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Plastic electronics: the science and application of molecular electronic materials and devices
Professor Donal Bradley CBE FRS
Prize lecture: Bakerian Prize Lecture
02 March 2010, 60 minutes
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The secret mathematicians
Professor Marcus du Sautoy
Prize lecture: Michael Faraday prize lecture
10 February 2010, 60 minutes
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The great ideas of biology
Sir Paul Nurse FRS
Public event
08 February 2010, 60 minutes
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Seeing Further – The Story of Science and the Royal Society
Melvyn Bragg with Bill Bryson, Maggie Gee, Richard Holmes and Ian Stewart
Public event
28 January 2010, 60 minutes
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The eerie silence: are we alone in the universe?
Professor Paul Davies
Public event
26 January 2010, 64 minutes
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Geoengineering: a brave new world? Panel Discussion
Curated by Professor John Shepherd FRS with speakers Professor Brian Launder FREng FRS, Dr David Santillo, Professor Corinne Le Quéré, and Professor Steve Rayner
Public event
19 January 2010, 62 minutes
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InterAcademy Panel Address by the Rt Hon David Milliband MP, Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs
David Miliband MP
Other event: InterAcademy Panel on Biodiversity
12 January 2010, 33 minutes
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Science not stamp collecting – the importance of botany from 1759 to 2059
Professor Stephen Hopper
Public event: Arranged in collaboration with Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew to celebrate their 250th anniversary in 2009.
01 December 2009, 60 minutes
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Anniversary Address 2009
Lord Rees of Ludlow PRS
Other event: Anniversary Address
30 November 2009, 30 minutes
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Reprogramming the code of life
Dr Jason Chin
Prize lecture: Francis Crick Lecture
26 November 2009, 60 minutes
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Mathematical curiosities and treasures from Professor Stewart’s cabinet
Professor Ian Stewart FRS
Public event
05 November 2009, 63 minutes
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Surviving pandemics: a pathogen’s perspective
Professor Sunetra Gupta
Prize lecture: Rosalind Franklin Award
02 November 2009, 63 minutes
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The Lilliput laboratory: chemistry & biology on the small scale
Professor Andrew de Mello
Prize lecture: Clifford Paterson Prize Lecture 2009
29 October 2009, 65 minutes
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The last 2 million years of human evolution
Professor Christopher Stringer FRS
Public event
20 October 2009, 70 minutes
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Cognitive enhancing drugs: neuroethical issues
Professor Barbara Sahakian
Public event
13 October 2009, 67 minutes
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Fossils, fact and fiction
Tracy Chevalier FRSL in conversation with Dr Richard Fortey FRS, Chaired by Dr Alice Roberts
Public event: In association with the Royal Society of Literature
05 October 2009, 58 minutes
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Seeing the invisible: observing the dark side of the universe
Dr Sarah Bridle
Public event: Part of Astronomy: Capturing light and dark
01 October 2009, 60 minutes
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Nanoscience or nanotechnology: what is likely in the next 5 years?
Professor Peter Dobson
Other event: Policy Lab event
09 September 2009, 23 minutes
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Multi-field problems involving multi-fracturing solids and particulate media
Professor David Owen FREng FRS
New Fellows Seminar
09 July 2009, 15 minutes
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Complex Quantum Systems and Number Theory
Professor Jonathan Keating FRS
New Fellows Seminar
09 July 2009, 17 minutes
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Practical assessments of fracture in metallic components
Professor Robert Ainsworth FRS
New Fellows Seminar
09 July 2009, 15 minutes
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Chromodynamics for Colliders
Dr Keith Ellis FRS
New Fellows Seminar
09 July 2009, 14 minutes
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From Radiative Transfer Theory to Fast Algorithms for Cell Phones
Professor Thomas Kailath ForMemRS
New Fellows Seminar
09 July 2009, 20 minutes
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Artificial Atoms for Quantum Manipulation
Professor Maurice Skolnick FRS
New Fellows Seminar
09 July 2009, 16 minutes
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Where engineering, economics and psychology meet
Professor Ross Anderson FRS
New Fellows Seminar
09 July 2009, 15 minutes
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To grow or not to grow?
Professor Nicholas Harberd FRS
New Fellows Seminar
09 July 2009, 16 minutes
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The Evolution of Cities and City Plans
Professor Michael Batty CBE FBA FRS
New Fellows Seminar
09 July 2009, 18 minutes
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Life in Earth, heavy oil and cleaning the end of the fossil fuel era
Professor Stephen Larter FRS
New Fellows Seminar
09 July 2009, 15 minutes
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The Malt Lymphoma Story
Professor Peter Isaacson FRS
New Fellows Seminar
09 July 2009, 16 minutes
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Gold Catalysis
Professor Graham Hutchings FRS
New Fellows Seminar
09 July 2009, 14 minutes
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Science and Technology policy in the Obama Administration
Professor John P Holdren ForMemRS
New Fellows Seminar
09 July 2009, 34 minutes
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From fins to limbs
Professor Jennifer Clack FRS
New Fellows Seminar
09 July 2009, 14 minutes
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Shakers, waltzers and whirlers: fancy mice and deafness
Professor Karen Steel FRS
New Fellows Seminar
09 July 2009, 16 minutes
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Checkpoints in the immune response to prevent autoimmune disease
Professor Christopher Goodnow FRS
New Fellows Seminar
09 July 2009, 19 minutes
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The genetic control of programmed cell death in the nematode Caenorhabditis Elegans
Professor Robert Horvitz ForMemRS
New Fellows Seminar
09 July 2009, 26 minutes
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Using brain imaging to decode mental states
Professor Richard Passingham FRS
New Fellows Seminar
09 July 2009, 17 minutes
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Understanding hearing through genetic engineering
Professor Guy Richardson FRS
New Fellows Seminar
09 July 2009, 16 minutes
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PKS Enzymes from Fungi: Protein Machines that Build Complex Natural Products
Professor John Vederas FRS
New Fellows Seminar
09 July 2009, 14 minutes
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A Prohormone Theory and its Dendrites
Professor Michel Chrétien OC FRS
New Fellows Seminar
09 July 2009, 15 minutes
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What is Web Science and why is it important?
