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1a - A view of earth and air/ Desmond George King-Hele
1b - The physiology of the spore surface/ John Heslop-Harrison
2a - The control of cell-growth regulation/ Renato Dulbecco
2b - Body temperature and fever: changes in our views during the last decade/ Wilhelm Siegmund Feldberg
3a - The New Atlantis revisited/ Conrad Hal Waddington
3b - Nucleotide sequences in DNA/ Frederick Sanger
4a - Global geometry/ Michael Francis Atiyah
4b - Bacterial sporulation/ Joel Mandelstam
5a - Egg cytoplasm and gene control in development/ John Bertrand Gurdon
5b - The varied contributions of protozoa to genetical knowledge/ Geoffrey Herbert Beale
6a - Towards synthesis of proteins/ George Wallace Kenner
6b - Scientific and social approaches for the solution of global problems/ Piotr Leonidovich Kapitza
7a - Radar: new techniques and applications/ Eric Eastwood
7b - Science technology and education: England in 1870/ Margaret Mary Gowing
8a - Induction motors: old and new/ Gordon Hindle Rawcliffe
8b - The neuron networks of the cerebral cortex: a functional interpretation/ Janos Szentagothai
9a - Stretch activation of muscle/ John William Sutton Pringle
9b - Mouse teratocarcinoma and mouse embryo/ Francois Jacob
10a - Mouse teratocarcinoma and mouse embryo/ Francois Jacob
10b - Recent advances in acoustic imaging/ Eric Albert Ash
11a - Crawling movement of metazoan cells/ Michael Abercrombie
11b - Cosmic exploration by x-rays/ Robert Lewis Fullarton Boyd
12a - Of the local movement of animals/ Gweneth Whitteridge
12b - Regulation of muscle contraction/ Setsuro Ebashi
13a - From the slave to the servant: the evolution of computing systems/ Gordon George Scarrott
13b - Multicritical points in magnets and fluids - a review of some novel states of matter/ Michael Ellis Fisher
14a - Experiments in microbial evolution: new techniques, new enzymes, new metabolic activities/ Patricia Hannah Clarke
14b - Science, ideology and myth/ John Maynard Smith
15a - Cerebral cortex and the design of the eye/ Horace Basil Barlow
15b - Complex proteases of the complement system/ Rodney Robert Porter
16a - Monoclonal antibodies from hybrid myelomas/ Cesar Milstein
16b - Memory: its function, technology and impact/ Derek Harry Roberts
17a - Lampbrush chromosomes/ Harold Garnet Callan
17b - Natural selection of the chemical elements/ Robert Joseph Patton Williams
18a - The biochemical and genetic approach to the study of bioenergetics with the use of Escherichia coli: progress and prospects/ Frank William Ernest Gibson
18b - Galaxies and their nuclei/ Martin John Rees
19a - The uncertain road to modern medicines/ James Whyte Black
19b - The world's largest accelerator: the electron-positron collider LEP/ Michael Crowley-Milling
20a - One hundred years after Charles Darwin/ Sydney Smith
20b - Genes, neurons and behaviour in Drosophila/ Seymour Benzer
21 - Amino acids and peptides: fast and slow chemical signals in the nervous system/ Leslie Lars Iversen
22a - Voltage-gated ion channels in the nerve membrane/ Richard Darwin Keynes
22b - The earth's core: its composition, formation and bearing upon the origin of the earth/ Alfred Edward Ringwood
23a - Studies of microbial products in rising to the challenge of curing cancer/ Hamao Umezawa
23b - The impact of industrial and academic collaboration on new technology/ Geoffrey Alan
24a - Amino acids and peptides: fast and slow chemical signals in the nervous system/ Leslie Lars Iversen
24b - A prototype vaccine to prevent Epstein-Barr (EB) virus-associated tumors/ Michael Anthony Epstein
25 - Electronic displays: the link between man and microcircuit/ Cyril Hilsum
26 - Calcium and the regulation of contractile activity/ Samuel Victor Perry
27 - Biosynthesis of the pigments of life/ Alan Rushton Battersby
28 - Microwaves: the art and the science/ Alexander Lamb Cullen
29 - Renewing the role of research establishments/ David Allen Rees
