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。 歷年講座 沒有電視直播的年代：1825 到 1965 年份 演講者 主題 1825 John Millington 自然哲學 1826 John Wallis 解剖學 1827 麥可法拉第 化學 1828 J Wood 建築學 1829 麥可法拉第 電學 1830 Thomas Webster 地質學 1831 James Rennie 動物學 1832 麥可法拉第 化學 1833 約翰林德利 植物學 1834 威廉托馬斯布蘭德 Chemistry 1835 麥可法拉第 Electricity 1836 威廉托馬斯布蘭德 Chemistry of the Gases 1837 麥可法拉第 Chemistry 1838 John Wallis Astronomy 1839 威廉托馬斯布蘭德 The Chemistry of the Atmosphere and the Ocean 1840 約翰弗雷德里克丹尼爾 The First Principles of Franklinic Electricity 1841 麥可法拉第 The Rudiments of Chemistry 1842 威廉托馬斯布蘭德 The Chemistry of the NonMetallic Elements 1843 麥可法拉第 First Principles of Electricity 1844 威廉托馬斯布蘭德 The Chemistry of the Gases 1845 麥可法拉第 The Rudiments of Chemistry 1846 John Wallis The Rudiments of Astronomy 1847 威廉托馬斯布蘭德 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 威廉托馬斯布蘭德 The Chemistry of Coal 1851 麥可法拉第 Attractive Forces 1852 麥可法拉第 Chemistry 1853 麥可法拉第 Voltaic Electricity 1854 麥可法拉第 The Chemistry of Combustion 1855 麥可法拉第 The Distinctive Properties of the Common Metals 1856 麥可法拉第 Attractive Forces 1857 麥可法拉第 Static Electricity 1858 麥可法拉第 The Metallic Properties 1859 麥可法拉第 The Various Forces of Matter and their Relations to Each Other 1860 麥可法拉第 The Chemical History of a Candle 1861 約翰丁達爾 Light 1862 愛德華弗蘭克蘭 Air and Water 1863 約翰丁達爾 Electricity at Rest and Electricity in Motion 1864 愛德華弗蘭克蘭 The Chemistry of a Coal 1865 約翰丁達爾 Sound 1866 愛德華弗蘭克蘭 The Chemistry of Gases 1867 約翰丁達爾 Heat and Cold 1868 威廉奧德林 The Chemical Changes of Carbon 1869 約翰丁達爾 Light 1870 威廉奧德林 Burning and Unburning 1871 約翰丁達爾 Ice Water Vapour and Air 1872 威廉奧德林 Air and Gas 1873 約翰丁達爾 The Motion and Sensation of Sound 1874 約翰賀爾格萊斯頓 The Voltaic Battery 1875 約翰丁達爾 Experimental Electricity 1876 約翰賀爾格萊斯頓 The Chemistry of Fire 1877 約翰丁達爾 Heat Visible and Invisible 1878 詹姆斯杜瓦 A Soap Bubble 1879 約翰丁達爾 Water and Air 1880 詹姆斯杜瓦 Atoms 1881 羅伯特斯德威爾鮑爾 The Sun the Moon and the Planets 1882 約翰丁達爾 Light and the Eye 1883 詹姆斯杜瓦 Alchemy in Relation to Modern Science 1884 約翰丁達爾 The Sources of Electricity 1885 詹姆斯杜瓦 The Story of a Meteorite 1886 詹姆斯杜瓦 The Chemistry of Light and Photography 1887 羅伯特斯德威爾鮑爾 Astronomy 1888 詹姆斯杜瓦 Clouds and Cloudland 1889 Arthur Rücker Electricity 1890 詹姆斯杜瓦 霜與火 1891 約翰格雷麥肯特列克 Life in Motion or the Animal Machine 1892 羅伯特斯德威爾鮑爾 Astronomy 1893 詹姆斯杜瓦 空氣：氣體和液體 1894 約翰弗萊明 電流作的功 1895 約翰格雷麥肯特列克 Sound Hearing and Speech 1896 Sylvanus Phillips Thompson Light Visible and Invisible 1897 Oliver Lodge The Principles of the Electric Telegraph 1898 羅伯特斯德威爾鮑爾 Astronomy 1899 查理士凡而儂波伊斯 運動和靜止狀態下的流體 1900 羅伯特斯德威爾鮑爾 Great Chapters from the Book of Nature 1901 約翰弗萊明 水、空氣和以太的波浪和漣漪 1902 Henry Selby HeleShaw Locomotion On the Earth Through the Water in the Air 1903 E雷蘭克斯特 Extinct Animals 1904 Henry Cunynghame Ancient and Modern Methods of Measuring Time 1905 赫伯特霍爾特納 Astronomy 1906 威廉達德爾 Signalling to a Distance 1907 戴維吉爾 新舊天文學 1908 威廉斯特林 The Wheel of Life 1909 威廉達德爾 Modern Electricity 1910 Sylvanus Phillips Thompson Sound Musical and NonMusical 1911 Peter Chalmers Mitchell The Childhood of Animals 1912 詹姆斯杜瓦 最後一次聖誕講座 1913 赫伯特霍爾特納 A Voyage in Space 1914 查理士凡而儂波伊斯 住宅中的科學 1915 赫伯特霍爾特納 Wireless Messages from the Stars 1916 阿瑟基思 The Human Machine Which All Must Work 1917 約翰弗萊明 我們有用的僕人：磁和電 1918 達西湯普森 The Fish of the Sea 