Professor Dame Wendy Hall DBE FREng FRS
New Fellows Seminar
08 July 2009, 13 minutes
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Getting it right: solving real world problems using quantum mechanics
Professor Jonathan Tennyson FRS
New Fellows Seminar
08 July 2009, 14 minutes
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Are data singular or is it plural?
Professor Peter Buneman FRS
New Fellows Seminar
08 July 2009, 15 minutes
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Writing fast with any muscle
Professor David MacKay FRS
New Fellows Seminar
08 July 2009, 20 minutes
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The Earth's Changing Energy Balance
Professor Keith Shine FRS
New Fellows Seminar
08 July 2009, 17 minutes
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Observation of flavour change for solar neutrinos
Professor Arthur McDonald FRS
New Fellows Seminar
08 July 2009, 17 minutes
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Physics and applications of organic semiconductors
Professor Henning Sirringhaus FRS
New Fellows Seminar
08 July 2009, 16 minutes
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The world in eleven dimensions
Professor Michael Duff FRS
New Fellows Seminar
08 July 2009, 16 minutes
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Views from the Poles of the Dividing Cell
Professor David Glover FRS
New Fellows Seminar
08 July 2009, 12 minutes
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Physical Chemistry in the Laser Era
Professor Michael Ashfold FRS
New Fellows Seminar
08 July 2009, 14 minutes
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Type 1 diabetes inheritance explained, but how do the susceptibility genes affect human physiology?
Professor John Todd FRS
New Fellows Seminar
08 July 2009, 16 minutes
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Genetic approaches to pain mechanisms
Professor John Wood FRS
New Fellows Seminar
08 July 2009, 12 minutes
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Crop immunity to fungal rust diseases: a real bread winner
Dr Jeff Ellis FRS
New Fellows Seminar
08 July 2009, 17 minutes
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Genetic analysis of protein deposition in neurodegeneration
Professor John Hardy FRS
New Fellows Seminar
08 July 2009, 16 minutes
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Evolution of Emerging Infections
Professor Angela McLean FRS
New Fellows Seminar
08 July 2009, 17 minutes
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Gene Expression and Organogenesis in the Immune System
Dr Dimitris Kioussis FRS
New Fellows Seminar
08 July 2009, 16 minutes
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The workings of microbes-small machines in a small world
Professor Martin Buck FRS
New Fellows Seminar
08 July 2009, 17 minutes
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Many chlorophylls make light work
Professor Neil Hunter FRS
New Fellows Seminar
08 July 2009, 18 minutes
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Making the Tiniest Machines
Professor David Leigh FRS
New Fellows Seminar
08 July 2009, 19 minutes
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Molecular aspects of protein phosphorylation and signal transduction – Never a dull protein kinase
Dr Brian Hemmings FRS
New Fellows Seminar
08 July 2009, 11 minutes
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Is the Great Barrier Reef on Death Row?
Dr J.E.N. "Charlie" Veron
Other event: Joint event with Zoological Society of London
06 July 2009, 61 minutes
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Particle physics and the mysteries of the early Universe
Dr Cristina Lazzeroni
Public event: Summer Science Exhibition
30 June 2009, 41 minutes
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"The Great British Refurb": Housing for a low carbon energy future
Professor Tadj Oreszczyn
Public event: Part of the Story of London Festival
09 June 2009, 68 minutes
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The new biology of ageing
Professor Linda Partridge FRS
Prize lecture: Croonian Lecture
26 May 2009, 60 minutes
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Making choices to conserve the world’s species: what, where and when?
Professor Georgina Mace FRS, Dr Jonathan Baillie, Professor Hugh Possingham and Dr Mark Avery, chaired by Sir John Lawton CBE FRS
Public event
19 May 2009, 65 minutes
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The origins of flowers
Sir Peter Crane FRS
Public event
12 May 2009, 64 minutes
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Two Cultures: 50 years on
Professor Stefan Collini FBA, Rt. Hon John Denham MP, Sian Ede, Professor Marcus du Sautoy. Chaired by Melvyn Bragg, Lord Bragg of Wigton.
Public event: A public panel discussion as part of the Royal Society's President's Programme. Supported by Prospect Magazine.
