Erasmus Darwin Memorial Lectures
1990 - 2007
1990 Dr Richard
Dawkins, Department of Zoology, University of Oxford
‘ Darwinizing with a Vengeance'
1991 Dr
R Keay, Secretary, Royal Society
‘ Tropical Rain Forests’
1992 Dr David
Drewry, Director of the British Antarctic Survey
‘ Antarctica and its Rôle in Global Environmental Change’
1993 Professor
Brian Legg, Director of the Silsoe Institute
‘ Feeding the World – Can Engineering Help’
1994 Professor
Ian Fells, Professor of Energy Conversion, University
of Newcastle-on-Tyne
‘ Energy, Economics and the Environment’
1995 Professor
Heinz Wolff, Head of Department of Bioengineering,
Brunel University
‘ Colonizing Outer Space’
1996 Professor
David Kerr, CRC Centre for Cancer Studies, University
of Birmingham
‘ Cancer Treatment for the Next Millennium’
1997 Professor
Sir Robert May, Chief Scientific Adviser to the UK
Government, and Department of Zoology, University of Oxford
‘ Diversity of Life on Earth: Past, Present and Likely Future’
1998 Dr James
Jackson, Dept of Earth Sciences, Cambridge University
‘ Exploring the Earth: Finding Out How Our Planet Works’
1999 Professor
Paul McMaster, Queen Elizabeth Hospital, Birmingham
‘ Transplant Surgery in the Next Millennium’
2000 Dr Adam
Hart-Davis
‘ The Lunaticks of Birmingham’
2001 The Baroness
Greenfield CBE, Director of the Royal Institution and
Professor of Pharmacology, University of Oxford
‘ Brain of the Future’
2002 Professor Sir Kenneth Calman,
Vice-Chancellor and Warden, University of Durham
‘ An Examination of Wit: Erasmus Darwin’s Unwritten
Book’
2003 Dr
Bernard Dixon OBE, European Editor for the American
Society of Microbiology
' Why Modify
Genes?'
2004 Professor
David Bellamy
' Stitching
Natural History Back into Working Order'
2005 Richard
Haslam-Jones, Director of Project Management,
Carnival Corporation
'Cruise
Liner Architecture'
2006 Lawrence
S. Young, Professor of Cancer Biology, Institute
Director and Head of Division, Cancer Research UK Institute
for Cancer Studies, University of Birmingham Medical School
'From Cause
to Cure'
2007 Professor
Steve Jones, Professor of Genetics, University
College London
'Why
Evolution is right and Creationism is wrong' |
