Bakerian Lecture

A Bakerian Lecture é uma palestra prêmio patrocinada pela Royal Society, devotada às ciências físicas.

Em 1775 o naturalista Henry Baker doou £ 100 por uma palestra, destinada a um fellow, nas áreas de história natural e filosofia experimental, a critério da Royal Society.

Ano	Nome	País	Título
1775	Peter Woulfe	Irlanda	"Experiments made in order to ascertain the nature of some Mineral Substances, and in particular to see how far the Acids of Sea-Salt and of Vitriol contribute to Mineralize Metallic and other Substances"
1776
1777
1778	Jan Ingenhousz	Países Baixos	"Electrical Experiments to explain how far the Phenomena of the Electrophorus may be accounted for by Dr Franklins Theory of Positive and Negative Electricity"
1779	Jan Ingenhousz	Países Baixos	"Improvements in Electricity"
1780	Tiberius Cavallo	Itália	"Thermometrical Experiments and Observations"
1781			"An Account of some Thermometrical Experiments"
1782			"An Account of some Experiments relating to the Property of Common and Inflammable Airs of pervading the Pores of Paper"
1783			"Description of an improved Air Pump"
1784			"An Account of some Experiments made with the new improved Air Pump"
1785			"Magnetical Experiments and Observations"
1786			"Magnetical Experiments and Observations"
1787			"Of the Methods of manifesting the Presence, and ascertaining the Quality, of small Quantities of Natural or Artificial Electricity"
1788			"On an Improvement in the Blow Pipe"
1789			"Magnetical Experiments and Observations"
1790			"A Description of a new Pyrometer"
1791			"On the Method of Measuring Distances by means of Telescopes furnished with Micrometers"
1792			"An Account of the Discoveries concerning Muscular Motion, which have been lately made, and are commonly known by the name of Animal Electricity"
1793	George Fordyce	Escócia	"An Account of a New Pendulum"
1794	Samuel Vince	Reino Unido	"Observations on the Theory of the Motion and Resistance of Fluids; with a Description of the Construction of Experiments, in order to obtain some fundamental Principles"
1795
1796
1797			"Experiments upon the Resistance of Bodies moving in Fluids"
1798			"Observations upon an unusual Horizontal Refraction of the Air; with Remarks on the Variations to which the lower Parts of the Atmosphere are sometimes subject"
1799
1800	Thomas Young	Reino Unido	"On the Mechanism of the Eye"
1801	Thomas Young	Reino Unido	"On the Theory of Light and Colours"
1802	William Hyde Wollaston	Reino Unido	"Observations on the Quantity of Horizontal Refraction; with Method of measuring the Dip at Sea"
1803	Thomas Young	Reino Unido	"Experiments and Calculations relative to Physical Optics"
1804	Samuel Vince		"Observations on the Hypotheses which have been assumed to account for the cause of Gravitation from Mechanical Principles"
1805	William Hyde Wollaston	Reino Unido	"On the Force of Percussion"
1806	Humphry Davy	Reino Unido	"On some Chemical Agencies of Electricity"
1807			"On some new Phenomena of Chemical Changes produced by Electricity, particularly the Decomposition of the fixed Alkalies, and the Exhibition of the new Substances, which constitute their Bases"
1808			"An Account of some new Analytical Researches on the Nature of certain Bodies, particularly the Alkalies, Phosphorus, Sulphur , Carbonaceous Matters, and the Acids hitherto undecompounded; with some general Observations on Chemical Theory"
1809			"On some new Electro-Chemical Researches, on various objects, particularly the Metallic Bodies from the Alkalies and Earths; and on some Combinations of Hydrogen"
1810			"On some of the Combinations of Oxymuriatic Gas and Oxygen, and on the Chemical Relations of these Principles to Inflammable Bodies"
1811
1812	William Hyde Wollaston	Reino Unido	"On the Elementary Particles of certain Crystals"
1813	William Thomas Brande	Reino Unido	"On some new Electro-Chemical Phenomena"
1814
1815
1816
1817
1818
1819	William Thomas Brande	Reino Unido	"On the Composition and Analysis of the inflammable Gaseous Compounds resulting from the destructive Distillation of Coal and Oil; with some Remarks on their relative heating and illuminating power"
1820	Henry Kater		"On the best kind of Steel, and form, for a Compass Needle"
1821	Edward Sabine		"An Account of Experiments to determine the Amount of the Dip of the Magnetic Needle in London , in August 1821; with Remarks on the Instruments which are usually employed in such determination"
1822
1823	John Herschel		"On certain Motions produced in Fluid Conductors when transmitting the Electric Current"
1824
1825
1826	Humphry Davy	Reino Unido	"On the Relations of Electrical and Chemical Changes"