1919 威廉亨利布拉格 聲音的世界 1920 John Arthur Thomson The Haunts of Life 1921 約翰弗萊明 電波與無線電話 1922 赫伯特霍爾特納 Six Steps Up the Ladder to the Stars 1923 威廉亨利布拉格 關於事物的本質 1924 Francis BalfourBrowne Concerning the Habits of Insects 1925 威廉亨利布拉格 老手藝與新知識 1926 阿奇博爾德希爾 神經和肌肉：我們的感覺和運動 1927 愛德華安德拉德 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 穿越時空 1934 威廉勞倫斯布拉格 電 1935 Charles Edward Kenneth Mees Photography 1936 傑弗裡泰勒 輪船 1937 朱利安赫胥黎 珍稀野生動物的消失 1938 James Kendall Young Chemists and Great Discoveries 19391942 因第二次世界大戰爆發而暫停 因第二次世界大戰爆發而暫停 1943 愛德華安德拉德 Vibrations and Waves 1944 Harold Spencer Jones Astronomy in our Daily Life 1945 勞勃華生 瓦特 無線電報 1946 Hamilton Hartridge Colours and How We See Them 1947 埃裡克凱特利裡德爾 Chemical Reactions How They Work 1948 弗雷德里克巴特萊特 工作和娛樂的大腦 1949 Percy Dunsheath The Electric Current 1950 愛德華安德拉德 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 弗蘭克惠特爾 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 國際地球物理年 1959 Thomas Allibone The Release and Use of Atomic Energy 1960 Vernon Ellis Cosslett Seeing the Very Small 1961 威廉勞倫斯布拉格 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 GrahamSmith 馬丁賴爾、安東尼休伊什 Exploration of the Universe 電視直播的年代：1966 至今 年份 演講者 主題 分節標題 電視臺 1966 埃裡克萊思韋特 Eric Laithwaite The Engineer in Wonderland 仙境中的工程師 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 Its the Oldest Rule in the Book BBC Two 1967 理查德L格里高利 Richard Langton Gregory The Intelligent Eye 聰明的眼睛 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 FutureMachines that See BBC Two 1968 菲利普莫里森 Philip Morrison Gullivers Laws The Physics of Large and Small 格列佛定律：關於大和小的物理學 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 BBC Two 1969 喬治波特 George Porter Time Machines 時間機器 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 BBC Two 1970 約翰R內皮爾 John Napier Monkeys Without Tails A Giraffes Eyeview of Man 沒有尾巴的猴子：長頸鹿眼中的人類 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 Whats the idea of shooting at us BBC Two 1971 查爾斯A泰勒 Charles Taylor Sounds of Music The Science of Tones and Tune 音樂之聲：音調和曲調的科學 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 BBC Two 1972 Geoffrey G Gouriet Ripples in the Ether The Science of Radio Communication 1 How It All Began 2 Getting Rid of the Wires 3 The Sound of Broadcasting 4 Pictures With and Without Wires 5 But Electrons arent Coloured 6 Vision of the Future BBC Two 1973 戴維阿滕伯勒 David Attenborough The Language of Animals 動物的語言 1 Beware 2 Be Mine 3 Parents and Children 4 Simple Signs and Complicated Communications 5 Foreign Languages 6 Animal Language Human Language BBC Two 1974 埃裡克萊思韋特 Eric Laithwaite The Engineer Through the Looking Glass 1 Looking Glass House 2 Tweedledum and Tweedledee 3 Jam Yesterday Jam Tomorrow 4 The Jabberwock 5 The Time has come the Walrus said 6 Its my own Invention BBC Two 1975 Heinz Wolff Signals from the Interior 1 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 BBC Two 1976 喬治波特 George Porter The Natural History of a Sunbeam 1 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 BBC Two 1977 卡爾薩根 Carl Sagan The Planets 1 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 BBC Two 1978 埃裡克克里斯托弗齊曼 Erik Christopher Zeeman Mathematics into Pictures 1 Linking and Knotting 2 Numbers and Geometry 3 Infinity and Perspective 4 Games and Evolution 5 Waves and Music 6 