英国皇家科学院圣诞讲座

聖誕講座，或稱耶誕講座（）是指自1825年以來由在倫敦所辦的系列講座，向大眾介紹科學新知為名，而以易懂且富娛樂性為其特色，如化學家法拉第的最著名的通俗科學演講蠟燭系列講座。

历年讲座

 没有电视直播的年代：1825到1965 

 年份 演讲者 主题 1825 John Millington 自然哲学 1826 John Wallis 解剖学 1827 麥可·法拉第 化学 1828 J. Wood  建筑学 1829 麥可·法拉第 电学 1830 Thomas Webster 地质学 1831 James Rennie 动物学 1832 麥可·法拉第 化学 1833 约翰·林德利 植物学 1834 威廉·托马斯·布兰德 Chemistry 1835 麥可·法拉第 Electricity 1836 威廉·托马斯·布兰德 Chemistry of the Gases 1837 麥可·法拉第 Chemistry 1838 John Wallis Astronomy 1839 威廉·托马斯·布兰德 The Chemistry of the Atmosphere and the Ocean 1840 约翰·弗雷德里克·丹尼尔 The First Principles of Franklinic Electricity 1841 麥可·法拉第 The Rudiments of Chemistry 1842 威廉·托马斯·布兰德 The Chemistry of the Non-Metallic Elements 1843 麥可·法拉第 First Principles of Electricity 1844 威廉·托马斯·布兰德 The Chemistry of the Gases 1845 麥可·法拉第 The Rudiments of Chemistry 1846 John Wallis The Rudiments of Astronomy 1847 威廉·托马斯·布兰德  The Elements of Organic Chemistry 1848 麥可·法拉第 The Chemical History of a Candle 1849 Robert Walker  The Properties of Matter and the Laws of Motion 1850 威廉·托马斯·布兰德 The Chemistry of Coal 1851麥可·法拉第 Attractive Forces 1852 Chemistry 1853 Voltaic Electricity 1854 The Chemistry of Combustion 1855 The Distinctive Properties of the Common Metals 1856 Attractive Forces 1857 Static Electricity 1858 The Metallic Properties 1859 The Various Forces of Matter and their Relations to Each Other 1860 The Chemical History of a Candle 1861 约翰·丁达尔 Light 1862 爱德华·弗兰克兰 Air and Water 1863 约翰·丁达尔 Electricity at Rest and Electricity in Motion 1864 爱德华·弗兰克兰 The Chemistry of a Coal 1865 约翰·丁达尔 Sound 1866 爱德华·弗兰克兰 The Chemistry of Gases 1867 约翰·丁达尔 Heat and Cold 1868 威廉·奥德林 The Chemical Changes of Carbon 1869 约翰·丁达尔 Light 1870 威廉·奥德林 Burning and Unburning 1871 约翰·丁达尔 Ice, Water, Vapour and Air 1872 威廉·奥德林 Air and Gas 1873 约翰·丁达尔 The Motion and Sensation of Sound 1874 约翰·霍尔·格拉德斯通  The Voltaic Battery 1875 约翰·丁达尔 Experimental Electricity 1876 约翰·霍尔·格拉德斯通 The Chemistry of Fire 1877 约翰·丁达尔 Heat, Visible and Invisible 1878 詹姆斯·杜瓦 A Soap Bubble 1879 约翰·丁达尔 Water and Air 1880 詹姆斯·杜瓦 Atoms 1881 罗伯特·斯德威尔·鲍尔 The Sun, the Moon and the Planets 1882 约翰·丁达尔 Light and the Eye 1883 詹姆斯·杜瓦 Alchemy in Relation to Modern Science 1884 约翰·丁达尔 The Sources of Electricity 1885詹姆斯·杜瓦 The Story of a Meteorite 1886 The Chemistry of Light and Photography 1887 罗伯特·斯德威尔·鲍尔 Astronomy 1888 詹姆斯·杜瓦 Clouds and Cloudland 1889 Arthur Rücker Electricity 1890 詹姆斯·杜瓦 霜与火 1891 约翰·格雷·麦肯特列克 Life in Motion; or the Animal Machine 1892 罗伯特·斯德威尔·鲍尔 Astronomy 1893 詹姆斯·杜瓦 空气：气体和液体 1894 约翰·弗莱明 电流作的功 1895 约翰·格雷·麦肯特列克 Sound, Hearing and Speech 1896 Sylvanus Phillips Thompson Light, Visible and Invisible 1897 Oliver Lodge The Principles of the Electric Telegraph 