英国皇家科学院圣诞讲座

聖誕講座(或稱耶誕講座)是指自1825年以來由英國皇家科學院在倫敦所辦的系列講座,向大眾介紹科學新知為名,而以易懂且富娛樂性為其特色,如化學家法拉第的最著名的通俗科學演講蠟燭系列講座[1]

法拉第1856年的講座


历年讲座

没有电视直播的年代:1825到1965

年份 演讲者 主题
1825 John Millington Natural Philosophy
1826 John Wallis[2] Astronomy
1827 麥可·法拉第 Chemistry
1828 J. Wood Architecture
1829 麥可·法拉第 Electricity
1830 Thomas Webster Geology
1831 James Rennie 动物学
1832 麥可·法拉第 化学
1833 约翰·林德利 植物学
1834 William Thomas Brande Chemistry
1835 麥可·法拉第 Electricity
1836 William Thomas Brande Chemistry of the Gases
1837 麥可·法拉第 Chemistry
1838 John Wallis[2] Astronomy
1839 William Thomas Brande The Chemistry of the Atmosphere and the Ocean
1840 John Frederic Daniell The First Principles of Franklinic Electricity
1841 麥可·法拉第 The Rudiments of Chemistry
1842 William Thomas Brande The Chemistry of the Non-Metallic Elements
1843 麥可·法拉第 First Principles of Electricity
1844 William Thomas Brande The Chemistry of the Gases
1845 麥可·法拉第 The Rudiments of Chemistry
1846 John Wallis[2] The Rudiments of Astronomy
1847 William Thomas Brande The Elements of Organic Chemistry
1848 麥可·法拉第 The Chemical History of a Candle
1849 Robert Walker The Properties of Matter and the Laws of Motion
1850 William Thomas Brande The Chemistry of Coal
1851 麥可·法拉第 Attractive Forces
1852 Chemistry
1853 Voltaic Electricity
1854 The Chemistry of Combustion
1855 The Distinctive Properties of the Common Metals
1856 Attractive Forces
1857 Static Electricity
1858 The Metallic Properties
1859 The Various Forces of Matter and their Relations to Each Other
1860 The Chemical History of a Candle
1861 约翰·丁达尔 Light
1862 Edward Frankland Air and Water
1863 约翰·丁达尔 Electricity at Rest and Electricity in Motion
1864 Edward Frankland The Chemistry of a Coal
1865 约翰·丁达尔 Sound
1866 Edward Frankland The Chemistry of Gases
1867 约翰·丁达尔 Heat and Cold
1868 William Odling The Chemical Changes of Carbon
1869 约翰·丁达尔 Light
1870 William Odling Burning and Unburning
1871 约翰·丁达尔 Ice, Water, Vapour and Air
1872 William Odling Air and Gas
1873 约翰·丁达尔 The Motion and Sensation of Sound
1874 John Hall Gladstone The Voltaic Battery
1875 约翰·丁达尔 Experimental Electricity
1876 John Hall Gladstone The Chemistry of Fire
1877 约翰·丁达尔 Heat, Visible and Invisible
1878 詹姆斯·杜瓦 A Soap Bubble
1879 约翰·丁达尔 Water and Air
1880 詹姆斯·杜瓦 Atoms
1881 Robert Stawell Ball The Sun, the Moon and the Planets
1882 约翰·丁达尔 Light and the Eye
1883 詹姆斯·杜瓦 Alchemy in Relation to Modern Science
1884 约翰·丁达尔 The Sources of Electricity
1885 詹姆斯·杜瓦 The Story of a Meteorite
1886 The Chemistry of Light and Photography
1887 Robert Stawell Ball Astronomy
1888 詹姆斯·杜瓦 Clouds and Cloudland
1889 Arthur Rücker Electricity
1890 詹姆斯·杜瓦 霜与火
1891 John Gray McKendrick Life in Motion; or the Animal Machine
1892 Robert Stawell Ball Astronomy
1893 詹姆斯·杜瓦 空气:气体和液体
1894 约翰·弗莱明 电流作的功
1895 John Gray McKendrick Sound, Hearing and Speech
