Medawar Lecture
# Medawar Lecture

The Medawar Lecture was an annual lecture on the philosophy of science organised by the Royal Society of London in memory of Sir Peter Medawar. It was last delivered in 2004 after which it was merged with the Wilkins Lecture and the Bernal Lecture to form the Wilkins-Bernal-Medawar Lecture.

## List of lecturers

| Year | Name | Lecture | Notes |
| - | - | - | - |
| 1986 | Karl Raimund Popper | A new interpretation of Darwinism. | — |
| 1990 | Lewis Thomas | The new transitional structure of basic science: prospects and apprehensions. | — |
| 1992 | Max Ferdinand Perutz | Species adaptation in a protein molecule. | — |
| 1995 | John Michael Ziman | Post-academic science. | — |
| 1998 | Lewis Wolpert | Is science dangerous? | — |
| 2001 | Richard Langton Gregory | Knowledge for vision: vision for knowledge. | — |
| 2004 | Peter Lipton | The truth about science | — |