1898 罗伯特·斯德威尔·鲍尔 Astronomy 1899 查尔斯·弗农·博伊斯 运动和静止状态下的流体 1900 罗伯特·斯德威尔·鲍尔 Great Chapters from the Book of Nature 1901 约翰·弗莱明 水、空气和以太的波浪和涟漪 1902 Henry Selby Hele-Shaw Locomotion : On the Earth, Through the Water, in the Air 1903 E·雷·兰克斯特 Extinct Animals 1904 Henry Cunynghame Ancient and Modern Methods of Measuring Time 1905 赫伯特·霍尔·特纳 Astronomy 1906 威廉·达德尔 Signalling to a Distance 1907 戴维·吉尔 新旧天文学 1908 威廉·斯特林 The Wheel of Life 1909 威廉·达德尔 Modern Electricity 1910 Sylvanus Phillips Thompson Sound: Musical and Non-Musical 1911 Peter Chalmers Mitchell The Childhood of Animals 1912 詹姆斯·杜瓦 最后一次圣诞讲座 1913 赫伯特·霍尔·特纳 A Voyage in Space 1914 查尔斯·弗农·博伊斯 住宅中的科学 1915 赫伯特·霍尔·特纳 Wireless Messages from the Stars 1916 阿瑟·基思 The Human Machine Which All Must Work 1917 约翰·弗莱明 我们有用的仆人：磁和电 1918 达西·汤普森 The Fish of the Sea 1919 威廉·亨利·布拉格 声音的世界 1920 John Arthur Thomson The Haunts of Life 1921 约翰·弗莱明 电波与无线电话 1922 赫伯特·霍尔·特纳 Six Steps Up the Ladder to the Stars 1923 威廉·亨利·布拉格 关于事物的本质 1924 Francis Balfour-Browne Concerning the Habits of Insects 1925 威廉·亨利·布拉格 老手艺与新知识 1926 阿奇博爾德·希爾 神经和肌肉：我们的感觉和运动 1927 爱德华·安德拉德 Engines 1928 Alexander Wood Sound Waves and their Uses 1929 Stephen Glanville How Things Were Done in Ancient Egypt 1930 Arthur Mannering Tyndall The Electric Spark 1931 威廉·亨利·布拉格 光的宇宙 1932 Alexander Oliver Rankine The Round of the Waters 1933 詹姆士·金斯 穿越时空 1934 威廉·劳伦斯·布拉格 电 1935 Charles Edward Kenneth Mees Photography 1936 傑弗里·泰勒 轮船 1937 朱利安·赫胥黎 珍稀野生动物的消失 1938 James Kendall Young Chemists and Great Discoveries 1939–1942 因第二次世界大战爆发而暂停 1943 爱德华·安德拉德 Vibrations and Waves 1944 Harold Spencer Jones Astronomy in our Daily Life 1945 勞勃·華生-瓦特 无线电报 1946 Hamilton Hartridge Colours and How We See Them 1947 埃里克·凯特利·里德尔 Chemical Reactions: How They Work 1948 弗雷德里克·巴特莱特 工作和娱乐的大脑 1949 Percy Dunsheath The Electric Current 1950 爱德华·安德拉德 Waves and Vibrations 1951 詹姆斯·格雷 How Animals Move 1952 F. Sherwood Taylor How Science Has Grown 1953 John Ashworth Ratcliffe The Uses of Radio Waves 1954 弗兰克·惠特尔 石油的故事 1955 Harry W. Melville Big Molecules 1956 Harry Baines  Photography 1957 朱利安·赫胥黎和James Fisher Birds 1958 John Ashworth Ratcliffe, James M. Stagg, Robert L. F. Boyd, Graham Sutton, George E. R. Deacon, Gordon de Quetteville Robin 国际地球物理年 1959 Thomas Allibone The Release and Use of Atomic Energy 1960 Vernon Ellis Cosslett Seeing the Very Small 1961 威廉·劳伦斯·布拉格 Electricity 1962 R. E. D. (Richard Evelyn Donohue) Bishop Vibration 1963 Ronald King Energy 1964 德斯蒙德·莫利斯 Animal Behaviour 1965 Bernard Lovell, Francis Graham-Smith,  马丁·赖尔、安东尼·休伊什 Exploration of the Universe

 电视直播的年代：1966至今 
 年份 演讲者 主题 分节标题 电视台 1966 埃里克·莱思韦特Eric Laithwaite The Engineer in Wonderland仙境中的工程师1. The White Rabbit