05 May 2009, 70 minutes
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Climate change and extinction
Dr Richard Leakey FRS
Public event
27 April 2009, 67 minutes
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The social function of history: policy, history and twentieth-century science
Professor David Edgerton
Prize lecture: Wilkins-Bernal-Medawar Prize Lecture
20 April 2009, 60 minutes
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Mathematics in the real world: From brain tumours to saving marriages
Professor James Murray FRS
Prize lecture: Bakerian Prize Lecture
26 March 2009, 66 minutes
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Restoring Science to its Rightful Place
Professor Harold Varmus ForMemRS
Other event: Policy Lab event
25 March 2009, 30 minutes
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Talent and Autism
Uta Frith and Daniel Glaser with Francesca Happé, Mark Lythgoe, John Sloboda, Joan Freeman
Public event: An evening discussion convened jointly by the British Academy and the Royal Society
12 March 2009, 93 minutes
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Every picture tells a story
Professor John Barrow FRS
Prize lecture: Michael Faraday Prize
24 February 2009, 70 minutes
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What’s going on Underground? Tunnelling into the Future
Professor Robert Mair FREng FRS
Public event
18 February 2009, 62 minutes
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A molecular window into speech and language
Dr Simon Fisher
Prize lecture: Francis Crick Lecture
02 December 2008, 76 minutes
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2008 Anniversary address
Lord Rees of Ludlow
Other event: Anniversary Address
01 December 2008, 27 minutes
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Mapping memory: the brains behind remembering
Professor Eleanor A. Maguire
Prize lecture: Rosalind Franklin Award
25 November 2008, 61 minutes
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Lost in history
Adriano Shaplin in conversation with Simon Schaffer
Public event
24 November 2008, 66 minutes
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Proof-reading: Telling stories with numbers, telling stories with words
Mark Haddon in conversation with Marcus du Sautoy
Public event: In association with the Royal Society of Literature
10 November 2008, 63 minutes
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Royal Society Pfizer Award 2008 film
Featuring Dr Enock Matovu
Award ceremony: Pfizer Award
04 November 2008, 7 minutes
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Royal Society Pfizer Award 2008 award ceremony
With Lord Rees PRS, Dr Enock Matovu
Award ceremony: Pfizer Award
04 November 2008, 30 minutes
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In Conversation with Dr Hiba Mohamed
Dr Hiba Mohamed in conversation with Sir Magdi Yacoub FRS
Public event: Pfizer Award
03 November 2008, 63 minutes
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Taming the Quanta
Professor Martin Plenio
Prize lecture: Clifford Paterson Lecture
14 October 2008, 63 minutes
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In conversation with Sir Martin Evans
Sir Martin Evans FRS
Public event
01 October 2008, 56 minutes
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Quantum interference between independent particles and generation of entanglement
Professor Girish Agarwal FRS
New Fellows Seminar
10 July 2008, 14 minutes
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Natural killer (NK) cells: Balancing the needs for defence and reproduction
Professor Peter Parham FRS
New Fellows Seminar
10 July 2008, 16 minutes
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Crack-wake bridging and design of materials for toughness
Professor Yiu-Wing Mai FRS
New Fellows Seminar
10 July 2008, 18 minutes
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Human Papillomavirus (HPV) infection and the prevention of cervical cancer
Sir Leszek Borysiewicz KBE FRS
New Fellows Seminar
10 July 2008, 19 minutes
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Imaging the activity of individual calcium channels in intact cells: you can observe a lot just by watching
Professor Ian Parker FRS
New Fellows Seminar
10 July 2008, 16 minutes
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Regular dynamics in physics and mathematics
Dr Evgeny Sklyanin FRS
New Fellows Seminar
10 July 2008, 18 minutes
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The standard model of cosmology: is it correct?
Professor Jeremiah Ostriker ForMemRS
New Fellows Seminar
10 July 2008, 19 minutes
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Pressure: a new dimension in the physical sciences
Dr Ho-kwang (David) Mao ForMemRS
New Fellows Seminar
10 July 2008, 18 minutes
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Chemical interaction between ocean and atmosphere
Professor Peter Liss CBE FRS
New Fellows Seminar
10 July 2008, 16 minutes
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Nature and nurture: vocal communication in birds and monkeys
Professor Peter Marler ForMemRS
New Fellows Seminar
10 July 2008, 17 minutes
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Electrical signalling in the brain
Professor William A Catterall ForMemRS
New Fellows Seminar
10 July 2008, 16 minutes
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Signals for activation of plant defence mechanisms: networking in a hostile environment
Professor Chris Lamb FRS
New Fellows Seminar
10 July 2008, 18 minutes
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What goes wrong in autoimmune disease?
Sir John Bell FRS
New Fellows Seminar
10 July 2008, 18 minutes
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Parasites and the unstable dynamics of wild host populations
Professor Peter Hudson FRS
New Fellows Seminar
10 July 2008, 13 minutes
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What are infinite dimensional manifolds and how will they affect your next MRI?
