The

Robert Boyle Robert Boyle (; 25 January 1627 – 31 December 1691) was an Anglo-Irish natural philosopher, chemist, physicist, alchemist and inventor. Boyle is largely regarded today as the first modern chemist, and therefore one of the founders of ...

Lecture is a lecture series delivered to the Oxford University Scientific Club (formerly the Oxford University Junior Scientific Club) at the

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. The first lecture was delivered in 1892.

The lectures

* 1 - The place in science and the character of Robert Boyle * 2 - Molecular Tactics of a Crystal * 5 - Argon and Helium, the Two Recently Discovered Gases * 8 - Magnetism in Growth * 9 - The rise of the experimental method in Oxford * 13 - The Pressure of Light * 14 - The Scope and Importance to the State of the Science of National Eugenics * 17 - The Fertility of the Soil * 18 - The Growth of a Crystal * 21 - Nationality and Race (delivered by

Arthur Keith Sir Arthur Keith FRS FRAI (5 February 1866 – 7 January 1955) was a British anatomist and anthropologist, and a proponent of scientific racism. He was a fellow and later the Hunterian Professor and conservator of the Hunterian Museum of the ...

)Nationality and Race from an Anthropologist's Point of View by Arthur Keith
1919,

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. * 22 - Anthropology and history * 23 - Electrons and Ether Waves * 27 - The Geological Age of the Earth * 28 - Recent Developments in Atomic Theory * 33 - The Problems of Specificity in Biochemical Catalysis * 39 - The structure of alloys * 49 - Anatomical pattern as the essential basis of sensory discrimination * 50 - Science and International Relations * 53 - A Hundred Years of Spectroscopy...

Lecturers

In 1998, the lecture was presented by

Kevin Warwick Kevin Warwick (born 9 February 1954) is an English engineer and Deputy Vice-Chancellor (Research) at Coventry University. He is known for his studies on direct interfaces between computer systems and the human nervous system, and has also done ...

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Boyle Boyle is an English, Irish and Scottish surname of Gaelic, Anglo-Saxon or Norman origin. In the northwest of Ireland it is one of the most common family names. Notable people with the surname include: Disambiguation *Adam Boyle (disambiguation), ...

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