1827	George Pearson		"Researches to discover the Faculties of Pulmonary Absorption with respect to Charcoal"
1828	William Hyde Wollaston	Reino Unido	"On a Method of rendering Platina malleable"
1829	Michael Faraday	Reino Unido	"On the manufacture of Glass for Optical Purposes"
1830
1831
1832	Michael Faraday	Reino Unido	"Experimental Researches in Electricity; Second Series"
1833	Samuel Hunter Christie	Reino Unido	"Experimental Determination of the Laws of Magneto-Electric Induction in different masses of the same metal, and its intensity in different metals"
1834
1835	Charles Lyell	Reino Unido	"On the Proofs of a gradual Rising of the Land in certain parts of Sweden"
1836	John William Lubbock		"On the Tides of the Port of London"
1837	William Henry Fox Talbot	Reino Unido	"Further Observations on the Optical Phenomena of Crystals"
1838	James Ivory		"On the Theory of the Astronomical Refractions"
1839	William Snow Harris		"Inquiries concerning the Elementary Laws of Electricity"
1840	George Biddell Airy	Reino Unido	"On the Theoretical Explanation of an apparent new Polarity of Light"
1841	George Newport		"On the Organs of Reproduction and the Development of the Myriapoda"
1842	James David Forbes		"On the Transparency of the Atmosphere and the Law of Extinction of the Solar Rays in passing through it"
1843	Charles Wheatstone	Reino Unido	"An Account of several new Instruments and Processes for determining the Constants of a Voltaic Circuit"
1844	Richard Owen		"A Description of certain Belemnites, preserved, with a great proportion of their soft parts, in the Oxford Clay, at Christian-Malford, Wilts"
1845	Charles Giles Bridle Daubeny		"Memoir on the Rotation of Crops, and on the Quantity of Inorganic Matters abstracted from the Soil by various Plants under different circumstances"
1846	James David Forbes		"Illustrations of the Viscous Theory of Glacier Motion"
1847	William Robert Grove		"On certain Phenomena of Voltaic Ignition and the Decomposition of Water into its constituent Gases by Heat"
1848	William Whewell		"Researches on the Tides. Thirteenth Series. On the Tides of the Pacific, and on the Diurnal Inequality"
1849	Michael Faraday	Reino Unido	"Experimental Researches in Electricity. Twenty-Second Series"
1850	Thomas Graham		"On the Diffusion of Liquids"
1851	Michael Faraday	Reino Unido	"Experimental Researches in Electricity. Twenty-Fourth Series"
1852	Charles Wheatstone	Reino Unido	"Contributions to the Physiology of Vision. Part II. On some remarkable and hitherto unobserved Phenomena on Binocular Vision (continued)"
1853	Edward Sabine		"On the Influence of the Moon on the Magnetic Declination at Toronto, St Helena, and Hobarton"
1854	Thomas Graham		"On Osmotic Force"
1855	John Tyndall		"On the Nature of the Force by which Bodies are repelled from the Poles of a Magnet; to which is prefixed an account of some experiments on Molecular Influences"
1856	William Thon		"On the Electro-dynamic Qualities of Metals"
1857	Michael Faraday	Reino Unido	"Experimental Relations of Gold (and other metals) to Light"
1858	John Peter Gassiot		"On the Stratifications and dark band in Electrical Discharges as observed in Torricellian Vacua"
1859	Edward Frankland		"Researches on Organo-metallic Bodies. Fourth Memoir"
1860	William Fairbairn		"Experimental Researches to determine the Law of Superheated Steam"
1861	John Tyndall		"On the Absorption and Radiation of Heat by Gases and Vapours, and on the Physical Connexion of radiation, Absorption and Conduction"
1862	Warren De la Rue		"On the Total Solar Eclipse of 18 July 1860, observed at Rivabellosa, near Miranda de Ebro in Spain"
1863	Henry Clifton Sorby		"On the Direct Correlation of Mechanical and Chemical Forces"
1864	John Tyndall		"Contributions to Molecular Physics: being the Fifth Memoir of Researches on Radiant Heat"
1865	Henry Enfield Roscoe		"On a Method of Meteorological Registration of the Chemical Action of Total Daylight"
1866	James Clerk Maxwell		"On the Viscosity or Internal Friction of Air and other Gases"
1867	Frederick Augustus Abel		"Researches on Gun-Cotton. (Second Memoir). On the Stability of Gun-Cotton"
1868	Henry Enfield Roscoe		"Researches on Vanadium"
1869	Thomas Andrews		"The Continuity of the Gaseous and Liquid States of Matter"
1870	John William Dawson		"On the Pre-Carboniferous Flora of North-Eastern America, and more especially on that of the Erian (Devonian) Period"
1871	Carl Wilhelm Siemens		"On the Increase of Electrical Resistance in Conductors with Rise of Temperature, and its Application to the Measure of Ordinary and Furnace Temperatures: also on a simple Method of measuring Electrical Resistances"