1896 Sylvanus Phillips Thompson Light, Visible and Invisible
1897 Oliver Lodge The Principles of the Electric Telegraph
1898 Robert Stawell Ball Astronomy
1899 查理士·凡而儂·波伊斯 运动和静止状态下的流体
1900 Robert Stawell Ball Great Chapters from the Book of Nature
1901 约翰·弗莱明 水、空气和以太的波浪和涟漪
1902 Henry Selby Hele-Shaw Locomotion : On the Earth, Through the Water, in the Air
1903 Edwin Ray Lankester Extinct Animals
1904 Henry Cunynghame Ancient and Modern Methods of Measuring Time
1905 Herbert Hall Turner Astronomy
1906 William Duddell Signalling to a Distance
1907 戴维·吉尔 新旧天文学
1908 William Stirling The Wheel of Life
1909 William Duddell Modern Electricity
1910 Sylvanus Phillips Thompson Sound: Musical and Non-Musical
1911 Peter Chalmers Mitchell The Childhood of Animals
1912 詹姆斯·杜瓦 最后一次圣诞讲座
1913 Herbert Hall Turner A Voyage in Space
1914 查理士·凡而儂·波伊斯 住宅中的科学
1915 Herbert Hall Turner Wireless Messages from the Stars
1916 Arthur Keith The Human Machine Which All Must Work
1917 约翰·弗莱明 我们有用的仆人:磁和电
1918 D'Arcy Wentworth Thompson The Fish of the Sea
1919 威廉·亨利·布拉格 声音的世界
1920 John Arthur Thomson The Haunts of Life
1921 约翰·弗莱明 电波与无线电话
1922 Herbert Hall Turner Six Steps Up the Ladder to the Stars
1923 威廉·亨利·布拉格 关于事物的本质
1924 Francis Balfour-Browne Concerning the Habits of Insects
1925 威廉·亨利·布拉格 老手艺与新知识
1926 阿奇博爾德·希爾 神经和肌肉:我们的感觉和运动
1927 Edward Andrade Engines
1928 Alexander Wood Sound Waves and their Uses
1929 Stephen Glanville How Things Were Done in Ancient Egypt
1930 Arthur Mannering Tyndall The Electric Spark
1931 威廉·亨利·布拉格 光的宇宙
1932 Alexander Oliver Rankine The Round of the Waters
1933 詹姆士·金斯 穿越时空
1934 威廉·劳伦斯·布拉格
1935 Charles Edward Kenneth Mees Photography
1936 傑弗里·泰勒 轮船
1937 朱利安·赫胥黎 珍稀野生动物的消失
1938 James Kendall Young Chemists and Great Discoveries
1939–1942 第二次世界大战爆发而暂停
1943 Edward Andrade Vibrations and Waves
1944 Harold Spencer Jones Astronomy in our Daily Life
1945 勞勃·華生-瓦特 无线电报
1946 Hamilton Hartridge Colours and How We See Them
1947 Eric Keightly Rideal Chemical Reactions: How They Work
1948 弗雷德里克·巴特莱特 工作和娱乐的大脑
1949 Percy Dunsheath The Electric Current
1950 Edward Andrade Waves and Vibrations
1951 James Gray How Animals Move
1952 F. Sherwood Taylor How Science Has Grown
1953 John Ashworth Ratcliffe The Uses of Radio Waves
1954 弗兰克·惠特尔 石油的故事
1955 Harry W. Melville Big Molecules
1956 Harry Baines Photography
1957 朱利安·赫胥黎 and James Fisher Birds
1958 John Ashworth Ratcliffe, James M. Stagg,
Robert L. F. Boyd,
Graham Sutton,
George E. R. Deacon,
Gordon de Quetteville Robin
International Geophysical Year
1959 Thomas Allibone The Release and Use of Atomic Energy
1960 Vernon Ellis Cosslett Seeing the Very Small
1961 威廉·劳伦斯·布拉格 Electricity
1962 R. E. D. (Richard Evelyn Donohue) Bishop Vibration
1963 Ronald King Energy
1964 德斯蒙德·莫利斯 Animal Behaviour
1965 Bernard Lovell, Francis Graham-Smith,
马丁·赖尔安东尼·休伊什
Exploration of the Universe

