The BA... Lord Browne's Presidential Address - Science, Engineering and Society 

The BA Presidential Address given by Lord Browne of Madingley at the BA Festival of Science on Thursday 13 September 2007 at 16.00 It is a great pleasure and a tremendous honour to be President of the ... BA in its 176th year. The British Association for the Advancement of Science first met here in York on September the 27th, 1831. During that meeting David Brewster, the Editor of the Edinburgh Journal of Science, and William Harcourt, the Chairman of the Yorkshire Philosophical Society, formally proposed the foundation of, I quote: "a British Association for the Advancement of science having for its objects to give a stronger and more systematic direction to scientific inquiry, to obtain a greater degree of national attention to the objects of science and a removal of those disadvantages which impede its progress and to promote the intercourse of the cultivators of science with one another and with foreign philosophers.” Since then, there has been a meeting every year, except in warti   [More...] [Less...]