Science-Related Interests

Inventory list

Identifier	Title	Level of description	Date
37	Miscellaneous notes and narratives on aims and methods of science, for lectures at Malta and later.	File	1960s
38	'How are discoveries made?'	File
41	Book review of R. Calder: 'Profile of Science' and J.L. Synge: 'Science Sense and Nonsense'	File	May 1951
48	Shorter talks	File	1955
50	'The Next Fifty years of Power'	File	January 1956
55	'The Impact of science on modern life'.	File	January 1957
57	'Man may land on the moon a few years hence'.	File	October 1957
68	'Some possible scientific applications of the near future'. Article for The Stock Exchange Gazette	File	August 1960
71	'Belfast. Foreseeable Future'	File	c 1961
77	'One Europe: is it possible?' Talk on BBC European Service	File	April 1966
91	Shorter talks to schools and schoolmasters. Various dates	File	1952–60
95	'Science and War'. Talk given in America	File	December 1946
101	'Science and faith'	File	December 1945
62	Ms. notes for three talks on future sources of power, given in various places in America	File	April 1958
67	'Future of Mankind'. Lecture at Imperial Defence College	File	December 1959
74	Book review - R. Watson-Watt: `Man's Means to his End'. For New Scientist	File	November 1962
80	Speech at Norwich School	File	July 1955
82	Article for The Spectator on the proposed new 'Principles of Science' Tripos at Cambridge University.	File
86	Talk (on scientific publications) to Electrical and Allied Industries Research Association	File	May 1959
88	Talk at Technical Training Week Exhibition, Newmarket	File	May 1961
90	Ms. draft for paper or talk on allocation of research funds	File	nd
93	'The Scientific Attitude in Peace and War'.	File
98	'War as it looks to a scientist'. Talk at Shrivenham	File	February 1966
102	'Determinism in Science'. The Joule Memorial Lecture, given to the Manchester Literary and Philosophical Society,	File	1948
104	Lecture on science and religion, given at Great St. Mary's, Cambridge	File	February 1957
108	'Determinism in Science' paper given at a meeting of the Academia das Ciências de Lisboa	File
110	`Time-limited determinism in physical science'.	File	[1964]
112	Spiral-backed notebook, labelled 'Prediction of Complex events'.	File
119	'Prediction of Brain'.	File	20th cent
124	Ms. and typed version of Thomson's letter to J.R. Lucas, setting out his views on determinism and brain mechanism	File	September 1971