2. Only the Grin was Left

3. The Caucus Race

4. Curiouser and Curiouser

5. If only I were the right size to do it

6. It's the Oldest Rule in the Book BBC Two 1967 理查德·L·格里高利Richard Langton Gregory The Intelligent Eye聪明的眼睛1. Ancient Eyes and Simple Brains

2. Learning to See Things

3. Playing with Illusions

4. How Illusions Play Games with Us

5. Human Eyes in Space

6. The Future-Machines that See? 1968 菲利普·莫里森Philip Morrison Gulliver's Laws: The Physics of Large and Small格列佛定律：关于大和小的物理学1. The World of Captain Gulliver

2. Meat and Drink Sufficient...

3. A Prodigious Leap?

4. Lilliput and Brobdingnag since the Industrial Revolution

5. Dwarf and Giant Numbers

6. Beyond the Map   1969 乔治·波特George Porter Time Machines时间机器1. In the Beginning...

2. Clockwork Harmony

3. The Tick of the Atom

4. Big Time, Little Time

5. Faster, Faster

6. To the Ends of Time 1970 约翰·R·内皮尔John Napier Monkeys Without Tails: A Giraffe's Eye-view of Man没有尾巴的猴子：长颈鹿眼中的人类1. Man has a very short neck and no tail

2. Man comes in several different sizes and shapes

3. Fancy having to climb trees in order to eat

4. Man chooses a sensible place to live at last

5. Why choose to walk on two legs when it is much safer on four?

6. What's the idea of shooting at us? 1971 查尔斯·A·泰勒Charles Taylor Sounds of Music: The Science of Tones and Tune音乐之声：音调和曲调的科学1. Making and Measuring the Waves

2. From Small Beginnings

3. Growing and Changing

4. Craftsmanship and Technology

5. On the Way to the Ear

6. The End of the Journey 1972 Geoffrey G. Gouriet Ripples in the Ether: The Science of Radio Communication1. How It All Began

2. Getting Rid of the Wires

3. The Sound of Broadcasting

4. Pictures With and Without Wires

5. But Electrons aren't Coloured!

6. Vision of the Future 1973 戴維·阿滕伯勒David Attenborough The Language of Animals动物的语言 1. Beware!
2. Be Mine

3. Parents and Children

4. Simple Signs and Complicated Communications

5. Foreign Languages

6. Animal Language, Human Language 1974 埃里克·莱思韦特Eric Laithwaite The Engineer Through the Looking Glass1. Looking Glass House
2. Tweedledum and Tweedledee

3. Jam Yesterday, Jam Tomorrow

4. The Jabberwock

5. The Time has come the Walrus said

6. It's my own Invention 1975 Heinz Wolff Signals from the Interior1. You as an engine
2. Pumps pipes and flows

3. Spikes and waves

4. Probes, sondes and sounds

5. Looking through your skin

6. Signals from the mind 1976 乔治·波特George Porter The Natural History of a Sunbeam1. First Light

2. Light and Life

3. A Leaf from Nature

4. Candles from the Sun

5. Making Light Work

6. Survival Under the Sun 1977 卡尔·萨根Carl Sagan The Planets1. The Earth as a Planet
2. The Outer Solar System and Life

3. The History of Mars

4. Mars before Viking

5. Mars after Viking

6. Planetary Systems Beyond Our Sun 1978 埃里克·克里斯托弗·齐曼Erik Christopher Zeeman Mathematics into Pictures1. Linking and Knotting
2. Numbers and Geometry

3. Infinity and Perspective

4. Games and Evolution

5. Waves and Music

6. Catastrophe and Psychology 1979 Eric M. Rogers Atoms for Engineering Minds: A Circus of Experiments1. Getting to Know Atoms

2. Molecules in Motion

3. Electrified Atoms

4. Atoms that Explode

5. Atoms and Energy

6. Seeing Atoms at Last 1980 大卫·奇尔顿·菲利浦斯 马克斯·佩鲁茨演讲了第5节David Chilton Phillipswith Max Perutz in Lecture 5 The Chicken, the Egg and the Molecules1. What are chickens made of?
2. Machine tools of life

3. Muscle power

4. Eggs, genes and proteins

5. Haemoglobin: the breathing molecule

6. Molecules at work 1981 Reginald Victor Jones From Magna Carta to Microchip1. Principles, Standards and Methods

2. The Measurement of Time

3. More and More About Less and Less

4. Onwards to the Stars

5. Measurement and Navigation in War

6. Some Impacts of Measurement on Life: And Can We Take it too Far? 1982 科林·布莱克默Colin Blakemore Common Sense1. Making Sense