Professor David Mumford ForMemRS
New Fellows Seminar
10 July 2008, 17 minutes
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Arithmetic L-functions
Professor Mark Kisin FRS
New Fellows Seminar
10 July 2008, 17 minutes
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Bones from bench to bedside. How water softeners became drugs
Professor Graham Russell FRS
New Fellows Seminar
10 July 2008, 18 minutes
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Randomness in computations, a sentimental journey
Professor Michael Rabin ForMemRS
New Fellows Seminar
10 July 2008, 24 minutes
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The Gatsby Foundation's support for science and technology
Lord Sainsbury of Turville FRS
New Fellows Seminar
10 July 2008, 15 minutes
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MicroRNAs: a new dimension in gene regulation
Dr Stephen Cohen FRS
New Fellows Seminar
10 July 2008, 15 minutes
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Catalysis by transition metal complexes
Professor Richard Schrock ForMemRS
New Fellows Seminar
10 July 2008, 13 minutes
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Why some cancers become resistant to therapy: Revisiting Darwinian Selection
Professor Alan Ashworth FRS
New Fellows Seminar
10 July 2008, 16 minutes
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Thought experiments in climate and paleo-climate
Professor John Marshall FRS
New Fellows Seminar
10 July 2008, 21 minutes
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Molecular recognition
Professor Christopher Hunter FRS
New Fellows Seminar
09 July 2008, 12 minutes
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Ferroplasma acidiphilum: a thus far unique form of life with an Fe-protein-dominated cellular machinery
Professor Kenneth Timmis FRS
New Fellows Seminar
09 July 2008, 15 minutes
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Bio-inspired electronics – towards personalised healthcare
Professor Christofer Toumazou FRS
New Fellows Seminar
09 July 2008, 16 minutes
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Exploration of cancer cell genomes
Professor Michael Stratton FRS
New Fellows Seminar
09 July 2008, 15 minutes
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The moduli space of Riemann surfaces – Mumford's conjecture and beyond
Professor Ulrike Tillmann FRS
New Fellows Seminar
09 July 2008, 15 minutes
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Their Embryon atoms: Einstein's universe and how we explore it
Professor Brian Foster OBE FRS
New Fellows Seminar
09 July 2008, 14 minutes
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Atomic bricklaying – chemistry to control extended structures
Professor Matthew Rosseinsky FRS
New Fellows Seminar
09 July 2008, 15 minutes
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Experimental studies of human memory and ageing
Professor Fergus Craik FRS
New Fellows Seminar
09 July 2008, 15 minutes
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A third class of retinal photoreceptor
Professor Russell G Foster FRS
New Fellows Seminar
09 July 2008, 22 minutes
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Towards a nuclear fusion power plant
Professor Alexander Bradshaw CBE FRS
New Fellows Seminar
09 July 2008, 17 minutes
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From cells to embryo: the magic of gastrulation
Professor Claudio Stern FRS
New Fellows Seminar
09 July 2008, 16 minutes
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The HSP90 Molecular Chaperone: Structural biology of HSP90 - a molecular target for cancer therapy
Professor Laurence Pearl FRS
New Fellows Seminar
09 July 2008, 16 minutes
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The universality of quantum computation, and its implications
Professor David Deutsch FRS
New Fellows Seminar
09 July 2008, 16 minutes
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Disruption on the highways of cell communication
Professor Dario Alessi FRS
New Fellows Seminar
09 July 2008, 16 minutes
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Photosynthetic bacteria, toxic oceans and the great mass extinction
Professor Roger Summons FRS
New Fellows Seminar
09 July 2008, 15 minutes
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Ferroelectric memories
Professor James Scott FRS
New Fellows Seminar
09 July 2008, 16 minutes
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A brain system building intelligent behaviour
Professor John Duncan FRS
New Fellows Seminar
09 July 2008, 19 minutes
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Electro-deoxidation - a sustainable route to metals, alloys and oxygen?
Professor Derek Fray FRS
New Fellows Seminar
09 July 2008, 14 minutes
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Do plants have a memory?
Professor Barbara Hohn ForMemRS
New Fellows Seminar
09 July 2008, 15 minutes
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How to control the immune response to infection to minimise damage to the host
Dr Anne O’Garra FRS
New Fellows Seminar
09 July 2008, 17 minutes
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Vibrational Circular Dichroism (VCD) spectroscopy: a new technique for the determination of the stereochemistries of chiral molecules
Professor Philip Stephens FRS
New Fellows Seminar
09 July 2008, 18 minutes
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First principles density functional theory calculations
Professor Michael Payne FRS
New Fellows Seminar
09 July 2008, 14 minutes
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Climate change: what can space teach us about our own planet?'
Maggie Aderin
Public event: Summer Science Exhibition
02 July 2008, 47 minutes
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Royal Society Prizes for Science Books 2008 award ceremony
Compered by Sonali Gudka with Martin Rees PRS, Jonathan Ashmore and Nigel Chambers
Award ceremony: Royal Society Prizes for Science Books
16 June 2008, 25 minutes
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Stumbling on happiness
Daniel Gilbert
Public event: Royal Society Prizes for Science Books
12 June 2008, 79 minutes
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Plant and animal communication
Professor John Pickett FRS
Prize lecture: Croonian Lecture
03 June 2008, 68 minutes
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We are what we remember: memory and the biological basis of individuality
Eric R. Kandel
Public event: Royal Society Prizes for Science Books
22 April 2008, 83 minutes
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Hard questions – Contemporary art and the obsession with science
Siân Ede
Prize lecture: Wilkins-Bernal-Medawar Lecture
10 April 2008, 63 minutes
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From proteins to drugs
Professor Mark Pepys FRS FmedSci
Prize lecture: GlaxoSmithKline Prize
03 April 2008, 68 minutes
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Finding Moonshine: A Mathematician’s journey through symmetry
Professor Marcus du Sautoy
Public event
21 February 2008, 62 minutes
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Raman Microscopy, Pigments and the Arts/Science Interface
Professor Robin Clark CNZM FRS
Prize lecture: Bakerian Lecture
07 February 2008, 76 minutes
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The House of Wisdom and the legacy of Arabic Science
Professor Jim Al-Khalili
Prize lecture: Michael Faraday Prize
30 January 2008, 60 minutes
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Decoding consciousness
Professor Geraint Rees
Prize lecture: Francis Crick Lecture
05 December 2007, 66 minutes
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Touchdown on Titan
Professor John Zarnecki
Public event
03 December 2007, 81 minutes
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2007 Anniversary address
Lord Rees of Ludlow
Other event: Anniversary Address
30 November 2007, 36 minutes
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Nature and nurture in brain function: clues from synesthesia and phantom limbs
Professor VS Ramachandran,
Public event
28 November 2007, 80 minutes
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Washing dirty lab coats on the page and the stage
Carl Djerassi
Public event
14 November 2007, 76 minutes
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The uses of infinity: a philosopher looks at emergent phenomena in physics
Dr Jeremy Butterfield
Prize lecture: Wilkins-Bernal-Medawar Lecture
07 November 2007, 61 minutes
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Royal Society Pfizer Award 2007 video
Award ceremony: Pfizer Award
05 November 2007, 8 minutes
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Climate change on the living Earth
Professor James Lovelock CH CBE FRS
Public event
29 October 2007, 65 minutes
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Thinking like a vegetable: how plants decide what to do
Professor Ottoline Leyser
Prize lecture: Rosalind Franklin Award
24 October 2007, 62 minutes
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Royal Society and Académie des sciences Microsoft Award 2007 award ceremony
Award ceremony: Microsoft Award
16 October 2007, 88 minutes
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Behaving badly
Professor Uta Frith FRS, John Banville, James Blair, Terrie Moffitt, Fay Weldon
Public event
15 October 2007, 90 minutes
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Mind-reading machines: technologies with People Sense
Dr Rana el Kaliouby
Public event
27 September 2007, 69 minutes
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Deep sea discoveries: Arctic Coral Reefs?
