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BJF, 1996, How Science Really Happened, Cambridge: Eumenides, January.
BJF, 1996, Chairman of Sixth Form Lecture, London: Burlington House, February.
BJF, 1996, Developing Science, a Revisionist View, London: Kew Gardens, March.
BJF, 1996, Bovine spongiform encephalopathy, Derby: Townswomen's Guild, July.
BJF, 1998, Lectures at Inter Micro 1996:
BJF, 1996, Hidden Secrets of the Royal Society Archive Belfast: Linnen Society, August.
BJF, 1996, Creative Mind Management London: Mosimann Academy, August.
BJF, 1996, BSE, Cambridge: Polynous, September.
BJF, 1996, Speech day prize-giving, Peterborough Cathedral, September.
BJF, 1996, Chairman’s address, Crewe: Comittee for History of Biology, September.
BJF, 1996, Ethnic Foods , London: Mosimann Academy, September.
BJF, 1996, BSE - The Facts, Cardiff: Dept of Biosciences, October.
BJF, 1996, BSE and the Public, Newcastle: Townswomen's Guild, October.
BJF, 1996, BSE and the Public, Nottingham: Townswomen's Guild, November.
BJF, 1996, The Biodiversity meeting at Leiden and European zoological research, Frankfurt, December.
BJF, 1997, Experiments with Animals - a Communicator’s View, London: Institute of Biology, February.
BJF, 1997, Chairman of Heinz Wolff lecture, Cambridge: Society for Application of Research, February.
BJF, 1997, This House believes that Machines will never be Conscious, Glasgow: Robotics Conference, March.
BJF, 1997, Chairman of: Are Natural Therapies Safe and Effective? London: British Pharmaceutical Society, March.
BJF, 1997, Address for Sir Colin Spedding, Cambridge: Society for Application of Research, April.
BJF, 1997, The Birth of Crystallography and the Dawn of Duplicity, University of London: Birkbeck College, May.
BJF, 1997, Science, Politics and the Reality of BSE, Sandwich: Pfizer Research Centre, May.
BJF, 1997, Annual address, Cardiff, May.
BJF, 1997, Earliest days of the Optical Microscope, Italy: University of Padua, June.
BJF, 1997, Politics and science in the saga of BSE, Italy: University of Verona, June.
BJF, 1997, Lectures at Inter Micro 1997:
BJF, 1997, The discovery of Brownian movement, Michigan: Dow Corning Inc., October.
BJF, 1997, BSE - the Myth and Mystery of Spongiform Diseases, Midland Chapter: Sigma Phi, October.
BJF, 1997, Leeuwenhoek and the Birth of Biological Microscopy, USA, October.
BJF, 1997, Antony van Leeuwenhoek and the Single Lens Microscope, Los Angeles: Southern California Microscopical Society, October.
BJF, 1997, The van Leeuwenhoek Specimens, San Francisco Microscopical Society, October.
BJF, 1997, Chairman of Making Science Pay, Cambridge: Society for Application of Research, November.
BJF, 1997, Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy, Science and Politics in a contemporary context, Plymouth: Institute of Biology, November.
BJF, 1997, Chairman of Making Science Pay, with Madsen Pirie, Cambridge: Society for Application of Research, November.
BJF, 1997, Chairman of cystic fibrosis gene therapy meeting, Cambridge: Society for Application of Research, December.
BJF, 1998, Chairman's introduction for Dulcie Gray lecture 'Butterflies on my Mind', Burlington House: Linnean Society, January.
BJF, 1998, How can we ensure our food is safe? Lecture, Cambridge: Polynous, February.
BJF, 1998, Where science really came from? address to South Cambridgeshire Rotary, Cambridge.
BJF, 1998, Chairman’s introduction for Lady Mary Archer lecture ‘Capturing the Energy of the Sun’, Cambridge, March.
BJF, 1998, vote of thanks for Terence Mansfield FRS lecture ‘Stomata, the sense organs of plants’, Manchester Metropolitan University, March.
BJF, 1998, Lectures at Inter Micro 1998:
[McCrone, Walter, 1998, review of BJF presentations at Inter Micro 98, On the Intelligence of Microbes, p228, 'Many of us come to INTER/MICRO meetings with one of our main objectives to find out what Brian has thought of next. He is unique, a scholar, innovative, highly practical in his fields of biology and microscopy, and a super storyteller, making any subject come exciting and alive.' Designing a Laser Microscope for Space, p230, 'It is very apparent that the European Space Agency went to the right man for their new space scope.' Robert Hooke's Micrographia, p240, '... the opportunity to see and hear the masters of microscopy discourse and demonstrate their particular skills.' The Microscope, 46 (4): 228, 230, 240].
BJF, 1998, Recreating the Birth of Modern Science, Cambridge University, November.
BJF, 1998, How the Microscope was Born, London: Royal Institution, December.
BJF, 1998, Chairman's introduction for Lady Mary Archer lecture Capturing the Energy of the Sun, Cambridge: Society for the Application of Research, March.
