The Wilkins-Bernal-Medawar Lecture is a public lecture organised annually by the

Royal Society of London The Royal Society, formally The Royal Society of London for Improving Natural Knowledge, is a learned society and the United Kingdom's national academy of sciences. The society fulfils a number of roles: promoting science and its benefits, re ...

. It was formed in 2005 by the merger of the

Wilkins Lecture The Wilkins Lecture was a lecture organised by the Royal Society of London on the subject of the history of science and named after John Wilkins John Wilkins, (14 February 1614 – 19 November 1672) was an Anglican clergyman, natural philo ...

, the Bernal Lecture and the Medawar Lecture. The subject matter for the lecture is some aspect of the social function of science as per the Bernal Lecture, the philosophy of science as per the Medawar Lecture or the history of science as per the

List of lecturers

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