The Clifford Paterson Lecture is a prize lecture of the Royal Society now given biennially on an engineering topic.
A £500 gift is given to the lecturer.
[1] The lectures, which honour Clifford Copland Paterson,[2] founder-director of the GEC Wembley Research Laboratories 1918-1948, were instituted by the General Electric Company plc in 1975.
Not to be confused with the Institute of Physics Clifford Paterson Medal and Prize.
Lecturers include:[3]