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prize lectures byfellows of the Royal Society onnatural history orexperimental philosophy .
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Examples
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In fact, in a perfect Bakerian moment, I had conflated the two--I had remembered U and I as beginning with that false alarm about Updike's death when it in fact begins with Barthelme's.
More on Updike: His Own Elegies Omnivoracious 2009
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In fact, in a perfect Bakerian moment, I had conflated the two--I had remembered U and I as beginning with that false alarm about Updike's death when it in fact begins with Barthelme's.
Shelfari: Omnivoracious 2009
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Note 27: Rutherford, "Bakerian Lecture, Nuclear Constitution of Atom" (1920),
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If I'm looking for the Bakeriest Baker, you can't get more Bakerian than that, really, and it does feature both the Daleks and Sarah Jane (though not at her most independent, it's true).
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Lecture to the Chemical Society in 1965, and the Bakerian Lecture to the Royal Society in 1966.
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Bakerian lecture of the Royal Society, for the foundation of which he left by will the sum of £100.
Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 2 "Baconthorpe" to "Bankruptcy" Various
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In 1801 he delivered the Bakerian lecture, his subject being "The Theory of Light and Colors."
A History of the Nineteenth Century, Year by Year Volume Two (of Three) Edwin Emerson 1914
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It was one of Davy's greatest triumphs to prove, in the series of experiments recorded in his famous Bakerian lecture of 1806, that the alleged creation of elements did not take place, the substances found at the poles of the battery having been dissolved from the walls of the vessels in which the water experimented upon had been placed.
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As early as 1793, when he was only twenty, Young had begun to Communicate papers to the Royal Society of London, which were adjudged worthy to be printed in full in the Philosophical Transactions; so it is not strange that he should have been asked to deliver the Bakerian lecture before that learned body the very first year after he came to London.
A History of Science: in Five Volumes. Volume III: Modern development of the physical sciences 1904
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The instrument formed the subject of the Bakerian lecture for the year 1871.
Heroes of the Telegraph John Munro 1889
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