James Scott Prize Lectureship

The James Scott Prize Lectureship is given every four years by the Royal Society of Edinburgh for a lecture on the fundamental concepts of Natural Philosophy. The prize was established in 1918 as a memorial to James Scott by trustees of his estate.^[1]

Years: Recipient	Lecture Title
1918-1922: Alfred North Whitehead[2]	The Relatedness of Nature (delivered 5 June 1922)
1922-1927: Joseph Larmor[3]	The Grasp of Mind on Nature (delivered 4 July 1927)
1927-1930: Niels Bohr[4][5]	Philosophical Aspects of Atomic Theory (delivered 26 May 1930)
1930-1933: Arnold Sommerfeld[3]	Ways to the Knowledge of Nature (delivered 1 May 1933)
1933-1938: P. A. M. Dirac[3][4]	The Relation between Mathematics and Physics (delivered 6 February 1939)
1940-1943: Edward Arthur Milne[4]	Fundamental Concepts of Natural Philosophy
1945-1948: Herbert Dingle[6]	The Nature of Scientific Philosophy (delivered 5 July 1948)
1955-1958: C.D. Broad[7]	Some Remarks on Change, Continuity, and Discontinuity (delivered 11 November 1957)
1958-1961: Herbert Butterfield[8]	The Place of the Scientific Revolution in the History of Thought
1960-1963: Hermann Bondi[9]	?
1963-1966: William Lawrence Bragg[10]	The Spirit of Science [11] (delivered 3 July 1967)
1966-1970: Karl Popper[12]	Conjectural Knowledge: My Solution of the Problem of Induction (delivered 7 June 1971)
1970-1974: Nicholas Kurti[13]	Meditations on Heat and Cold (date delivered 25 October 1976)
1974-1979: D.W. Sciama[14]	The Beginning and End of the Universe (delivered 7 June 1982)
1984-1987: W. Cochran[15]	?
1993-1996: Peter Higgs[1]	?
1997-2000: Roger Penrose[1]	?
2001-2004: Michael Berry[1]	Making Light of Mathematics Archived 25 September 2006 at the Wayback Machine (delivered 9 December 2002)
2005-2008: Stephen M. Barnett[16]	Security, Insecurity, Paranoia and Quantum Mechanics (delivered 4 February 2008)