1872	William Kitchen Parker		"On the Structure and Development of the Skull of the Salmon (Salmo salar, L.)"
1873	Earl of Rosse		"On the Radiation of Heat from the Moon, the Law of its Absorption by our Atmosphere, and its variation in Amount with her Phases"
1874	J Norman Lockyer		"Researches in Spectrum Analysis in connexion with the Spectrum of the Sun. Part III"
1875	William Grylls Adams		"On the Forms of Equipotential Curves and Surfaces and on Lines of Flow"
1876	Thomas Andrews		"On the Gaseous State of Matter"
1877	William Crawford Willian		"On the Organization of the Fossil Plants of the Coal Measures"
1878	William Crookes		"On Repulsion resulting from Radiation. Part V"
1879	William Crookes		"On the Illumination of Lines of Molecular Pressure and the Trajectory of Molecules"
1880	William de W Abney		"On the Photographic Method of Mapping the least refrangible end of the Solar Spectrum"
1881	John Tyndall		"Action of free Molecules on Radiant Heat, and its conversion thereby into sound"
1882	Heinrich Debus		"On the Chemical Theory of Gunpowder"
1883	William Crookes		"On Radiant Matter Spectroscopy: the Detection and wide Distribution of Yttrium"
1884	Arthur Schuster		"Experiments on the Discharge of Electricity through gases. Sketch of a Theory"
1885	William Huggins		"On the Corona of the Sun"
1886	William de W Abney e Edward Robert Festing		"Colour Photometry"
1887	Joseph John Thon		"On the Dissociation of some Gases by the Electric Discharge"
1888	J Norman Lockyer		"Suggestions on the Classification of the various Species of Heavenly Bodies. A Report to the Solar Physics Committee"
1889	Arthur William Rucker e Thomas Edward Thorpe		"A magnetic Survey of the British isles for the Epoch January 1, 1886"
1890	Arthur Schuster		"The Discharge of Electricity through Gases. Preliminary Communication"
1891	George Howard Darwin		"On Tidal Prediction"
1892	James Thon		"On the Grand Currents of Atmospheric Circulation"
1893	Harold B Dixon		"The rate of Explosion in Gases"
1894	Thomas Edward Thorpe e JW Rodger		"On the Relations between the Viscosity (internal friction) of Liquids and their Chemical Nature"
1895	A.G. Vernon Harcourt e William Esson		"On the Laws of Connexion between the Conditions of a Chemical Change and its Amount. III. Further Researches on the Reaction of Hydrogen Dioxide and Hydrogen Iodide"
1896	William Chandler Roberts-Austen		"On the Diffusion of Metals"
1897	Osborne Reynolds e WH Moorby		"On the Mechanical Equivalent of Heat"
1898	William James Russell		"Further Experiments on the Action exerted by certain Metals and other Bodies on a Photographic Plate"
1899	James Alfred Ewing e W Rosenhain		"The Crystalline Structure of Metals"
1900	William Augustus Tilden		"On the Specific Heat of Metals and the Relation of Specific Heat to Atomic Weight"
1901	James Dewar		"The Nadir of Temperature and Allied Problems"
1902	John William Strutt		"On the Law of the Pressure of Gases between 75 and 150 Millimetres of Mercury"
1903	CT Heycock e FH Neville		"On the Constitution of the Copper-tin Series of Alloys"
1904	Ernest Rutherford		"The Succession of Changes in Radio-active Bodies"
1905	Horace T Brown		"The Reception and Utilization of Energy by the Green Leaf"
1906	John Milne		"Recent Advances in Seismology"
1907	Thomas Edward Thorpe		"The Atomic Weight of Radium"
1908	Charles H Lees		"The Effects of Temperature and Pressure on the Thermal Conductivities of Solids"
1909	Joseph Larmor		"On the Statistical and Thermo-dynamical Relations of Radiant Energy"
1910	John Henry Poynting e Guy Barlow		"The Pressure of Light against the Source: the Recoil from Light"
1911	Robert John Strutt		"A Chemically-Active Modification of Nitrogen Produced by the Electric Discharge"
1912	Hugh Longbourne Callendar		"On the Variation of the Specific Heat of Water, with Experiments by a new Method"
1913	Joseph John Thon		"Rays of Positive Electricity"
