# Medawar Lecture

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The **Medawar Lecture** was an annual lecture on the [philosophy of science](/source/Philosophy_of_science) organised by the [Royal Society of London](/source/Royal_Society_of_London) in memory of Sir [Peter Medawar](/source/Peter_Medawar). It was last delivered in 2004 after which it was merged with the [Wilkins Lecture](/source/Wilkins_Lecture) and the [Bernal Lecture](/source/Bernal_Lecture) to form the [Wilkins-Bernal-Medawar Lecture](/source/Wilkins-Bernal-Medawar_Lecture).[1]

## List of lecturers

Year Name Lecture Notes 1986 Karl Raimund Popper A new interpretation of Darwinism.[2] — 1990 Lewis Thomas The new transitional structure of basic science: prospects and apprehensions. — 1992 Max Ferdinand Perutz Species adaptation in a protein molecule. — 1995 John Michael Ziman Post-academic science. — 1998 Lewis Wolpert Is science dangerous? — 2001 Richard Langton Gregory Knowledge for vision: vision for knowledge. — 2004 Peter Lipton The truth about science —

## References

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

1. *Niemann, Hans-Joachim: Karl Popper and the Two New Secrets of Life: Including Karl Popper's Medawar Lecture 1986 and Three Related Texts* Tubingen: Mohr Siebeck, 2014. ISBN 978-3161532078.

- ["The Florey Lecture (1981)"](http://royalsociety.org/page.asp?tip=1&id=1807). Retrieved 2009-03-20.

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