电视直播的年代:1966至今

年份 演讲者 主题 分节标题 电视台
1966 Eric Laithwaite The Engineer in Wonderland[3] 1. The White Rabbit

2. Only the Grin was Left

3. The Caucus Race

4. Curiouser and Curiouser

5. If only I were the right size to do it

6. It's the Oldest Rule in the Book

BBC Two
1967 Richard L. Gregory The Intelligent Eye[4] 1. Ancient Eyes and Simple Brains

2. Learning to See Things

3. Playing with Illusions

4. How Illusions Play Games with Us

5. Human Eyes in Space

6. The Future-Machines that See?

1968 Philip Morrison Gulliver's Laws: The Physics of Large and Small[5] 1. The World of Captain Gulliver

2. Meat and Drink Sufficient...

3. A Prodigious Leap?

4. Lilliput and Brobdingnag since the Industrial Revolution

5. Dwarf and Giant Numbers

6. Beyond the Map

1969 乔治·波特 Time Machines[6] 1. In the Beginning...

2. Clockwork Harmony

3. The Tick of the Atom

4. Big Time, Little Time

5. Faster, Faster

6. To the Ends of Time

1970 John Napier Monkeys Without Tails: A Giraffe's Eye-view of Man[7] 1. Man has a very short neck and no tail

2. Man comes in several different sizes and shapes

3. Fancy having to climb trees in order to eat

4. Man chooses a sensible place to live at last

5. Why choose to walk on two legs when it is much safer on four?

6. What's the idea of shooting at us?

1971 Charles Taylor Sounds of Music: The Science of Tones and Tune[8] 1. Making and Measuring the Waves

2. From Small Beginnings

3. Growing and Changing

4. Craftsmanship and Technology

5. On the Way to the Ear

6. The End of the Journey

1972 Geoffrey G. Gouriet Ripples in the Ether: The Science of Radio Communication[9] 1. How It All Began

2. Getting Rid of the Wires

3. The Sound of Broadcasting

4. Pictures With and Without Wires

5. But Electrons aren't Coloured!

6. Vision of the Future

1973 戴維·阿滕伯勒 The Language of Animals 1. Beware!

2. Be Mine

3. Parents and Children

4. Simple Signs and Complicated Communications

5. Foreign Languages

6. Animal Language, Human Language

1974 Eric Laithwaite The Engineer Through the Looking Glass 1. Looking Glass House

2. Tweedledum and Tweedledee

3. Jam Yesterday, Jam Tomorrow

4. The Jabberwock

5. The Time has come the Walrus said

6. It's my own Invention

1975 Heinz Wolff Signals from the Interior 1. You as an engine

2. Pumps pipes and flows

3. Spikes and waves

4. Probes, sondes and sounds

5. Looking through your skin

6. Signals from the mind

1976 乔治·波特 The Natural History of a Sunbeam[10] 1. First Light

2. Light and Life

3. A Leaf from Nature

4. Candles from the Sun

5. Making Light Work

6. Survival Under the Sun

1977 卡尔·萨根 The Planets 1. The Earth as a Planet

2. The Outer Solar System and Life

3. The History of Mars

4. Mars before Viking

5. Mars after Viking

6. Planetary Systems Beyond Our Sun

1978 Erik Christopher Zeeman Mathematics into Pictures 1. Linking and Knotting

2. Numbers and Geometry

3. Infinity and Perspective

4. Games and Evolution

5. Waves and Music

6. Catastrophe and Psychology

1979 Eric M. Rogers Atoms for Engineering Minds: A Circus of Experiments[11] 1. Getting to Know Atoms

2. Molecules in Motion

3. Electrified Atoms

4. Atoms that Explode

5. Atoms and Energy

6. Seeing Atoms at Last

1980 大卫·奇尔顿·菲利浦斯
马克斯·佩鲁茨演讲了第5节
The Chicken, the Egg and the Molecules 1. What are chickens made of?

