The Bernal Lecture[1] was an annual lecture on the social function of science organised by the Royal Society of London and endowed by Professor John Desmond Bernal. It was last delivered in 2004, after which it was merged with the Wilkins Lecture and Medawar Lecture to form the Wilkins-Bernal-Medawar Lecture.[2]
| Year | Name | Lecture | Notes | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1971 | Science and Antiscience. | — | ||
| 1974 | The new Atlantis revisited. | — | ||
| 1977 | Scientific and social approaches for the solution of global problems. | — | ||
| 1980 | Science, ideology and myth. | — | ||
| 1983 | The collectivization of science. | — | ||
| 1986 | The public understanding of science. | — | ||
| 1989 | Science and education. | — | ||
| 1992 | Molecular sleuthing: the story of DNA fingerprinting. (Sci. publ. Affairs Autumn 1993, 24.) (Delivered in 1993 in London and Keele.) | — | ||
| 1995 | UK Science and Technology policy: a perspective from the past, a vision for the future. (Sci. publ. Affairs, Spring 1996.) (Delivered in London and Dundee.) | — | ||
| 1998 | The networking of academic and industrial research: the UK phenomenon. (Delivered in London and York.) | — | ||
| 2001 | JD Bernal: his legacy to science and to society (Delivered in London.). | — | ||
| 2004 | Are low-frequency environmental fields a health hazard? | — |