The Royal Institution is among the world’s most established centres for research and scientific education. Founded in 1799 by the leading British scientists of the age including Henry Cavendish.
The institution still serves as a leading center for research and popularization of science, including the Christmas Lectures founded by Michael Faraday. Lectures are delivered in the famous Auditorium and on January 19th 2018, Felix Flicker, a theoretical physicist from Oxford University gave his talk entitled “The puzzling paradoxes of modern physics”, in the course of which he also introduced the Gömböc as a ‘veridical paradox‘, i.e. something which appears impossible but is actually true.