30 - John Wilkins, John Ray and Carl Linnaeus/ William Thomas Stearn
31 - Approaches to developmental genetics in the mouse/ Francois Jacob
32 - When two and two do not make four: nonlinear phenomena in ecology/ Robert McCredie May
33 - Liquid crystals/ George William Gray
34 - The development of switched reluctance drives/ Peter John Lawrenson
35 - Research, business and the universities/ John Ivan George Cadogan
36 - A molecular biologist's view of viral hepatitis/ Kenneth Murray
37 - The action of parasympathetic and sympathetic nerves in human micturition, erection and seminal emission, and their restoration in paraplegic patients/ Giles Skey Brindley
38 - Fundamental limits to microstructure fabrication/ Alec Nigel Broers
39 - The new materials/ Anthony Kelly
40 - The molecular genetics of the muscles in the nematode Caenorhabditis elegans/ Sydney Brenner
41 - Genetic engineering and human disease/ David John Weatherall
42 - Studies of a primate's brain and hand/ Charles Garrett Philips
43 - Acoustic monitoring of ocean gyres/ Walter Heinrich Munk
44 - Critical aspects of industrial and academic collaboration/ Frank Brian Mercer
45 - Global weather models for aircraft route planning/ Peter Wilfred White
46 - The public understanding of science/ Walter Bodmer
47 - Remote sensing from space/ John Theodore Houghton
48a - The molecular control of normal and leukaemic granulytes and macrophages/ Donald Metcalf
48b - Molecular regulators of normal and leukaemic blood cells/ Leo Sachs
49 - Environmental carcinogens and papillomaviruses in the pathogenesis of cancer/ William Fleming Hoggan Jarret
50 - The semiclassical chaology of quantum eigenvalues/ Michael Victor Berry
51 - Corticomotorneuronal projections: synaptic events related to skilled movement/ Robert Porter
52 - Proton-motive osmoenzyme mechanisms in cytochrome systems: variations on a theme by Keilin/ Peter Dennis Mitchell
53 - Ebryonic chimeras: a tool for studying the development of the nervous and immune systems/ Nicole Le Douarin
54 - Towards an understanding of gene switching in streptomyces, the basis of sporulation and antibiotic production/ David Alan Hopwood
55 - Mitigating the destructive effects of wind/ Allan Garnett Davenport
56 - Brain and hand in the development of the technology of time-measurement/ David S Landes
57 - Inositol lipids and cell signalling/ Michael John Berridge
58 - Microlithography and the ultraviolet: experiments with an excimer laser/ Walter Thompson Welford
59 - Industrial research: success and failure/ Robin Buchanan Nicholson
60 - Molecular taphonomy: the chemistry of maturation of organic matter in sediments/ Guy Ourisson
61 - Antoni van Leeuwenhoek (1632-1723) and Anglo-Dutch collaboration/ Alfred Rupert Hall
62 - Muscular dystrophy:a time of hope/ Louis Martens Kunkel
63 - The dynamics of Darwinian evolution/ Erik Christopher Zeeman
64 - Genetic fingerprinting/ Alec John Jeffreys
65 - New magnetic materials/ Dennis Hadfield
66 - Self-tolerance: the key to autoimmunity/ Anthony Basten
67 - Cluster compounds: a new aspect of inorganic chemistry/ Jack Lewis
68 - Antibodies: a paradigm for the biology of molecular recognition/ Cesar Milstein
69 - Science and education/ Lord Perry of Walton
70 - The organization and management of R&D in a privatized British Telecom/ Alan Walter Rudge
71 - Lasers: the minimally invasive surgeons of the future/ Dr Stephen Brown
72 - Does industrial R&D pay?/ Cyril Hilsum
73 - Antigenic variation in African trypanosomes/ Piet Borst
74 - Deterministic chaos: the science and the fiction/ David Ruelle
75 - Side glances at blindsight: recent approaches to implicit discrimination in human cortical blindness/ Lawrence Weiskrantz
76 - Nature and nurture in the development of vision/ Colin Blakemore
77 - New microcrystalline catalysts/ John Meurig Thomas
78 - Surface water acidification programme: banquet
79 - The new transnational structure of basic science: prospects and apprehensions/ Lewis Thomas
