| 1972 |
“Talking pictures,” 1922 Sound-on-Film Motion Picture |
Dennis Gabor, C.B.E., F.R.S. |
Professor at Imperial College, University of London |
| 1974 |
The Divorce between the Sciences and the Humanities |
Sir Isaiah Berlin, C.B.E., F.B.A. |
President of Wolfson College, Oxford |
| 1976 |
Science and Human Experience |
Leon N. Cooper |
Professor of Science and Director of the Center for Neural Studies at Brown University |
| 1978 |
The “I” and “We” of Art and Science |
Sol Spiegelman |
Professor of Human Genetics and Development and Director of the Institute of Cancer Research College of Physicians and Surgeons at Columbia University |
| 1981 |
Quick is Beautiful |
Freeman Dyson |
Professor of Physics at The Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, New Jersey |
| 1983 |
Contemporary Tasks for the Law |
Sir Zelman Cowen |
Provost of Oriel College, Oxford |
| 1986 |
The Contingency of Selfhood |
Richard Rorty |
Kenan Professor of Humanities at University of Virginia |
| 1988 |
Progress in the Science of Research |
Herbert A. Simon |
Richard King Mellon Professor of Computer Science and Psychology at Carnegie-Mellon University |
| 1990 |
A Brief History of the First 15 Billion Years |
Leon Max Lederman |
Frank E. Sulzberger Professor of Physics at the University of Chicago |
| 1992 |
Science -in-Fiction is not Science Fiction – Is it Autobiography? |
Carl Djerassi |
Professor of Chemistry at Stanford University |
| 1998 |
Back and Forth Between the Cosmic and the Intimate |
Yash Pal |
National Research Professor at All India Council for Technical Education |
| 2017 |
A New Kilogram in 2018: The Biggest Revolution in Metrology since the French Revolution |
Professor Klaus von Klitzing |
Nobel Laureate and Director of Max-Planck Institute for Solid State Research, Germany |