The Rutherford Memorial Lecture is an international lecture of the Royal Society created under the Rutherford Memorial Scheme in 1952. It is held at universities in various countries in the Commonwealth, with a stipulation that at least one of every three lectures must be held in New Zealand.
List of lecturers YearNameCountryLectureNotes1952 New Zealand1953Canada1954South AfricaRutherford, his Life and Work 1871-19371955India and PakistanScience and mankind -1956New ZealandThe Discovery of atomic number 1957AustraliaThe Birth of the nuclear atom1958Canada 1960New ZealandThe Development of X-ray analysis 1962Nigeria, Rhodesia and Nyasaland, UgandaAtomic physics and the strength of metals 1963India and Pakistan -1964New ZealandRutherford in nineteenth-century Cambridge 1965Canada1966AustraliaRadio and the Cavendish Laboratory 1967New Zealand -1968India and PakistanSome problems of the growth and spread of science in developing countries. 1969 Canada-1970 Kenya, Tanzania and Uganda -1971New ZealandEvolution of the elements 1975AustraliaYarns and Spinners:Recollections of Rutherford and Applications of Swift Rotation1977CanadaSome episodes of the α-particle story1979 New ZealandThe New Physics 1980India and Sri LankaMagnetic Oscillations in metals1981Zimbabwe-1982New ZealandRutherford, Radio and Opto-Electronics 1983CanadaRutherford and beta decay1984Australia -1985New Zealand -1986India -1987Canada -1988New Zealand -1989Australia -1990Canada -1991New Zealand -1992India -1993South-east Asia -1995New Zealand -1996Australia -1997New Zealand -1999South Africa -2000New Zealand -2003New Zealand -2005Singapore -2006New Zealand -2007Australia -2008South Africa -2010New ZealandMaths, maps and the human heart2013New ZealandPeople and the planet – how can we all live and flourish on a finite Earth? 2017New ZealandHow should we value nature in a human-dominated world?-2018CanadaPolar change – a perspective from the ice core palaeoclimate record’-2019New ZealandThinking like a vegetable: how plants decide what to do-
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Royal Society Rutherford Lectures (to 2010) Rutherford Memorial lecturers