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.[1]
| Years: Recipient | Lecture Title | |
|---|---|---|
| 1918-1922: Alfred North Whitehead[2] | The Relatedness of Nature (delivered 5 June 1922) | |
| 1922-1927: Joseph Larmor[3] | The Grasp of Mind on Nature (delivered 4 July 1927) | |
| 1927-1930: Niels Bohr[4] [5] | Philosophical Aspects of Atomic Theory (delivered 26 May 1930) | |
| Ways to the Knowledge of Nature (delivered 1 May 1933) | ||
| The Relation between Mathematics and Physics (delivered 6 February 1939) | ||
| 1940-1943: Edward Arthur Milne | Fundamental Concepts of Natural Philosophy | |
| 1945-1948: Herbert Dingle[6] | The Nature of Scientific Philosophy (delivered 5 July 1948) | |
| 1955-1958: C.D. Broad[7] | Some Remarks on Change, Continuity, and Discontinuity (delivered 11 November 1957) | |
| 1958-1961: Herbert Butterfield[8] | The Place of the Scientific Revolution in the History of Thought | |
| 1960-1963: Hermann Bondi[9] | ? | |
| 1963-1966: William Lawrence Bragg[10] | The Spirit of Science [11] (delivered 3 July 1967) | |
| 1966-1970: Karl Popper[12] | Conjectural Knowledge: My Solution of the Problem of Induction (delivered 7 June 1971) | |
| 1970-1974: Nicholas Kurti[13] | Meditations on Heat and Cold (date delivered 25 October 1976) | |
| 1974-1979: D.W. Sciama[14] | The Beginning and End of the Universe (delivered 7 June 1982) | |
| 1984-1987: W. Cochran[15] | ? | |
| 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[16] | Security, Insecurity, Paranoia and Quantum Mechanics (delivered 4 February 2008) |