](/source/Royal_Society_of_London) and endowed by Professor [John Desmond Bernal](/source/John_Desmond_Bernal). It was last delivered in 2004, after which it was merged with the [Wilkins Lecture](/source/Wilkins_Lecture) and [Medawar Lecture](/source/Medawar_Lecture) to form the [Wilkins-Bernal-Medawar Lecture](/source/Wilkins-Bernal-Medawar_Lecture).[2]

## List of lecturers

Year Name Lecture Notes 1971 Eric Ashby Science and Antiscience. — 1974 Conrad Hal Waddington The new Atlantis revisited. — 1977 Piotr Leonidovich Kapitza Scientific and social approaches for the solution of global problems. — 1980 John Maynard Smith Science, ideology and myth. — 1983 John Ziman The collectivization of science. — 1986 Walter Bodmer The public understanding of science. — 1989 Walter Perry Science and education. — 1992 Alec Jeffreys Molecular sleuthing: the story of DNA fingerprinting. (Sci. publ. Affairs Autumn 1993, 24.) (Delivered in 1993 in London and Keele.) — 1995 William Stewart UK Science and Technology policy: a perspective from the past, a vision for the future. (Sci. publ. Affairs, Spring 1996.) (Delivered in London and Dundee.) — 1998 Tom Blundell The networking of academic and industrial research: the UK phenomenon. (Delivered in London and York.) — 2001 Alan Lindsay Mackay JD Bernal: his legacy to science and to society (Delivered in London.). — 2004 Michael Joseph Crumpton Are low-frequency environmental fields a health hazard? —

## References

1. ["The Bernal Lecture (1969)"](https://royalsociety.org/awards/bernal-lecture/). Retrieved 9 August 2014.

1. ["The 2010 Wilkins-Bernal-Medawar Lecture"](http://royalsociety.org/Wilkins-Bernal-Medawar-Lecture/). The Royal Society. Retrieved 14 August 2010.

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