History of Science Events at The Royal Society
Friday 5 October, 1.00pm
Prof. Gregory Radick, University of Leeds
The Role of the Royal Society in the Battle over Mendelism
http://royalsociety.org/events/2012/mendelism/
Friday 12 October, 1.00pm
Professor George Rousseau, University of Oxford
The Notorious Sir John Hill: Georgian Celebrity Science and Attacks on the Royal Society
http://royalsociety.org/events/2012/notorious-john-hill/
Wednesday 17 October, 6.30pm
Dr Andrew Hodges, Wadham College, Oxford
Alan Turing: Not Just a Beautiful Mind
http://royalsociety.org/events/2012/alan-turing/
Friday 19 October, 1.00pm
Dr Clemency Fisher
The zoological world of Edward Lear
http://royalsociety.org/events/2012/world-of-lear/
Friday 26 October, 1.00pm
Prof. Elizabeth Valentine
Spooks and spoofs: Psychologists and psychical research in the inter-war years
http://royalsociety.org/events/2012/spooks-and-spoofs/
Friday 2 November, 1.00pm
Ross MacFarlane
Wellcome’s collectors
http://royalsociety.org/events/2012/wellcomes-collectors/
Friday 9 November, 1.00pm
Dr David Cram
Teaching language to the deaf in the 17th century: the dispute between John Wallis and William Holder
http://royalsociety.org/events/2012/wallis-holder-dispute/
Friday 16 November, 1.00pm
Dr Diane Johnson
Iron from the sky: the potential influence of meteorites on ancient Egyptian culture
http://royalsociety.org/events/2012/egyptian-meteorites/
Friday 23 November, 1.00pm
Dr Sally Horrocks
Science in the News: Regional Independent Television in the English Midlands during the 1950s and 1960s
http://royalsociety.org/events/2012/science-television/
Tuesday 27 November, 6.30pm
Prof. Mordechai Feingold and Prof. Jed Buchwald
Newton and the Origin of Civilization
http://royalsociety.org/events/2012/newton-and-civilization/
Dr Felicity Henderson
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