Global InformationFellow of the Royal Society information
| Fellowship of the Royal Society | |
|---|---|
 Headquarters of the Royal Society in Carlton House Terrace in London | |
| Awarded for | "Contributions to the improvement of natural knowledge"[1] |
| Sponsored by | Royal Society |
| Date | 1663 |
| Location | London |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Total no. Fellows | Approximately 8,000[2] (1,743 living Fellows) |
Fellowship of the Royal Society (FRS, ForMemRS and HonFRS) is an award granted by the Fellows of the Royal Society of London to individuals who have made a "substantial contribution to the improvement of natural knowledge, including mathematics, engineering science, and medical science".[1]
Fellowship of the Society, the oldest known scientific academy in continuous existence, is a significant honour. It has been awarded to many eminent scientists throughout history, including Isaac Newton (1672),[2] Benjamin Franklin (1756), Charles Babbage (1816), [2] Michael Faraday (1824),[2] Charles Darwin (1839),[2] Ernest Rutherford (1903),[3] Srinivasa Ramanujan (1918),[4] Albert Einstein (1921),[5] Paul Dirac (1930), Winston Churchill (1941), Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar (1944),[6] Dorothy Hodgkin (1947),[7] Alan Turing (1951),[8] Lise Meitner (1955)[9] and Francis Crick (1959).[10][11] More recently, fellowship has been awarded to Stephen Hawking (1974), David Attenborough (1983), Tim Hunt (1991), Elizabeth Blackburn (1992), Raghunath Mashelkar (1998), Tim Berners-Lee (2001), Venki Ramakrishnan (2003), Atta-ur-Rahman (2006),[12] Andre Geim (2007),[13] James Dyson (2015), Ajay Kumar Sood (2015), Subhash Khot (2017), Elon Musk (2018),[14] Elaine Fuchs (2019) and around 8,000 others in total,[2] including over 280 Nobel Laureates since 1900. As of October 2018[update], there are approximately 1,689 living Fellows, Foreign and Honorary Members, of whom 85 are Nobel Laureates.[15]
Fellowship of the Royal Society has been described by The Guardian as "the equivalent of a lifetime achievement Oscar"[16] with several institutions celebrating their announcement each year.[17][18][19][20][21][22][23]
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- ^ Neville, Eric Harold (1921). "The Late Srinivasa Ramanujan". Nature. 106 (2673): 661–662. Bibcode:1921Natur.106..661N. doi:10.1038/106661b0. S2CID 4185656. Archived from the original on 27 November 2020. Retrieved 30 June 2019.
- ^ Whittaker, E. (1955). "Albert Einstein. 1879–1955". Biographical Memoirs of Fellows of the Royal Society. 1: 37–67. doi:10.1098/rsbm.1955.0005. JSTOR 769242. S2CID 619823.
- ^ Tayler, Roger J. (1996). "Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar. 19 October 1910 – 21 August 1995". Biographical Memoirs of Fellows of the Royal Society. 42: 80–94. doi:10.1098/rsbm.1996.0006. S2CID 58736242.
- ^ Dodson, Guy (2002). "Dorothy Mary Crowfoot Hodgkin, O.M. 12 May 1910 – 29 July 1994". Biographical Memoirs of Fellows of the Royal Society. 48: 179–219. doi:10.1098/rsbm.2002.0011. PMID 13678070. S2CID 61764553.
- ^ Newman, M. H. A. (1955). "Alan Mathison Turing. 1912–1954". Biographical Memoirs of Fellows of the Royal Society. 1: 253–263. doi:10.1098/rsbm.1955.0019. JSTOR 769256.
- ^ "The Royal Society – Fellow Details". The Royal Society. 13 September 2020. Archived from the original on 7 March 2021. Retrieved 13 September 2020.
- ^ Bretscher, Mark S.; Mitchison, Graeme (2017). "Francis Harry Compton Crick OM. 8 June 1916 – 28 July 2004". Biographical Memoirs of Fellows of the Royal Society. 63: rsbm20170010. doi:10.1098/rsbm.2017.0010. ISSN 0080-4606.
- ^ Rich, Alexander; Stevens, Charles F. (2004). "Obituary: Francis Crick (1916–2004)". Nature. 430 (7002): 845–847. Bibcode:2004Natur.430..845R. doi:10.1038/430845a. PMID 15318208.
- ^ "Atta-Ur Rahman". Royal Society. Archived from the original on 20 June 2018. Retrieved 23 August 2018.
- ^ "Andre Geim". Royal Society. Archived from the original on 20 November 2020. Retrieved 23 August 2018.
- ^ "Elon Musk elected as Fellow of the Royal Society". Sky News. 9 May 2018. Archived from the original on 4 January 2021. Retrieved 22 April 2023.
- ^ "Fellows". The Royal Society. Archived from the original on 29 April 2016. Retrieved 7 March 2023.
- ^ Blackstock, Colin (2004). "Fellows keep Susan Greenfield off Royal Society list". The Guardian. London. Archived from the original on 13 September 2015.
- ^ "Eminent cancer researchers elected to Royal Society Fellowship". London: Institute of Cancer Research. 2016. Archived from the original on 25 May 2016.
- ^ "Royal Society Fellowship for Crick scientist". London: Francis Crick Institute. 29 April 2016. Archived from the original on 25 May 2016.
- ^ "Manchester scientists elected as Fellows of Royal Society". Manchester: University of Manchester. 29 April 2016. Archived from the original on 7 May 2016.
- ^ "Royal Society Fellows". London: Imperial College London. 2016. Archived from the original on 15 April 2016.
- ^ "Three University of Aberdeen researchers elected to Royal Society". Aberdeen: University of Aberdeen. 29 April 2016. Archived from the original on 25 May 2016.
- ^ "The Royal Society announces election of new Fellows 2015". Cambridge: University of Cambridge. 29 April 2016. Archived from the original on 24 April 2016.
- ^ "Seven Oxford academics elected Fellows of the Royal Society". Oxford: University of Oxford. 2016. Archived from the original on 30 April 2016.