2. The Sound of Silence

3. The Sixth Sense - and the Rest

4. Show Me the Way to Go Home

5. Vive la différence

6. Enchanted Loom 1983 Leonard Maunder Machines in Motion1. Driving Forces

2. Gathering Momentum

3. Vibration

4. Under Control

5. Fluids and Flight

6. Living Machines 1984 沃尔特·博德默尔Walter Bodmer The Message of the Genes1. We're All Different

2. The Spice of Life

3. Genetic Engineering

4. Bodies and Antibodies

5. Normal Cells and Cancer Cells

6. When Will Pigs Have Wings? 1985 约翰·大卫·皮耶 John David Pye Communicating交流1. No Man is an Island

2. Animal Talk

3. The Bionic Bat

4. The Pace of Technology

5. The Integrated Body

6. Computers 1986 刘易斯·沃尔珀特Lewis Wolpert Frankenstein's Quest: Development of Life1. First Take an Egg...

2. The Medium and the Message

3. The Right Stuff

4. Genes and Flies

5. Chain of Command

6. Growing Up and Growing Old 1987 约翰·默瑞格·托马斯和大卫·菲利普斯John Meurig Thomas and David Phillips Crystals and Lasers晶体与激光器1. Introducing the characters

2. The architecture of crystals

3. Semiconductors, superconductors and catalysts

4. Constructing a laser

5. Applications of lasers

6. Crystals, lasers and the human body 1988 Gareth Roberts The Home of the Future1. Appliance Science

2. Home, Safe Home

3. Electronics for Pleasure

4. Home, Smart Home

5. Mixers, Meters and Molecules 1989 查尔斯·A·泰勒Charles Taylor Exploring Music1. What Is Music?

2. The Essence of an Instrument

3. Science, Strings and Symphonies

4. Technology, Trumpets and Tunes

5. Scales, Synthesisers and Samplers  1990 Malcolm Longair Origins1. The Grand Design

2. The Birth of the Stars

3. The Origin of Quasars

4. The Origin of the Galaxies

5. The Origin of the Universe 1991 理查德·道金斯Richard Dawkins Growing Up in the Universe1. Waking Up in the Universe

2. Designed and Designoid Objects

3. Climbing Mount Improbable

4. The Ultraviolet Garden

5. The Genesis of Purpose 1992 Charles J. M. Stirling Our World Through the Looking Glass1. Man in the Mirror

2. Narwhals, Palindromes and Chesterfield Station

3. The Handed Molecule

4. Symmetry, Sensation and Sex

5. In the Hands of Giants 1993 弗兰克·克洛斯Frank Close The Cosmic Onion1. A is for Atoms

2. To the Centre of the Sun

3. Invaders from Outer Space

4. Anti-Matter Matters

5. An Hour to Make the Universe 1994 苏珊·格林菲尔德Susan Greenfield Journey to the Centre of the Brain1. The Electric Ape

2. Through a Glass Darkly

3. Bubble Bubble Toil and Trouble

4. The Seven Ages of the Brain

5. The Mind's I 1995 James Jackson Planet Earth, An Explorer's Guide1. On the Edge of the World

2. Secrets of the Deep

3. Volcanoes: Melting the Earth

4. The Puzzle of the Continents

5. Waterworld  1996 Simon Conway Morris The History in our Bones1. Staring into the Abyss
2. The Fossils Come Alive

3. The Great Dyings: Life after Death

4. Innovations And Novelty

5. Feet on the Ground, Head in the Stars: The History of Man 1997 艾恩·史都華Ian Stewart The Magical Maze1. Sunflowers and Snowflakes