80 - Embryo manipulation and transgenesis in animals/ Ernest John Christopher Polge
81 - Glass and windows/ Sir Alastair Pilkington
82 - Commercial space programmes: building a sound technology base/ James Rose
83 - Steroid hormones and anti hormones: molecular and patho-physiological aspects/ Etienne-Emile Baulieu
84 - Black holes made simple/ Malcolm Sim Longair
85 - Progress and research in the computer industry/ Maurice Vincent Wilkes
86 - How enveloped viruses enter cells/ John James Skehel
87 - The T-cell repertoire/ John Wayne Kappler and Philippa Charlotte Marrack
88 - The development and exploitation of gas-fired rapid-heating furnaces for metal heating/ Kevin Fred Pomfret and John Dorian Waddington
89 - Early human development: Why do we need research?/ Anne Laura McLaren
90 - Risk in the natural world and human society given by Sir Richard Southwood
91 - How many species on earth today and tomorrow?/ Robert McCredie May
92 - Improving the combustion of heavy fuel oil/ Christopher Lawn
93 - Magnetism: theory and applications/ Henrick Casimir
94 - Darwinizing with a vengeance/ Richard Dawkins
95 - Genostasis and limits to evolution/ Anthony David Bradshaw
96 - Chemistry of superconducting oxides/ C N R Rao
97 - The colony-stimulating factors: discovery to clinical use/ Donald Metcalf
98 - New contraceptives: Victorian or Utopian?/ Carl Djerassi
99 - The triumph of the embryo/ Lewis Wolpert
100 - Circuits, sensors and strands of light/ David Neil Payne
101 - The influence of the host on microbes that cause disease/ Harry Smith
102 - A new interpretation of Darwinism/ Karl Popper
103 - A scientist in the world of music/ Charles Alfred Taylor
104 - Life on the edge: evolution of rifted continental margins/ Charlotte Keen
105 - Random surfaces/ Edouard Brezin
106 - Power generation in the future: the Swedish case/ Bertil Agrenius
107 - Energy use and management in British Steel/ Frank Fitzgerald
108 - Bishop John Wilkins FRS (1614-1672): Analogies of thought-style in the Protestant Reformation and early modern science/ Stephen Finney Mason
109 - The puzzles of cosmology and quantum theory/ Roger Penrose
110 - The key role of thymus in the body's defence strategies/ Jacques F A P Miller
111 - Why industrial research?/ George S van Houten
112 - Messenger molecules and the enemy within/ Fran Balkwill
113 - Species adaptation in a protein molecule/ Max Ferdinand Perutz
114 - Nano-technology applied to surfaces/ Roger Appeldorn
115 - Seeing depth with two eyes: Stereopsis/ Gerald Westheimer
116 - Product planning: some case histories of interaction with R&D/ Makoto Kikuchi
117 - Living with the second law/ George Porter
118 - Bacterial evolution and the nitrogen-fixing plant/ John Raymond Postgate
119 - Magnetohydrodynamics in material processing/ Marcel Garnier
120 - Go for it/ Helen Sharman
121 - Thermal imaging: A new eye on the world/ Charles Thomas Elliot
122 - Aluminium: present and future applications in motor vehicles/ Michael Wheeler
123 - The mystery of vortex breakdown/ Thomas Brooke Benjamin
124 - Energy for the 21st century: a perspective on nuclear fusion/ Martin Keilhacker
125 - The public understanding of engineering/ Eric Albert Ash
126 - Exploring science hands on/ Richard Langton Gregory
127 - Controlling cell reproduction/ Paul Maxime Nurse
128 - C60 Buckminsterfullerenes, the celestial sphere that fell to earth/ Harold Kroto
129 - The Endothelium: Maestro of the blood circulation/ John Vane
130 - Food technology in a sustainable world/ Brian Suter
131 - Peptide vaccines: dream or reality/ Fred Brown
132 - Mechanism of supernovae/ Hans Albrecht Bethe
133 - The pathology of modern building/ William Allen
134 - Accurate measurement in in vivo magnetic resonance: an engineering problem?/ Ian Robert Young
135 - Molecular sleuthing: the story of DNA fingerprinting/ Alec John Jeffreys
136 - Biotechnology in action/ Peter Doyle
137 - Exploitation -or responsible use- of the oceans/ Anthony Laughton