2. Machine tools of life

3. Muscle power

4. Eggs, genes and proteins

5. Haemoglobin: the breathing molecule

6. Molecules at work

1981 Reginald Victor Jones From Magna Carta to Microchip[12] 1. Principles, Standards and Methods

2. The Measurement of Time

3. More and More About Less and Less

4. Onwards to the Stars

5. Measurement and Navigation in War

6. Some Impacts of Measurement on Life: And Can We Take it too Far?

1982 Colin Blakemore Common Sense[13] 1. Making Sense

2. The Sound of Silence

3. The Sixth Sense - and the Rest

4. Show Me the Way to Go Home

5. Vive la différence

6. Enchanted Loom

1983 Leonard Maunder Machines in Motion[14] 1. Driving Forces

2. Gathering Momentum

3. Vibration

4. Under Control

5. Fluids and Flight

6. Living Machines

1984 沃尔特·博德默尔 The Message of the Genes[15] 1. We're All Different

2. The Spice of Life

3. Genetic Engineering

4. Bodies and Antibodies

5. Normal Cells and Cancer Cells

6. When Will Pigs Have Wings?

1985 John David Pye Communicating[16] 1. No Man is an Island

2. Animal Talk

3. The Bionic Bat

4. The Pace of Technology

5. The Integrated Body

6. Computers

1986 刘易斯·沃尔珀特 Frankenstein's Quest: Development of Life[17] 1. First Take an Egg...