2. The Pattern of Tiny Feet

3. Outrageous Fortune

4. Chaos and Cauliflowers

5. Fearful Symmetry  1998 Nancy Rothwell Staying Alive1. Sense and Sensitivity

2. Fats and figures

3. Chilling out

4. Times of our lives

5. Pushing the limits 1999 Neil F. Johnson Arrows of Time1. Back to the Future
2. Catching the Waves

3. The Quantum Leap

4. Edge of Chaos

5. Shaping the Future 2000 凱文·沃威克Kevin Warwick Rise of the Robots1. Anatomy of an Android

2. Things That Think

3. Remote Robots

4. Bionic Bodies

5. I, RobotChannel 4 2001 约翰·苏尔斯顿John Sulston The Secrets of Life1. What is life?

2. How do I grow?

3. What am I?

4. Can we fix it?

5. Future of life? 2002 Tony Ryan Smart Stuff1. The Spider that Spun a Suspension Bridge

2. The Trainer That Ran Over The World

3. The Phone that Shrank the Planet

4. The Plaster that Stretches Life

5. The Ice Cream that Will Freeze Granny 2003 Monica Grady Voyage in Space and Time1. Blast Off

2. Mission to Mars

3. Planet Patrol

4. Collision Course

5. Anybody Out There? 2004 Lloyd Peck Antarctica1. Ice People

2. Ice Life

3. Ice World 2005 John Krebs The Truth About Food1. The ape that cooks

2. Yuck or yummy?

3. You are what you eat

4. When food goes wrong

5. Food for the futureChannel Five 2006 马库斯·杜·索托伊Marcus du Sautoy The Num8er My5teries1. The curious incident of the never-ending numbers

2. The quest to predict the future

3. The story of the elusive shapes

4. The case of the uncrackable code

5. The secret of the winning streak 2007 Hugh Montgomery Back from the Brink: The Science of Survival1. Peak Performance

2. Completely Stuffed

3. Grilled and Chilled

4. Fight, Flight and Fright

5. Luck, Genes and Stupidity 2008 克里斯多福·畢曉普Christopher BishopHi-tech Trek高科技之旅1. Breaking the Speed Limit

2. Chips with Everything

3. The Ghost in the Machine

4. Untangling the Web

5. Digital Intelligence 2009 Sue HartleyThe 300-Million-Year War三亿年的战争1. Plant Wars

2. The Animals Strike Back

3. Talking Trees

4. Dangerous to Delicious

5. Weapons of the Future More4 2010 马克·米奥多尼克Mark MiodownikSize Matters尺寸迷思1. Why Elephants Can't Dance but Hamsters Can Skydive

2. Why Chocolate Melts and Jet Planes Don't

3. Why Mountains Are So SmallBBC Four 2011 Bruce Hood Meet Your Brain认识大脑1. What's in your head?

2. Who's in charge here anyway?

3. Are you thinking what I'm thinking? 2012 彼得·沃瑟斯Peter Wothers The Modern Alchemist现代炼金术士1. Air: the elixir of life

2. Water: the fountain of youth

3. Earth: the philosopher's stone 2013 艾丽森·伍拉德Alison Woollard Life Fantastic奇妙的生命1. Where do I come from?

2. Am I a Mutant?

3. Could I live forever? 2014 丹妮尔·乔治Danielle George Sparks will fly: How to Hack your Home让火花飞：如何利用你的家1. The light bulb moment

2. Making contact

3. A new revolution 2015 Kevin Fong How to survive in space如何在太空中生存1. Lift off!

2. Life in Orbit

3. The next frontier 2016 Saiful Islam Supercharged: Fuelling the future超限储能：驱动未来1. Let there be light!

2. People Power

3. Fully charged 2017 索菲·斯科特Sophie Scott The Language of Life生命的语言1. Say it with Sound

2. Silent Messages

3. The Word 2018 Alice Roberts
Aoife McLysaght Who am I?我是谁1. Where Do I Come From?

2. What Makes Me Human?

3. What Makes Me, Me? 2019 Hannah Fry Secrets and Lies: The Hidden Power of Maths1. How to Get Lucky

2. How to Bend the Rules

3. How Can We All Win?2020Christopher Jackson
海伦·切尔斯基Helen Czerski
Tara ShinePlanet Earth: A user's guide行星地球2021Jonathan Van-TamGoing viral: How Covid changed science forever1. The Invisible Enemy
2. The Perfect Storm

3. Fighting Back2022Sue BlackSecrets of Forensic Science1. Dead Body
2. Missing Body

3. Living Body2023迈克尔·沃德里奇Michael WooldridgeThe Truth about AIAI的真相*https://www.cgi.com/uk/en-gb/partnering-the-royal-institution-christmas-lectures 
 CGI Inc.
https://www.rigb.org/christmas-lectures/cgi-are-title-partner-christmas-lectures 1. How to Build an Intelligent Machine
2. My AI Life

3. The Future of AI: Dream or Nightmare?2024Chris van TullekenThe Truth About Food食品的真相1. From Tastebuds to Toilet

2. How Food Makes Us

3. The Big Food Hack

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