' The Humanity of Science'
A. V. HILL, F.R.S.
In this series of talks, which began on October 6, and is to finish tonight, working scientists themselves have told listeners about the investigations on which they are engaged, the problems they are faced with, and the methods they are using to solve them. Insect pests, invisible viruses, cosmic rays with powers of penetration hitherto unimagined, the working of the human ear, colours in flowers, missing links in Africa—such things as these are being investigated and all have been dis-, cussed in the series.
Tonight, in the concluding talk,
Professor Hill, one of the most distinguished physiologists in the world, is going to show how a great deal of very important scientific work has been the outcome of social needs ; and how, through research work and experiment out of which inventions come, the scientist has a real place in the community.
Professor Hill won the Nobel Prize for Medicine in 1922. He is Honorary Professor at University College, London; has been Foulerton Research Professor for the Royal Society since 1926, and has just been re-elected its Secretary.