138 - The impact of the Human Genome Project on medicine and society: lessons from the study of muscular dystrophy/ Ronald Worton
139 - Energy and the environment/ Ian Fells
140 - Hamiltonian dynamics and the ergodic hypothesis/ Michael Herman
141 - Dinosaurs- from rocks to robotics/ Angela Milner
142 - Edmond Halley as a historian of science/ Allan Chapman
143 - Science and the media/ Ian Fells
144 - Populations, infectious disease and immunity: a very non-linear world/ Roy Malcom Anderson
145 - Photochemistry in the adsorbed state: Using light as a scalpel and a crystal as an operating table/ John Charles Polanyi
146 - From a Big Bang to a complex cosmos: progress and prospects in cosmology/ Martin John Rees
147 - The opportunistic parasite/ Keith Vickerman
148 - Seeing machines and robots/ John Michael Brady
149 - The acoustics of concert halls/ Russell Johnson
150 - The relationship between technology and art/ Robin Baker and Philip Hughes
151 - "Frogs and snails and puppy dogs' tails"/ Peter Neville Goodfellow
152 - When thought experiments become real: testing quantum mechanics with atoms and photons in a cavity/ Serge Haroche
153 - The fetal origins of adult disease/ David Barker
154 - Behind the seen (scene): an exploration of the visual brain/ Semir Zeki
155 - Composites: towards intelligent materials design/ Anthony Kelly
156 - Optical fibre communications, present and future/ John Edwin Midwinter
157 - Science and crime/ Brian Sheard
158 - Electronics with molecules: miracle or mirage/ Peter Day
159 - Adaptation to life without oxygen/ John Rodney Guest
160 - Scientific literacy and the book of man/ Walter Bodmer
161 - Volcanoes: predicting the unpredictable/ Hazel Rymer
162 - Modelling communication networks, present and future/ Francis Patrick Kelly
163 - Post-academic Science? Constructing knowledge with networks and norms/ John Michael Ziman
164 - UK Science and Technology policy: a perspective from the past, a vision for the future/ William Stewart
165 - Consciousness: What's the problem and who's to solve it?/ Jeffrey Alan Gray
166 - National or notional Laboratories?/ Arthur Marshall Stoneham
167 - Doppler ultrasound: its development and clinical application/ Richard S C Cobbold
168 - Water companies and the environment/ Michael Richard Hoffman
169 - Mathematical clues to nature's secrets/ Ian Nicholas Stewart
170 - Pleasure and pain: a matter of peptide homeostasis/ Bernard Roques
171 - Global warming- a scientific update/ John Theodore Houghton
172 - How energy-conscious is your home?/ Peter Chapman and George Henderson
173 - The cosmic onion/ Frank Close
174 - Endogenous damage to DNA/ Thomas Robert Lindahl
175 - Microbial molecular diversity: function, evolution and applications/ Julian Edmund Davies
176 - Genetically engineered synthesis: In vitro reconstruction of biosynthetic pathways/ Alastair Ian Scott
177 - Superconductivity: will the dream come true?/ Martin Francis Wood
178 - Making sense of the world/ Helen Haste
179 - New materials: fact or fantasy?/ Robert Young
180 - On the usefulness of the history of science for scientific education/ Claude Debru
181 - The human factor in aviation: the weakest or the strongest link/ Michael Bagshaw
182 - Fuel for thought: making jet engines more efficient/ T V Jones
183 - What sex really means/ John Steven Jones
184 - Molecular biology of prion diseases/ Charles Weissmann
185 - Marek's disease: tumours and prevention/ Peter Martin Biggs
186 - Minds, memories and molecules: a view of the brain/ Steven Rose
187 - The phosphorylation of proteins on tyrosine: its role in cell growth and disease/ Anthony Rex Hunter
188 - Sweet dreams: new strategies for oligosaccharide assembly/ Steven Victor Ley
189 - The impact on GPS on future navigation/ Vidal Ashkenazi
190 - From electrons and photons to optoelectronics and photonics/ Gareth Parry
191 - A little light relief/ David Phillips
192 - Erasmus Darwin: the Lunaticks and evolution/ Desmond George King-Hele
