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Past prize lectures from the Royal Society

Royal Society David Attenborough Award and Lecture

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The politics of DNA and the story of eugenics with Adam Rutherford | The Royal Society

1 hour and 17 mins watch
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Communicating Covid - with Jonathan Van-Tam | The Royal Society

55 mins watch
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Ancestors with Professor Alice Roberts | The Royal Society

57 mins watch
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Michael Faraday Prize and Lecture

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Consciousness in humans and other things with Anil K Seth | The Royal Society

1 hour and 3 mins watch
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Astronomy by microscope? | The Royal Society

54 mins watch
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Science under threat: the politics of institutionalised disinformation | The Royal Society

1 hour and 7 mins watch
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The science of laughter with Sophie Scott | The Royal Society

55 mins watch
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Wilkins-Bernal-Medawar Medal and Lecture

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Life begins at 40: the biological and cultural roots of the midlife crisis | The Royal Society

47 mins watch
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The life and times of Francis Crick | The Royal Society

1 hour and 11 mins watch
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Talking embryos: changing public perceptions of embryo research | The Royal Society

1 hour and 6 mins watch
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Remaking ourselves: human genome editing | The Royal Society

1 hour and 5 mins watch
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The history of women and maths | The Royal Society

52 mins watch
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Rosalind Franklin Award and Lecture

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What would a world without wheat be like? | The Royal Society

54 mins watch
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Bright futures in a dark universe | The Royal Society

1 hour and 8 mins watch
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Why soil is vital to life | The Royal Society

55 mins watch
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Jess Wade on the technologies of the future | The Royal Society

59 mins watch
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Space weather with Suzie Imber | The Royal Society

41 mins watch
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Bakerian Medal and Lecture

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Michelle Simmons: quantum machines at the atomic limit | The Royal Society

56 mins watch
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Computer vision: learning to see the world | The Royal Society

59 mins watch
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Discoveries at the icy moons of Jupiter and Saturn | The Royal Society

1 hour and 8 mins watch
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How mathematicians are helping art historians | The Royal Society

1 hour and 9 mins watch
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Croonian Medal and Lecture

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Ottoline Leyser: the story of my life | The Royal Society

1 hour and 5 mins watch
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A Journey Through the Virosphere | The Royal Society

1 hour and 10 mins watch
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The brain and obesity | The Royal Society

59 mins watch
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Life with two X chromosomes | The Royal Society

1 hour and 15 mins watch
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Milner Award and Lecture

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Privacy for the paranoid: the ultimate limits of secrecy | The Royal Society

1 hour and 3 mins watch
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Can AI help us think for ourselves? | The Royal Society

56 mins watch
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Probability theory and AI | The Royal Society

53 mins watch
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From deep network mysteries to physics | The Royal Society

57 mins watch
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Royal Society Africa Prize

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How medicines can be tailored to African populations | The Royal Society

1 hour and 17 mins watch
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Lie theory, deformations and the life sciences | The Royal Society

59 mins watch
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New tools to fight tuberculosis | The Royal Society

1 hour and 5 mins watch
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Francis Crick Medal and Lecture

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How the human brain thinks about itself | The Royal Society

1 hour and 3 mins watch
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Neurons, synapses, and the instinct of survival | The Royal Society

1 hour and 5 mins watch
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DNA graffiti: mutation patterns in cancer | The Royal Society

57 mins watch
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The origins of childhood cancer | The Royal Society

1 hour and 3 mins watch
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Ferrier Medal and Lecture

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The molecular basis of Huntington's disease | The Royal Society

1 hour and 14 mins watch
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The making, keeping and losing of memory | Ferrier Prize Lecture 2023

1 hour and 19 mins watch
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Royal Society Rising Star Africa Prize

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Carbon-based nanoelectronics: from simulations to applications | the Royal Society

1 hour and 5 mins watch
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Making medicines in an energy-deprived world | The Royal Society

1 hour and 1 min watch
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Can seaweed heal wounds without scarring? | The Royal Society

57 mins watch
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Clifford Paterson Medal and Lecture

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Data-driven materials discovery | The Royal Society

1 hour and 5 mins watch
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Small structures from soft matter | The Royal Society

1 hour and 8 mins watch
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Leeuwenhoek Medal and Lecture

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Uncovering the secret strategies of a parasitic worm | The Royal Society

1 hour and 1 min watch
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Proteins in 3D | The Royal Society

50 mins watch
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Kavli Medal and Lecture

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Truly sustainable energy storage | The Royal Society

1 hour and 14 mins watch
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