Catastrophe and Psychology BBC Two 1979 Eric M Rogers Atoms for Engineering Minds A Circus of Experiments 1 Getting to Know Atoms 2 Molecules in Motion 3 Electrified Atoms 4 Atoms that Explode 5 Atoms and Energy 6 Seeing Atoms at Last BBC Two 1980 大衛奇爾頓菲利浦斯 馬克斯佩魯茨演講了第 5 節 David Chilton Phillipswith Max Perutz in Lecture 5 The Chicken the Egg and the Molecules 1 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 BBC Two 1981 Reginald Victor Jones From Magna Carta to Microchip 1 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 BBC Two 1982 科林布萊克默 Colin Blakemore Common Sense 1 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 BBC Two 1983 Leonard Maunder Machines in Motion 1 Driving Forces 2 Gathering Momentum 3 Vibration 4 Under Control 5 Fluids and Flight 6 Living Machines BBC Two 1984 沃爾特博德默爾 Walter Bodmer The Message of the Genes 1 Were 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 BBC Two 1985 約翰大衛皮耶 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 BBC Two 1986 劉易斯沃爾珀特 Lewis Wolpert Frankensteins Quest Development of Life 1 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 BBC Two 1987 約翰默瑞格托馬斯和大衛菲利普斯 John Meurig Thomas and David Phillips Crystals and Lasers 晶體與雷射器 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 BBC Two 1988 Gareth Roberts The Home of the Future 1 Appliance Science 2 Home Safe Home 3 Electronics for Pleasure 4 Home Smart Home 5 Mixers Meters and Molecules BBC Two 1989 查爾斯A泰勒 Charles Taylor Exploring Music 1 What Is Music 2 The Essence of an Instrument 3 Science Strings and Symphonies 4 Technology Trumpets and Tunes 5 Scales Synthesisers and Samplers BBC Two 1990 Malcolm Longair Origins 1 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 BBC Two 1991 理查德道金斯 Richard Dawkins Growing Up in the Universe 1 Waking Up in the Universe 2 Designed and Designoid Objects 3 Climbing Mount Improbable 4 The Ultraviolet Garden 5 The Genesis of Purpose BBC Two 1992 Charles J M Stirling Our World Through the Looking Glass 1 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 BBC Two 1993 弗蘭克克洛斯 Frank Close The Cosmic Onion 1 A is for Atoms 2 To the Centre of the Sun 3 Invaders from Outer Space 4 AntiMatter Matters 5 An Hour to Make the Universe BBC Two 1994 蘇珊格林菲爾德 Susan Greenfield Journey to the Centre of the Brain 1 The Electric Ape 2 Through a Glass Darkly 3 Bubble Bubble Toil and Trouble 4 The Seven Ages of the Brain 5 The Minds I BBC Two 1995 James Jackson Planet Earth An Explorers Guide 1 On the Edge of the World 2 Secrets of the Deep 3 Volcanoes Melting the Earth 4 The Puzzle of the Continents 5 Waterworld BBC Two 1996 Simon Conway Morris The History in our Bones 1 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 BBC Two 1997 艾恩史都華 Ian Stewart The Magical Maze 1 Sunflowers and Snowflakes 2 The Pattern of Tiny Feet 3 Outrageous Fortune 4 Chaos and Cauliflowers 5 Fearful Symmetry BBC Two 1998 Nancy Rothwell Staying Alive 1 Sense and Sensitivity 2 Fats and figures 3 Chilling out 4 Times of our lives 5 Pushing the limits BBC Two 1999 Neil F Johnson Arrows of Time 1 Back to the Future 2 Catching the Waves 3 The Quantum Leap 4 Edge of Chaos 5 Shaping the Future BBC Two 2000 凱文沃威克 Kevin Warwick Rise of the Robots 1 Anatomy of an Android 2 Things That Think 3 Remote Robots 4 Bionic