193 - Clean energy for the 21st energy/ Dr Robert Hawley
194 - The revolution of the 70s: Putting molecular biology to work/ Sir Kenneth Murray
195 - Virtual reality: an industrial and cultural revolution/ Robert Stone
196 - On the ABC conjecture/ Cameron Stewart
197 - Science, technology and responsibilty/ John Browne
198 - Cosmic explosions and the creation of the elements/ Jocelyn Bell Burnell
199 - Sequence-specific recognition of nucleic acids and control of gene expression: from chemistry to clinics/ Claude Helene
200 - Ozone: protector or polluter/ David Phillips
201 - The networking of academic and industrial research: the UK phenomenon/ Sir Thomas Blundell
202 - There is life beyond 25 years: the benefits of life extension of Magnox Reactors and how this is being achieved/ Christopher John Bolton
203 - The role of reversible protein phosphorylation in human health and disease/ Philip Cohen
204 - Is science dangerous?/ Lewis Wolpert
205 - The morphological evolution of the galaxies/ Richard Ellis
206 - Investigating the paranormal: a sceptical perspective/ Richard Wiseman
207 - The genetics and cell biology of antigenic variations in trypanosomes/ George Cross
208 - Semiconductor and nanostructures and new quantum effects
209 - Killer T cells and virus infections
210 - Amorphous semiconductors: a new generation of electronic materials
211 - Amorphous silicon: a metastable system in thermodynamic equilibrium
212 - Progress and Research into the Communications industry
213 - Intracellular membrane traffic: getting proteins sorted
214 - A Natural History of Scientists; by Dr Richard Fortey FRS
215 - Michael Faraday Lecture 1989
216 - Michael Faraday Lecture 1994
217 - The nicotinic acetylcholine receptor and synaptic plasticity.
218 - Nobel Prize Lecture
219 - Making Light Work: Applications of high power lasers
220 - Making Babies: Trouble for the future
221 - Introduced Species and Conservation
222 - Boosting production from low pressure oil and gas fields: A revolution in hydrocarbon production
223 - Esso Energy Award Lecture
224 - Engineering Reproduction: private issues and public confidence
225 - Lecture for the Public
226 - Hartley Lecture
227 - Bernel Lecture
228 - Knowledge for vision: vision for knowledge
229 - Light guiding light in the new millenium
230 - Michael Faraday Lecture
231 - Computer Security?
232 - Michael Faraday Lecture 2002
233 - Claude Bernard Lecture
234 - Croonian Lecture
235 - Snows of Kilimanjaro
236 - Claude Bernard Lecture
237 - Magnetic brain stimulation: what can it tell us about brain function?
238 - Rosalind Franklin Lecture
239 - Adventures in Vascular Biology
240 - Brain development and brain repair: Molecules and mechanisms that control neuronal wiring
241 - Bakerian Lecture
242 - The uses of infinity: a philosopher looks at emergent phenomena in physics
243 - Public Lecture
244 - Public Lecture
245 - Touchdown on Titan
246 - The House of Wisdom and the legacy of Arabic Science.
247 - Bakerian Lecture
248 - GSK Lecture
249 - Royal Society Lecture for the Public 1999
250 - Royal Society Wilkins Lecture 2000
251 - Royal Society Leeweunhoek Lecture 2004
252 - Royal Society Croonian Lecture 2004
253 - Royal Society Public Lecture 2005
254 - Royal Society Bakerian Lecture 2005
255 - Royal Society Leuwenhoek Lecture 2005
256 - Royal Society Wilkins Lecture 2006
257 - Royal Society Croonian Lecture 2006
258 - Royal Society Public Lecture
259 - Royal Society Michael Faraday Lecture
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Browse the records of some of our collections, which cover all branches of science and date from the 12th century onwards. These include the published works of Fellows of the Royal Society, personal papers of eminent scientists, letters and manuscripts sent to the Society or presented at meetings, and administrative records documenting the Society's activities since our foundation in 1660.

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