2. The Medium and the Message

3. The Right Stuff

4. Genes and Flies

5. Chain of Command

6. Growing Up and Growing Old

1987 John Meurig Thomas and David Phillips Crystals and Lasers 1. Introducing the characters

2. The architecture of crystals

3. Semiconductors, superconductors and catalysts

4. Constructing a laser

5. Applications of lasers

6. Crystals, lasers and the human body

1988 Gareth Roberts The Home of the Future[18] 1. Appliance Science

2. Home, Safe Home

3. Electronics for Pleasure

4. Home, Smart Home

5. Mixers, Meters and Molecules

1989 Charles Taylor Exploring Music[19] 1. What Is Music?

2. The Essence of an Instrument

3. Science, Strings and Symphonies

4. Technology, Trumpets and Tunes

5. Scales, Synthesisers and Samplers

1990 Malcolm Longair Origins[20] 1. The Grand Design

2. The Birth of the Stars

3. The Origin of Quasars

4. The Origin of the Galaxies

5. The Origin of the Universe

1991 理查德·道金斯 Growing Up in the Universe 1. Waking Up in the Universe

2. Designed and Designoid Objects

3. Climbing Mount Improbable

4. The Ultraviolet Garden

5. The Genesis of Purpose

1992 Charles J. M. Stirling Our World Through the Looking Glass 1. Man in the Mirror

2. Narwhals, Palindromes and Chesterfield Station

3. The Handed Molecule

4. Symmetry, Sensation and Sex

5. In the Hands of Giants

1993 Frank Close The Cosmic Onion 1. A is for Atoms

2. To the Centre of the Sun

3. Invaders from Outer Space

4. Anti-Matter Matters

5. An Hour to Make the Universe

1994 苏珊·格林菲尔德 Journey to the Centre of the Brain[21][22] 1. The Electric Ape

2. Through a Glass Darkly

3. Bubble Bubble Toil and Trouble

4. The Seven Ages of the Brain

5. The Mind's I

1995 James Jackson Planet Earth, An Explorer's Guide 1. On the Edge of the World

2. Secrets of the Deep

3. Volcanoes: Melting the Earth

4. The Puzzle of the Continents

5. Waterworld

1996 Simon Conway Morris The History in our Bones[23] 1. Staring into the Abyss

2. The Fossils Come Alive

3. The Great Dyings: Life after Death

4. Innovations And Novelty

5. Feet on the Ground, Head in the Stars: The History of Man

1997 艾恩·史都華 The Magical Maze 1. Sunflowers and Snowflakes

2. The Pattern of Tiny Feet

3. Outrageous Fortune

4. Chaos and Cauliflowers

5. Fearful Symmetry

1998 Nancy Rothwell Staying Alive 1. Sense and Sensitivity

2. Fats and figures

3. Chilling out

4. Times of our lives

5. Pushing the limits

1999 Neil F. Johnson Arrows of Time[24] 1. Back to the Future

2. Catching the Waves

3. The Quantum Leap

4. Edge of Chaos

5. Shaping the Future

2000 Kevin Warwick Rise of the Robots[25] 1. Anatomy of an Android

2. Things That Think

3. Remote Robots

4. Bionic Bodies

5. I, Robot

Channel 4
2001 约翰·苏尔斯顿 The Secrets of Life[26] 1. What is life?

2. How do I grow?

3. What am I?

4. Can we fix it?

5. Future of life?

2002 Tony Ryan Smart Stuff[27] 1. The Spider that Spun a Suspension Bridge

2. The Trainer That Ran Over The World

3. The Phone that Shrank the Planet

4. The Plaster that Stretches Life

5. The Ice Cream that Will Freeze Granny

2003 Monica Grady Voyage in Space and Time[28] 1. Blast Off

2. Mission to Mars

3. Planet Patrol

4. Collision Course

5. Anybody Out There?

2004 Lloyd Peck Antarctica[28] 1. Ice People

2. Ice Life

3. Ice World

2005 John Krebs The Truth About Food 1. The ape that cooks

2. Yuck or yummy?

3. You are what you eat

4. When food goes wrong

5. Food for the future

Channel Five
2006 马库斯·杜·索托伊 The Num8er My5teries[29] 1. The curious incident of the never-ending numbers

2. The quest to predict the future

3. The story of the elusive shapes

4. The case of the uncrackable code

5. The secret of the winning streak

2007 Hugh Montgomery Back from the Brink: The Science of Survival 1. Peak Performance

2. Completely Stuffed

3. Grilled and Chilled

4. Fight, Flight and Fright

5. Luck, Genes and Stupidity

2008 Christopher Bishop Hi-tech Trek 1. Breaking the Speed Limit

2. Chips with Everything

3. The Ghost in the Machine

4. Untangling the Web

5. Digital Intelligence

2009 Sue Hartley The 300-Million-Year War 1. Plant Wars

2. The Animals Strike Back

3. Talking Trees

4. Dangerous to Delicious

5. Weapons of the Future

More4
2010 Mark Miodownik Size Matters 1. Why Elephants Can't Dance but Hamsters Can Skydive

2. Why Chocolate Melts and Jet Planes Don't

3. Why Mountains Are So Small

BBC Four
2011 Bruce Hood Meet Your Brain[30] 1. What's in your head?

2. Who's in charge here anyway?

3. Are you thinking what I'm thinking?

2012 Peter Wothers The Modern Alchemist 1. Air: the elixir of life

2. Water: the fountain of youth

3. Earth: the philosopher's stone

2013 Alison Woollard Life Fantastic 1. Where do I come from?

2. Am I a Mutant?

3. Could I live forever?

2014 Danielle George Sparks will fly: How to Hack your Home 1. The light bulb moment

2. Making contact

3. A new revolution

2015 Kevin Fong How to survive in space 1. Lift off!

2. Life in Orbit

3. The next frontier

2016 Saiful Islam Supercharged: Fuelling the future 1. Let there be light!

2. People Power

3. Fully charged

2017 Sophie Scott The Language of Life 1. Say it with Sound

2. Silent Messages

3. The Word

2018 Alice Roberts

Aoife McLysaght

Who am I?[31] 1. Where Do I Come From?

2. What Makes Me Human?

3. What Makes Me, Me?

2019 Hannah Fry Secrets and Lies: The Hidden Power of Maths[32] 1. How to Get Lucky

2. How to Bend the Rules

3. How Can We All Win?

2020 Christopher Jackson

Helen Czerski

Tara Shine

Planet Earth: A user's guide[33]

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