title: Bernal Lecture
text: # Bernal Lecture
  
  The Bernal Lecture 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.
  
  ## List of lecturers
  
  | Year | Name | Lecture | Notes |
  | - | - | - | - |
  | 1971 | Eric Ashby | Science and Antiscience. | — |
  | 1974 | Conrad Hal Waddington | The new Atlantis revisited. | — |
  | 1977 | Piotr Leonidovich Kapitza | Scientific and social approaches for the solution of global problems. | — |
  | 1980 | John Maynard Smith | Science, ideology and myth. | — |
  | 1983 | John Ziman | The collectivization of science. | — |
  | 1986 | Walter Bodmer | The public understanding of science. | — |
  | 1989 | Walter Perry | Science and education. | — |
  | 1992 | Alec Jeffreys | Molecular sleuthing: the story of DNA fingerprinting. (Sci. publ. Affairs Autumn 1993, 24.) (Delivered in 1993 in London and Keele.) | — |
  | 1995 | William Stewart | 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 | Tom Blundell | The networking of academic and industrial research: the UK phenomenon. (Delivered in London and York.) | — |
  | 2001 | Alan Lindsay Mackay | JD Bernal: his legacy to science and to society (Delivered in London.). | — |
  | 2004 | Michael Joseph Crumpton | Are low-frequency environmental fields a health hazard? | — |
  