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.
Years: Recipient Lecture Title 1918-1922: Alfred North Whitehead The Relatedness of Nature (delivered 5 June 1922) 1922-1927: Joseph LarmorProceedings of the royal society of edinburgh, volume 60, 1939-1940, p.441 The Grasp of Mind on Nature (delivered 4 July 1927) 1927-1930: Niels Bohrpage 351 of Volume 6 of the Niels Bohr Collected Works (North-Holland Physics Publishing, 1985) Philosophical Aspects of Atomic Theory (delivered 26 May 1930) 1930-1933: Arnold Sommerfeld Ways to the Knowledge of Nature (delivered 1 May 1933) 1933-1938: P. A. M. Dirac The Relation between Mathematics and Physics (delivered 6 February 1939) 1940-1943: Edward Arthur Milne Fundamental Concepts of Natural Philosophy 1945-1948: Herbert DingleTitle: Obituary - Dingle, Herbert, Authors: Whitrow, G. J., Journal: ROYAL ASTRON. SOC. QUARTERLY JOURNAL V. 21, P. 333, 1980 The Nature of Scientific Philosophy (delivered 5 July 1948) 1955-1958: C.D. Broad Some Remarks on Change, Continuity, and Discontinuity (delivered 11 November 1957) 1958-1961: Herbert Butterfield p. 130 of the Royal Society of Edinburgh, 1783-1983, Neil Campbell, 1983 The Place of the Scientific Revolution in the History of Thought 1960-1963: Hermann BondiYear Book of the Royal Society of Edinburgh By Royal Society of Edinburgh Published by Royal Society of Edinburgh., 1983 ? 1963-1966: William Lawrence Bragg The Spirit of Science (delivered 3 July 1967) 1966-1970: Karl Popper Conjectural Knowledge: My Solution of the Problem of Induction (delivered 7 June 1971) 1970-1974: Nicholas Kurti Meditations on Heat and Cold (date delivered 25 October 1976) 1974-1979: D.W. Sciama The Beginning and End of the Universe (delivered 7 June 1982) 1984-1987: W. Cochran ? 1993-1996: Peter Higgs ? 1997-2000: Roger Penrose ? 2001-2004: Michael Berry Making Light of Mathematics (delivered 9 December 2002) 2005-2008: Stephen M. Barnett Security, Insecurity, Paranoia and Quantum Mechanics (delivered 4 February 2008)
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