Dr Jason Hall-Spencer
Public event: Summer Science Exhibition
02 July 2007, 33 minutes
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The LHC: or how the world’s largest experiment can investigate matter’s smallest constituents
Dr Tara Shears
Public event
21 June 2007, 70 minutes
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Brain development and brain repair: Molecules and mechanisms that control neuronal wiring
Dr Marc Tessier-Lavigne FRS
Prize lecture: Ferrier Lecture
18 June 2007, 72 minutes
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Royal Society Prizes for Science Books 2007 – ceremony summary video
Lord Martin Rees PRS, Christine McGourty, Colin Pillinger, Eleanor Updale and others
Award ceremony: Book Prize
15 May 2007, 12 minutes
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Engineered zinc finger proteins (ZFPs) for the regulation of gene expression
Sir Aaron Klug OM FRS
Prize lecture: Croonian Lecture
03 May 2007, 68 minutes
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From sled dogs to rockets: What is everyone doing in the Antarctic and the Arctic?
Paul Rose
Public event: Held in support of International Polar Year
24 April 2007, 80 minutes
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The dark side of the universe
Professor Joseph Silk FRS
Prize lecture: Bakerian Lecture
22 March 2007, 65 minutes
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Regional climate projections
Professor Bruce Hewitson
Discussion meeting: The science of climate change: A Royal Society showcase of the IPCC 4th Assessment Working Group 1 Report
02 March 2007, 42 minutes
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Panel perceptions on the importance of the report for the science agenda, notable advances in the science, how to take the science forward and science gaps.
Chaired by Professor Brian Hoskins FRS, Dr Ann Henderson-Sellers, Dr Frank Raes, Dr Carlos Nobre, and Mr Halldor Thorgeirsson
Discussion meeting: The science of climate change: A Royal Society showcase of the IPCC 4th Assessment Working Group 1 Report
02 March 2007, 64 minutes
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Closing remarks
Sir David King FRS
Discussion meeting: The science of climate change: A Royal Society showcase of the IPCC 4th Assessment Working Group 1 Report
02 March 2007, 25 minutes
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Understanding and attributing climate change (Ch 9)
Dr Francis Zwiers
Discussion meeting: The science of climate change: A Royal Society showcase of the IPCC 4th Assessment Working Group 1 Report
02 March 2007, 44 minutes
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Projecting Climate Towards the 22nd Century: From Consensus to Conclusion
Jonathan Gregory for Thomas Stocker
Discussion meeting: The science of climate change: A Royal Society showcase of the IPCC 4th Assessment Working Group 1 Report
02 March 2007, 46 minutes
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Climate models and their evaluation
Dr Richard Wood
Discussion meeting: The science of climate change: A Royal Society showcase of the IPCC 4th Assessment Working Group 1 Report
02 March 2007, 46 minutes
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Couplings between changes in the climate system and biogeochemistry (Ch 7)
Dr Guy Brasseur
Discussion meeting: The science of climate change: A Royal Society showcase of the IPCC 4th Assessment Working Group 1 Report
02 March 2007, 49 minutes
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Paleoclimate Perspectives on Climate Change
Professor Jonathan Overpeck
Discussion meeting: The science of climate change: A Royal Society showcase of the IPCC 4th Assessment Working Group 1 Report
02 March 2007, 49 minutes
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The evolution of climate models over the last decades, and the attached uncertainty.
