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The Royal Institution Lecture Theatre where the Christmas Lectures are held 0 December 30, 2020 14:00 by Matthew Bird
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Everyone has their own Christmas traditions. Perhaps you like opening your advent calendar every day, decorating your Christmas tree, or going carolling. But what about watching the Royal Institution Christmas Lectures?
The Lectures have been held every Christmastime since 1825, hosted by the Royal Institution, with the aims of making science more accessible and inspiring the next generation of great scientists.
The first Royal Institution Christmas Lecture was hosted by the British engineer John Millington. In 1936 it became the UK’s first science TV series. They were created by Michael Faraday who also hosted the lectures on nineteen separate occasions, at a time when organised education for young people was scarce.
“Abdus Salam 1926-1996, Physicist, Nobel Laureate and Champion of Science in developing countries, lived here,”
In 1979 Abdus Salam, Sheldon Glashow, and Steven Weinberg were awarded the Nobel Prize for Physics for their contributions to the theory of unified weak and electromagnetic interaction between elementary particles. Nobel Laureates Ceremony in 1979. pic.twitter.com/X3BhUQGUnG
Founder of the Theoretical Physics Department at Imperial College London, the scientist resided there from 1957 till 1996, when he passed away.
According to a tweet, Professor Michael Duff an apprentice of the Pakistani physicist lauded the development and looked back at Abdus Salam’s contributions to science.