1914	Alfred Fowler		"Series Lines in Spark Spectra"
1915	William Henry Bragg		"X-rays and Crystals"
1916	Charles Glover Barkla		"X-rays and the Theory of Radiation"
1917	James Hopwood Jeans		"The Configurations of Rotating Compressible Masses"
1918	Charles Parsons		"Experiments on the Artificial Production of Diamond"
1919	Robert John Strutt		"A Study of the Line Spectrum of Sodium as Excited by Fluorescence"
1920	Ernest Rutherford		"Nuclear Constitution of Atoms"
1921	Thomas Martin Lowry e Percy Corlett Austin		"Optical Rotatory Dispersion. Part II. Tartaric Acid and the Tartrates"
1922	Thomas Ralph Merton e S. Barratt		"On the Spectrum of Hydrogen"
1923	Geoffrey Ingram Taylor e Constance F. Elam		"The Distortion of an Aluminium Crystal during a Tensile Test"
1924	Alfred Fowler		"The Spectra of Silicon at Successive Stages of Ionization"
1925	William Bate Hardy e Ida Bircumshaw		"Boundary Lubrication - Plane Surfaces and the Limitations of Amontons Law"
1926	Arthur Stanley Eddington		"Diffuse Matter in Interstellar Space"
1927	Francis William Aston		"A New Mass-Spectrograph and the Whole Number Rule"
1928	John Cunningham McLennan		"The Aurora and its Spectrum"
1929	Edward Arthur Milne		"The Structure and Opacity of a Stellar Atmosphere"
1930	Robert Robinson		"The Molecular Structure of Strychnine and Brucine"
1931	Sydney Chapman		"Some Phenomena of the Upper Atmosphere"
1932	William Arthur Bone		"The Combustion of Hydrocarbons"
1933	James Chadwick		"The Neutron"
1934	William Lawrence Bragg		"The Structure of Alloys"
1935	Ralph Howard Fowler		"The Anomalous Specific Heats of Crystals, with special reference to the Contribution of Molecular Rotations"
1936	Frederic Stanley Kipping		"Organic Compounds of Silicon"
1937	Edward Victor Appleton		"Regularities and Irregularities in the Ionosphere"
1938	Christopher Kelk Ingold		"The Structure of Benzene"
1939	Patrick Maynard Stuart Blackett		"Penetrating Cosmic Rays"
1940	Nevil Vincent Sidgwick		"Stereochemical types and valency groups"
1940	Herbert Marcus Powell		"Stereochemical types and valency groups"
1941	Paul Dirac		"The physical interpretation of quantum mechanics"
1942	Albert Charles Chibnall		"Amino-acid analysis and the structure of proteins"
1943	Richard Vynne Southwell		"Relaxation methods: a mathematics for engineering sciences"
1944	Walter Norman Haworth		"The structure, function and synthesis of polysaccharides"
1945	Gordon Dobson		"Meteorology of the lower stratosphere"
1946	Cyril Norman Hinshelwood		"The more recent work on the hydrogen-oxygen reaction"
1947	Harry Ralph Ricardo		"Some problems in connexion with the development of a high-speed diesel engine"
1948	George Paget Thon		"Nuclear explosions"
1949	Harold Raistrick		"A region of biosynthesis"
1950	Percy Williams Bridgman	Estados Unidos	"Physics above 20 000 kg/cm2"
1951	Eric Keightley Rideal		"Reactions in monolayers"
1952	Harold Jeffreys	Reino Unido	"The origin of the solar system"
1953	Nevill Francis Mott	Reino Unido	"Dislocations, plastic flow and creep in metals"
1954	Alexander Robertus Todd		"Chemistry of the nucleotides"
1955	Marcus Oliphant	Austrália	"The acceleration of charged particles to very high energies"
1956	Harry Work Melville		"Addition polymerization"
1957	Cecil Frank Powell	Reino Unido	"The elementary particles"
1958	Martin Ryle	Reino Unido	"The nature of the cosmic radio sources"
1959	Edmund Langley Hirst		"Molecular structure in the polysaccharide group"
1960	Gerhard Herzberg	Alemanha	"The spectra and structures of free methyl and free methylene"
1961	Michael James Lighthill	Reino Unido	"Sound generated aerodynamically"
1962	John Desmond Bernal	Irlanda	"The structure of liquids"
1963	Alan Howard Cottrell		"Fracture"
1964	Frederick Calland Williams		"Inventive technology: the search for better electric machines"
1965	Melvin Calvin	Estados Unidos	"Chemical evolution"