BJF, 1998, Chairman's address for Professor Jack Cohen lecture The magical maze, Cambridge Socity for the Application of Research, Cambridge: Churchill College, December.
BJF, 1999, Vote of thanks for Dr John Cummings lecture ‘Feeding the microbes in the Intestine’, Cambridge Society for the Application of Research, 2030h, 25 January.
BJF, 1999, After-dinner address at Annual Dinner with Sir David Attenborough at the Royal Society, Institute of Biology, London, 2115-2130h, 23 April
BJF, 1999, Chairman of Stephen Jay Gould on Sedgwick and Darwin, Morisson Room, Cambridge University Library, 1130-1230h, 24 April.
BJF, 1999, address to Business School Management Board, Milton Keynes: Open University, 1045h, 17 June.
BJF, 1999, Lectures at Inter Micro 99:
Note also: McCrone, W., Brian J Ford at Inter Micro (with photographs), opening address; Lee, Richard, on BJF’s orbiting microscope and possible low-power video microscopes; and Barnett, Peter, on the address by BJF to the San Francisco Microsopical Society, ibid.
BJF, 1999, The past and the future of genetic modification, lecture to Mensa at Cambridge, Magdalene College, 1100-1230h, 3 September.
BJF, 1999, Robert Brown and the origins of Brownian Movement, Lecture to Pacific Congress, Los Angeles, 6 October.
BJF, 1999, Did Robert Brown observe what he claimed? Lecture to Southern California Microscopical Society, Venice, California, 13 October.
BJF, 1999, 1000 Years of the Application of Research (millennium lecture), Churchill College, Cambridge University, 6 December.
BJF, 1999, After dinner address, Open University Law School, 14 December.
BJF, 2000, chairman of The New Millennium, lecture by Richard Artley, Society for the Application of Research, Churchill College Cambridge, 2030-2200h, 17 January.
BJF, 2000, Vote of thanks for Monica M Grady lecture ‘Martian microbes, the meteorite evidence’, Cambridge: Society for the Application of Research, Churchill College,2030-2200h, 14 February.
BJF, 2000, Recreating the Origins of Modern Biology, 120th Anniversary & Millennium Lecture, Manchester Microscopical Society, Stopford Building, Medical School, University of Manchester, 2000h, 17 February.
BJF, 2000, Chairman’s address to A Century of Genetics conference, London: History Network of the Intitute of Biology, 8 May.
BJF, 2000, Hidden secrets in the Royal Society library, illustrated lecture to Friends of the University Library, Cambridge, 13 May, 1100-1200h.
BJF, 2000, Chairman of Computation and New Materials, lecture by Alan Windle, Society for the Application of Research, Churchill College Cambridge, 2030-2200h, 22 May.
BJF, 2000, The Amateurs who Give us Science (seminar), London: Institute of Cultural Research, 1430-1630h, 27 May.
BJF, 2000, Mad Cows 2000, lecture to State Microscopical Society of Illinois, McCrone Research Institute, 1800-1900h, 23 June.
BJF, 2000, Lectures to Inter Micro 2000:
BJF, 2000, You, the genius, elective presentation on individuals as innovators. Summer School on Creativity and Innovation, Homerton College Cambridge: Open University Business School, 1600-1800h, 9 July.
BJF, 2000, What Future for Food? lecture to Ways with Words, Dartington Conference, 1130-1230h, 13 July.
BJF, 2000, Science and the Future of Food, extemporised presentation to Sainsbury's, Stamford Street, London, 1100-1200h, 4 September
BJF, 2000, Tracing the Roots of Modern Bioscience, illustrated lecture, Georgia Microscopical Society, Atlanta: Fernbank Science Center, 1900-2000h, 27 September.
BJF, 2000, Revelations of the First Microsopes, illustrated lecture, New York Microscopical Society, New York: American Museum of Natural History, 1900-2000h, 28 September.
BJF, 2000, The Institute - Past, Present and Future, Institute of Biology Prestige Lecture, Aston University, Birmingham, 1930-2030h, 11 October.
BJF, 2000, Chairman of Sir Colin Spedding lecture on Conservation and Sustainability, History Network lunchtime meeting, Manchester Metropolitan University, Crew and Alsager College, 1400-1500h, 25 October.
BJF, 2000, The microscope and the birth of bioscience, Cavendish Laboratory seminar, Universitry of Cambridge, 1430-1530h, 27 October.
BJF, 2000, One man's waste is another man's breakfast, lecture to Waste Management Consultation, St George's House, Windsor Castle, 1130-1200h, 11 November.
BJF, 2000, vote of thanks to Thomas Duke lecture on cellular engines, Cambridge Society for the Application of Research, 2030-2200, 27 November.
BJF, 2000, A celebration of biology at Christmas, sixth form branch lecture, Institute of Biology, University of Central Lancashire, 1300-1400h, 7 December.
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