| Year | 
            Recipient | 
            Lecture | 
        
        
            | 2019 | 
            Dr Ian Fotheringham  | 
            'Adapt, Survive and Thrive… how biotech companies can learn from nature' | 
        
        
            | 2015 | 
            Prof Joe Sweeney | 
            'Chemistry What Use is it Now?' | 
        
        
            | 2001 | 
            B Grote | 
            'The Energy Industry of the 21st Century: Addressing the Challenges Ahead' | 
        
        
            | 1997 | 
            Sir William Stewart | 
            'Biotechnology - The Genie is out of the Bottle' | 
        
        
            | 1989 | 
            Lord Todd | 
            'Two Centuries of Chemistry and the Chemical Industry - A Retrospect' | 
        
        
            | 1982 | 
            J Edelman | 
            'Food, Chemistry and Cuisine' | 
        
        
            | 1978 | 
            D S Davies | 
            'The Resurgence of the Engineer' | 
        
        
            | 1972 | 
            R Hessayon | 
            'Homo Sapiens - The Species the Conservationist Forgot' | 
        
        
            | 1966 | 
            A Kent | 
            'Pyrites - The Fiery Stone' | 
        
        
            | 1964 | 
            Lady Crathorne | 
            'From Farm to Factory and High Finance in Four Generations' | 
        
        
            | 1960 | 
            A R Ubbelohde | 
            'Melting and Freezing' | 
        
        
            | 1957 | 
            H W Melville | 
            'The Use of Radio Tracers and High Energy Radiations in High Polymer Chemistry' | 
        
        
            | 1952 | 
            A Fleck | 
            'The British Sulphuric Acid Industry - A Retrospect and a Research Prospect' | 
        
        
            | 1947 | 
            E W J Tennant | 
            'The Early Chemical Struggles of St Rollox Works' | 
        
        
            | 1943 | 
            Sir William Alexander | 
            'Charles Tennant' |