1966	Ronald Norrish	Reino Unido	"The progress of photochemistry exemplified by reactions of the halogens"
1967	Edward Crisp Bullard	Reino Unido	"Reversals of the Earth's magnetic field"
1968	Fred Hoyle	Reino Unido	"Review of recent developments in cosmology"
1969	Richard Henry Dalitz		"Particles and interactions: the problems of high-energy physics"
1970	Derek Harold Richard Burton		"Some approaches to the synthesis of tetracycline"
1971	Basil John Mason		"The physics of the thunderstorm"
1972	Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin		"Insulin"
1973	Frederick Charles Frank		"Crystals imperfect"
1974	Desmond George King-Hele		"A view of Earth and air"
1975	Michael Francis Atiyah		"Global geometry"
1976	George Wallace Kenner		"Towards synthesis of proteins"
1977	George Porter	Reino Unido	"In vitro models for photosynthesis"
1978	Robert Lewis Fullarton Boyd		"Cosmic exploration by X-rays"
1979	Michael Ellis Fisher		"Multicritical points in magnets and fluids: a review of some novel states of matter"
1980	Abdus Salam	Paquistão	"Gauge unification of fundamental forces"
1981	Robert Joseph Paton Williams		"Natural selection of the chemical elements"
1982	Martin Rees		"Galaxies and their nuclei"
1983	Alfred Edward Ringwood		"The Earths core: its composition, formation and bearing upon the origin of the earth"
1984	Alan Rushton Battersby		"Biosynthesis of the pigments of life"
1985	Carlo Rubbia		"Unification of the electromagnetic and weak forces"
1986	Walter Heinrich Munk		"Acoustic monitoring of ocean gyres"
1987	Michael Victor Berry		"The semiclassical chaology of quantum eigenvalues"
1988	Walter Eric Spear		"Amorphous semiconductors, a new generation of electronic materials"
1989	Jack Lewis		"Cluster compounds, a new aspect of inorganic chemistry"
1990	John Meurig Thomas		"New microcrystalline catalysts"
1991	John Houghton		"The predictability of weather and climate"
1992	Thomas Benjamin		"The mystery of vortex breakdown"
1993	Hans Bethe	Alemanha/ Estados Unidos	"Mechanism of supernovae"
1994	John Polanyi		"Photochemistry in the adsorbed state, using light as a scalpel and a crystal as an operating table"
1995	Anthony Kelly		"Composites, towards intelligent materials design"
1996	Alastair Scott		"Genetically engineered synthesis of natural products"
1997	Steven Ley		"Sweet dreams: new strategies for oligosaccharide assembly"
1998	Richard Salisbury Ellis		"The morphological evolution of the galaxies"
1999	Peter Day		"The molecular chemistry of magnets and superconductors"
2000	Steve Sparks		"How volcanoes work"
2001	David Sherrington		"Magnets, microchips, memories and markets: statistical physics of complex systems"
2002	Arnold Wolfendale		"Cosmic rays: what are they and where do they come from?"
2003	Christopher Dobson		"Protein folding and misfolding: from theory to therapy"
2004	Michael Pepper		"Semiconductor nanostructures and new quantum effects"
2005	John Pendry		"Negative refraction, the perfect lens and metamaterials"
2006	Athene Donald		"The mesoscopic world - from plastic bags to brain disease - structural similarities in physics"
2007	Joseph Silk		"The dark side of the Universe"
2008	Robin Clark		"Raman microscopy, pigments and the arts/science interface"
2009	James Murray	Escócia	"Mathematics in the real world: From brain tumours to saving marriages"
2010	Donal Bradley	Reino Unido	"Plastic electronics: their science and applications"^[1]
2011	Herbert Huppert		"Carbon storage: caught between a rock and climate change"^[2]
2012	Peter Edwards		"Metals and the conducting and superconducting states of matter"^[3]
2013	David Leigh		"Making the tiniest machines"^[4]
2014	Lynn Gladden for the development of magnetic resonance techniques to study multi-component adsorption, diffusion, flow and reaction processes ^[4]		""
2015	John Ellis		""
2016	Andrea Ghez		""
2017	Andy Hopper		""