Dr Herve Le Treut
Discussion meeting: The science of climate change: A Royal Society showcase of the IPCC 4th Assessment Working Group 1 Report
01 March 2007, 32 minutes
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Oceanic climate and sea level changes (Ch 5)
Professor Nathan Bindoff
Discussion meeting: The science of climate change: A Royal Society showcase of the IPCC 4th Assessment Working Group 1 Report
01 March 2007, 51 minutes
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Observations: changes in snow, ice and frozen ground (Ch 4)
Professor Peter Lemke
Discussion meeting: The science of climate change: A Royal Society showcase of the IPCC 4th Assessment Working Group 1 Report
01 March 2007, 51 minutes
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Observations: Surface and atmospheric climate change (Ch 3)
Professor Phil Jones
Discussion meeting: The science of climate change: A Royal Society showcase of the IPCC 4th Assessment Working Group 1 Report
01 March 2007, 45 minutes
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Discussion session 1
Dr Susan Solomon and Dr Herve Le Treut
Discussion meeting: The science of climate change: A Royal Society showcase of the IPCC 4th Assessment Working Group 1 Report
01 March 2007, 38 minutes
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Keynote address
Ian Pearson MP
Discussion meeting: The science of climate change: A Royal Society showcase of the IPCC 4th Assessment Working Group 1 Report
01 March 2007, 25 minutes
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How humans cause global climate change
Dr Ralph Cicerone
Discussion meeting: The science of climate change: A Royal Society showcase of the IPCC 4th Assessment Working Group 1 Report
01 March 2007, 65 minutes
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Changes in atmospheric composition and radiative forcing (Ch2)
Dr Piers Forster
Discussion meeting: The science of climate change: A Royal Society showcase of the IPCC 4th Assessment Working Group 1 Report
01 March 2007, 45 minutes
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UK Launch of International Polar Year 2007-2008
Lord Martin Rees, President of the Royal Society; Dr Eric Wolff, British Antarctic Survey; Dr Corinne Le Quéré, University of East Anglia; Prof Martin Siegert, University of Edinburgh; and Prof Mark Nuttall, University of Alberta, Canada.
Other event: Held in support of International Polar Year
26 February 2007, 120 minutes
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Press conference for the UK Launch of International Polar Year 2007-2008
Other event: Held in support of International Polar Year
26 February 2007, 48 minutes
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A natural history of scientists
Dr Richard Fortey FRS
Prize lecture: Michael Faraday Prize
30 January 2007, 61 minutes
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Islam and science: beyond the troubled relationship
Ziauddin Sardar
Public event
12 December 2006, 75 minutes
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Deciphering disease: disruption on the molecular highways of cell communication
Professor Dario Alessi
Prize lecture: Francis Crick Lecture
05 December 2006, 72 minutes
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Continuing the voyages of the Endeavour
Dr Mike Griffin
Public event
01 December 2006, 56 minutes
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2006 Anniversary address
Lord Rees of Ludlow PRS
Other event: Anniversary Address
30 November 2006, 38 minutes
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Mind - the gap?
Chaired by Maggie Gee with Nicky Clayton, Doris Lessing, Will Self, Andrew Whiten
Public event: In association with the Royal Society of Literature
28 November 2006, 86 minutes
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In conversation with Michael Frayn
Michael Frayn with Professor Lisa Jardine
Public event
24 November 2006, 75 minutes
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Benjamin Franklin in Europe: electrician, academician, politician
Professor John Heilbron
Prize lecture: Wilkins-Bernal-Medawar Lecture
22 November 2006, 55 minutes
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Exchanges in science and religion
Revd Dr John Polkinghorne KBE FRS
Public event
07 November 2006, 64 minutes
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Our Nation's Future
Tony Blair MP
Other event
03 November 2006, 87 minutes
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Royal Society and Académie des Sciences Microsoft European Science award 2006

Award ceremony: Microsoft Award
03 November 2006, 25 minutes
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Constructing a nervous system: stem cells to synapses
Dr Andrea Brand
Prize lecture: Rosalind Franklin Award
30 October 2006, 58 minutes
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Stern Review on the Economics of Climage Change
Sir Nicholas Stern, with Tony Blair MP and Gordon Brown MP
Other event
30 October 2006, 79 minutes
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Science and globalisation
Alistair Darling MP
Other event
23 October 2006, 47 minutes
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The cognitive functions of rostral prefrontal cortex (Area 10)
Dr Paul Burgess
Discussion meeting: Mental processes in the human brain
17 October 2006, 45 minutes
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Discussant for day 2: Professor Tim Shallice FRS
Professor Tim Shallice FRS
Discussion meeting: Mental processes in the human brain
17 October 2006, 25 minutes
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Neurochemical modulation of fronto-striatal function: theoretical and clinical implications
Professor Trevor Robbins FRS
Discussion meeting: Mental processes in the human brain
17 October 2006, 45 minutes
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Is there a dysexecutive syndrome?
