Pilgrim Trust Lecture
The Pilgrim Trust Lecture was a lecture supported by the Pilgrim Trust, organised by the Royal Society of London and the National Academy of Sciences. It was held between 1938 and 1945.[1]
List of lecturers
| Year | Name | Lecture | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1938 | Irving Langmuir | Molecular films | — |
| 1939 | William Henry Bragg | History in the Archives of the Royal Society. | — |
| 1940 | Lawrence Joseph Henderson | Not delivered due to illness | — |
| 1943 | Karl Taylor Compton | Organization of American Scientists for the war. | — |
| 1945 | Hermann Joseph Muller | The gene. | — |
gollark: Insurance providers make those decisions *too*, but opaquely.
gollark: The US system would probably be better if it actually had incentives for costs to not be insanely high.
gollark: Overly expensive as a % of GDP, convoluted and bureaucratic, not even functional in many important cases.
gollark: It *is* apparently terrible in various ways.
gollark: > those 2 solve like 80% of our current problems tbhI'm not convinced that there wouldn't just be unofficial lobbying-type stuff happening another way.
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