Bodies 5 I Robot Channel 4 2001 約翰蘇爾斯頓 John Sulston The Secrets of Life 1 What is life 2 How do I grow 3 What am I 4 Can we fix it 5 Future of life Channel 4 2002 Tony Ryan Smart Stuff 1 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 Channel 4 2003 Monica Grady Voyage in Space and Time 1 Blast Off 2 Mission to Mars 3 Planet Patrol 4 Collision Course 5 Anybody Out There Channel 4 2004 Lloyd Peck Antarctica 1 Ice People 2 Ice Life 3 Ice World Channel 4 2005 John Krebs The Truth About Food 1 The ape that cooks 2 Yuck or yummy 3 You are what you eat 4 When food goes wrong 5 Food for the future Channel Five 2006 馬庫斯杜索托伊 Marcus du Sautoy The Num8er My5teries 1 The curious incident of the neverending 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 Channel Five 2007 Hugh Montgomery Back from the Brink The Science of Survival 1 Peak Performance 2 Completely Stuffed 3 Grilled and Chilled 4 Fight Flight and Fright 5 Luck Genes and Stupidity Channel Five 2008 克里斯多福畢曉普 Christopher Bishop Hitech 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 Channel Five 2009 Sue Hartley The 300MillionYear War 三億年的戰爭 1 Plant Wars 2 The Animals Strike Back 3 Talking Trees 4 Dangerous to Delicious 5 Weapons of the Future More4 2010 馬克米奧多尼克 Mark Miodownik Size Matters 尺寸迷思 1 Why Elephants Cant Dance but Hamsters Can Skydive 2 Why Chocolate Melts and Jet Planes Dont 3 Why Mountains Are So Small BBC Four 2011 Bruce Hood Meet Your Brain 認識大腦 1 Whats in your head 2 Whos in charge here anyway 3 Are you thinking what Im thinking BBC Four 2012 彼得沃瑟斯 Peter Wothers The Modern Alchemist 現代鍊金術士 1 Air the elixir of life 2 Water the fountain of youth 3 Earth the philosophers stone BBC Four 2013 艾麗森伍拉德 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 BBC Four 2014 丹妮爾喬治 Danielle George Sparks will fly How to Hack your Home 讓火花飛：如何利用你的家 1 The light bulb moment 2 Making contact 3 A new revolution BBC Four 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 BBC Four 2016 Saiful Islam Supercharged Fuelling the future 超限儲能：驅動未來 1 Let there be light 2 People Power 3 Fully charged BBC Four 2017 索菲斯科特 Sophie Scott The Language of Life 生命的語言 1 Say it with Sound 2 Silent Messages 3 The Word BBC Four 2018 Alice Roberts Aoife McLysaght Who am I 我是誰 1 Where Do I Come From 2 What Makes Me Human 3 What Makes Me Me BBC Four 2019 Hannah Fry Secrets and Lies The Hidden Power of Maths 1 How to Get Lucky 2 How to Bend the Rules 3 How Can We All Win BBC Four 2020 Christopher Jackson 海倫切爾斯基 Helen Czerski Tara Shine Planet Earth A users guide 行星地球 BBC Four 2021 Jonathan VanTam Going viral How Covid changed science forever 1 The Invisible Enemy 2 The Perfect Storm 3 Fighting Back BBC Four 2022 Sue Black Secrets of Forensic Science 1 Dead Body 2 Missing Body 3 Living Body 2023 邁克爾沃德里奇 Michael Wooldridge The Truth about AIAI 的真相 httpswwwcgicomukengbpartneringtheroyalinstitutionchristmaslectures CGI Inc httpswwwrigborgchristmaslecturescgiaretitlepartnerchristmaslectures 1 How to Build an Intelligent Machine 2 My AI Life 3 The Future of AI Dream or Nightmare 2024 Chris van Tulleken The Truth About Food 食品的真相 1 From Tastebuds to Toilet 2 How Food Makes Us 3 The Big Food Hack 參考書目 外部連結 臺灣【探索基礎科學講座】 靈感來自於英國皇家科學院 19 世紀開始的皇家科學耶誕講座 Category 英國第五臺電視節目 Category 英國年度事件 Category1825 年英國建立