Professor Don Stuss
Discussion meeting: Mental processes in the human brain
17 October 2006, 45 minutes
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Effects of attention and emotion on conscious and unconscious processing in the normal and damaged human brain
Dr Patrik Vuilleumier
Discussion meeting: Mental processes in the human brain
17 October 2006, 45 minutes
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Decoding visual awareness
Dr Geraint Rees
Discussion meeting: Mental processes in the human brain
17 October 2006, 45 minutes
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The contribution of prefrontal cortex to cognitive control: progress toward a mechanistic understanding
Professor Jonathan Cohen
Discussion meeting: Mental processes in the human brain
17 October 2006, 45 minutes
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Beyond the sentence given - The memory, unification, and control model of language
Professor Peter Hagoort
Discussion meeting: Mental processes in the human brain
16 October 2006, 45 minutes
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Morphology, language and the brain
Professor William Marslen-Wilson
Discussion meeting: Mental processes in the human brain
16 October 2006, 45 minutes
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The reign of typicality in semantic memory: evidence from neuropsychology, brain imaging and computational modelling
Professor Karalyn Patterson
Discussion meeting: Mental processes in the human brain
16 October 2006, 45 minutes
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Why life speeds up as you get older
Douwe Draaisma
Public event: Royal Society Prizes for Science Books
16 October 2006, 61 minutes
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Neural mechanisms underlying active maintenance of task-relevant information
Professor Mark D'Esposito
Discussion meeting: Mental processes in the human brain
16 October 2006, 45 minutes
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Influences of emotion and context on memory, judgements and decision making
Professor Ray Dolan
Discussion meeting: Mental processes in the human brain
16 October 2006, 45 minutes
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The Cognitive Neuroscience of Constructive Memory: Remembering the Past and Imagining the Future
Professor Dan Schacter
Discussion meeting: Mental processes in the human brain
16 October 2006, 45 minutes
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Objects, actions, nouns and verbs: neuropsychological and neuroimaging evidence
Professor Alfonso Caramazza
Discussion meeting: Mental processes in the human brain
16 October 2006, 45 minutes
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Royal Society Pfizer Award 2006 award video

Award ceremony: Pfizer Award
10 October 2006, 13 minutes
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Pfizer Award 2006 award ceremony
Martin Rees and others
Award ceremony: Pfizer Award
10 October 2006, 19 minutes
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Structure and the living cell
Professor Iain Campbell FRS
Prize lecture: Croonian Lecture
04 October 2006, 63 minutes
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Plastic fantastic: electronics for the 21st century
Richard Friend FRS
Prize lecture: Clifford Paterson Lecture
05 June 2006, 63 minutes
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Aventis Prizes for Science Books 2006
Compered by Nick Ross
Award ceremony: Royal Society Prizes for Science Books
16 May 2006, 37 minutes
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Plagues and Parasites
Professor Nicholas White OBE
Prize lecture: GlaxoSmithKline Prize
11 May 2006, 75 minutes
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Carbon dioxide capture and geological storage
Dr Sam Holloway
Discussion meeting: Energy... for the future
11 April 2006, 33 minutes
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Assessment of the energy supply potential of engineered geothermal systems (EGS)
Professor Jeff Tester
Discussion meeting: Energy... for the future
11 April 2006, 37 minutes
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Pathways to hydrogen as an energy carrier
Professor Thorsteinn Sigfusson
Discussion meeting: Energy... for the future
11 April 2006, 26 minutes
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Discussion session 5

Discussion meeting: Energy... for the future
11 April 2006, 26 minutes
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H2 storage
Professor Pete Edwards FRS
Discussion meeting: Energy... for the future
11 April 2006, 34 minutes
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Solar energy: biological
Professor Jim Barber FRS
Discussion meeting: Energy... for the future
11 April 2006, 25 minutes
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Discussion session 6

Discussion meeting: Energy... for the future
11 April 2006, 32 minutes
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Market challenges for cleaner energy alternatives – synthetic fuels and the gas to liquids experience
George Couvaras
Discussion meeting: Energy... for the future
11 April 2006, 24 minutes
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Why creationism is wrong and evolution is right
Professor Steve Jones
Public event
11 April 2006, 72 minutes
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Discussion session 7

Discussion meeting: Energy... for the future
11 April 2006, 42 minutes
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Concluding summary
Lord May FRS
Discussion meeting: Energy... for the future
11 April 2006, 33 minutes
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Energy for a sustainable future
Sir David King FRS
Discussion meeting: Energy... for the future
10 April 2006, 44 minutes
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Marine energy - power from tides and waves
David Kerr
Discussion meeting: Energy... for the future
10 April 2006, 32 minutes
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Discussion session 1

Discussion meeting: Energy... for the future
10 April 2006, 30 minutes
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The path to fusion power
Sir Chris Llewellyn Smith FRS
Discussion meeting: Energy... for the future
10 April 2006, 31 minutes
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Fission: Plugging the gap until the potential of fusion is realised
Dr Sue Ion OBE
Discussion meeting: Energy... for the future
10 April 2006, 26 minutes
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Stabilisation wedges and the management of global carbon for the next 50 years
Professor Robert Socolow
Discussion meeting: Energy... for the future
10 April 2006, 31 minutes
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Discussion session 3

Discussion meeting: Energy... for the future
10 April 2006, 27 minutes
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Photovoltaic generation of energy, the advent of mesoscopic solar cells
Professor Michael Grätzel
Discussion meeting: Energy... for the future
10 April 2006, 30 minutes
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Demand reduction and energy efficiency
Christiane Egger
Discussion meeting: Energy... for the future
10 April 2006, 35 minutes
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Discussion session 4

Discussion meeting: Energy... for the future
10 April 2006, 24 minutes
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Discussion session 2

Discussion meeting: Energy... for the future
10 April 2006, 34 minutes
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Wind energy
Professor Bill Leithead
Discussion meeting: Energy... for the future
10 April 2006, 32 minutes
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The mesoscopic world - from plastic bags to brain disease - structural similarities in physics
Professor Athene Donald FRS
Prize lecture: Bakerian Lecture
27 March 2006, 60 minutes
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Microscopy goes cold: frozen viruses reveal their structural secrets
Dr Tony Crowther
Prize lecture: Leeuwenhoek Lecture
13 March 2006, 65 minutes
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South Africa day 2006 promotional video

Other event: International Policy/Grants
31 January 2006, 10 minutes
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Cosmic Africa
Dr Thebe Medupe
Public event
30 January 2006, 57 minutes
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A silent killer?
Professor Fran Balkwill
Prize lecture: Michael Faraday Prize
25 January 2006, 52 minutes
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The Puppet Master: How the brain controls the body
Professor Daniel Wolpert
Prize lecture: Francis Crick Lecture
08 December 2005, 68 minutes
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The quandary of the quark
Professor Christine Davies
Prize lecture: Rosalind Franklin Award
06 December 2005, 72 minutes
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2005 Anniversary Address
Lord May of Oxford FRS
Other event: Anniversary Address
30 November 2005, 49 minutes
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Einstein vs. Newton debate
Chaired by Marcus Du Sautoy, with Professor Jim Al-Khalili, Dr Mark Lythgoe, Sir John Enderby FRS, and Dr Patricia Fara.
