The Royal Institution of Great Britain is renowned the world over,
first, because it is a premier arena for the advancement of new
scientific and technological knowledge; and second because it
highlights the advance of knowledge of all kinds. It bridges the
sciences and the humanities, and as much publicity is given to
advances in the arts, archaeology, architecture, drama and
literature as to the pure and applied sciences. More famous
scientists have lived and worked in the Royal Institution than in
any other laboratory in the world. A roll-call includes Rumford,
Davy, Faraday, Tyndall, Dewar, Rayleigh, W. H. Bragg, W. L. Bragg
and George Porter. Not is it only the home of continuous
electricity, it is also the birthplace of many aspects of molecular
biology and viruses and enzymology. Some fifteen scientists who
have won the Nobel Prize have, at one time or another, worked or
lectured at the RI. And eminent individuals, like Howard Carter and
Coleridge, have lectured there. Albemarle Street - Portraits,
Personalities and Presentations at The Royal institution is a
lively and compelling personal selection of the remarkable
personalities and achievements of some of the extraordinary
scientists and individuals who, during the nineteenth and twentieth
centuries, worked or lectured at 21 Albemarle Street in Mayfair,
central London. John Meurig Thomas offers a unique and valuable
insight into the history of this prestigious address, having
himself lived and worked at the Royal Institution for some twenty
years.
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