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Zuckerman Lectures

Each year the Minister for Science and Innovation invites a figure of international standing in the science world to address an audience composed of scientific representatives from academia, business and the policy-making communities. These lectures, which are traditionally one of the highlights of the science policy year, are named after the first Chief Scientific Adviser to the UK Government, Solly (later Lord) Zuckerman, who played a greatly significant and influential role in the management of publicly funded science and technology in the UK.

The Lecture is organised OSI

Previous lectures have been given by:

  • Dr Ben Ngubane (South Africa)

  • Dr Heinz Riesenhuber (Germany)

  • Dr Jack Gibbons (the US Presidential science advisor)

  • M. François Fillon (France)

  • Mme Edith Cresson, former European Commissioner for Science and Technology

  • Neal Lane, Assistant to the US President for Science and Technology

  • Professor Claude Allègre, former French Minister for Education, Research and Technology

  • Frau Edelgard Bulmahn, Federal Minister for Education and Research

  • Professor Sir David King, UK Chief Scientific Adviser

  • Dr R. A. Mashelkar, Director General, Indian Council of Scientific and Industrial Research

  • Hiroyuki Yoshikawa, President, Japanese National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science & Technology

  • Professor Jeffrey Sachs, Director, Earth Institute at Columbia University

The 2007 lecture will place on 16th March at the Royal Society, 6-9 Carlton House Terrace. Vice President Al Gore, will give his lecture on "An Inconvenient Truth". Please note this is not a public lecture and attendance is by personal invitation only.

 

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