Public event
23 November 2005, 77 minutes
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Measuring our future: the role of sustainability metrics
Professor RC Darton FREng
Prize lecture: Hartley Lecture
10 November 2005, 72 minutes
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Optical science in the fast lane
Professor Wilson Sibbett CBE FRS
Prize lecture: Clifford Paterson Lecture
27 October 2005, 68 minutes
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Beyond the Human Genome Project: Medicine in the 21st Century
Dr Eric Lander
Prize lecture: 2005 Rosenblith Lecture (National Academy of Sciences award lecture)
24 October 2005, 79 minutes
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The roots of the 'Royal' and the Scottish connection
John Gribbin
Public event
04 October 2005, 57 minutes
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The right climate for business
Lord Oxburgh of Liverpool FRS
Public event
29 June 2005, 75 minutes
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New views on human origins
Professor Chris Stringer FRS
Public event
02 June 2005, 75 minutes
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Aventis Prizes for Science Books 2005
Compered by Tanya Byron
Award ceremony: Royal Society Prizes for Science Books
12 May 2005, 45 minutes
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Adventures in vascular biology
Professor Salvador Moncada FRS
Prize lecture: Croonian Lecture
10 May 2005, 69 minutes
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Why we cooperate
Professor Martin Nowak
Public event
03 May 2005, 66 minutes
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Global warming in a chaotic climate - can we be sure?
Tim Palmer FRS and Tim Wheeler
Public event
26 April 2005, 67 minutes
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A short history of nearly everything
Bill Bryson
Public event: Royal Society Prizes for Science Books
10 March 2005, 67 minutes
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Einstein’s legacy as a scientist and icon
Lord Martin Rees FRS
Prize lecture: Michael Faraday Prize
27 January 2005, 56 minutes
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Collapse: how societies choose to fail or survive
Professor Jared Diamond
Public event
20 January 2005, 72 minutes
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Science, complexity and the nature of existence
George Ellis
Public event
09 December 2004, 63 minutes
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2004 Anniversary Address
Lord May of Oxford FRS
Other event: Anniversary Address
30 November 2004, 45 minutes
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Genes, worms and the new genetics
Julie Ahringer
Prize lecture: Francis Crick Lecture
24 November 2004, 65 minutes
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Finding the right balance: from rare gases to ribosomes
Carol Robinson FRS
Prize lecture: Rosalind Franklin Award
15 November 2004, 61 minutes
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Magnetic brain stimulation: what can it tell us about brain function?
Professor Alan Cowey FRS
Prize lecture: Ferrier Lecture
09 November 2004, 73 minutes
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A new Eden
Tim Smit
Public event
27 October 2004, 70 minutes
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Not just about numbers
John D Barrow
Public event
19 October 2004, 51 minutes
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What is quantum non-locality?
Professor Sandu Popescu
Prize lecture: Clifford Paterson Lecture
13 October 2004, 72 minutes
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Wild Reckonings - poems inspired by Rachel Carson’s "Silent Spring".
Chaired by Sian Ede, with readers including Richard Dawkins FRS, Ruth Padel, Simon Armitage, John Burnside and Maurice Riordan
Public event
05 October 2004, 65 minutes
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Exploring nanotechnologies public debate
Nick Ross, with Ann Dowling (University of Cambridge), Deidre Hutton (National Consumers Council), Doug Parr (Greenpeace),and Ian Pearson (BT Futurologist)
Public event
29 September 2004, 83 minutes
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Beauty in science and literature
Chaired by Dan Glaser with Ben Okri FRSL and Nancy Rothwell FRS
Public event: In association with the Royal Society of Literature
14 September 2004, 75 minutes
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Trends in global fisheries: implication for food security
Professor Daniel Pauly
Public event
21 July 2004, 66 minutes
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Challenges facing the human exploration of Mars
Dr David Scott
Public event
05 May 2004, 72 minutes
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Risk: food, fact and fantasy
Professor Sir John Krebs FRS
Prize lecture: Croonian Lecture
05 April 2004, 72 minutes
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Beagle 2 - the next generation - in conversation with Colin Pillinger
Colin Pillinger FRS
Public event
08 March 2004, 78 minutes
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Perception, deception and reality
Sir David Attenborough CH CVO CBE FRS
Prize lecture: Michael Faraday Prize
28 January 2004, 68 minutes
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2003 Anniversary Address
Lord May of Oxford FRS
Other event: Anniversary Address
30 November 2003, 55 minutes
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The future of the world wide web
Tim Berners-Lee FRS
Public event
22 September 2003, 85 minutes
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Nobel lives
Sir John Sulston FRS and Dr Sydney Brenner FRS
Public event
01 April 2003, 70 minutes
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To boldly go - the future of space exploration
Dr David Scott, Professor Colin Pillinger FRS and Professor David Southwood
Public event
01 October 2002, 82 minutes
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2001 Anniversary Address
Lord May of Oxford FRS
Other event: Anniversary Address
30 November 2001, 49 minutes
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Vision for knowledge: Knowledge for vision
Professor Richard Gregory
Prize lecture: Medawar Lecture
08 November 2001, 75 minutes
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Science, belief and the unbelievable
Professor Lewis Wolpert FRS
Prize lecture: Michael Faraday Prize
30 January 2001, 57 minutes
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2000 Anniversary Address
Sir Aaron Klug FRS
Other event: Anniversary Address
30 November 2000, 32 minutes
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