List of Fellows of the Royal Society

 

Contents: Top - 0–9 A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z

This is a list of people who are or were Fellows or Foreign Members of the Royal Society of London.

Fellows

A

• John Farr Abbott
• Clarke Abel
• Frederick Abel
• James Hamilton, 7th Earl of Abercorn
• Michael Abercrombie
• George Hamilton-Gordon, 4th Earl of Aberdeen
• John Abernethy (surgeon)
• William de Wiveleslie Abney
• Edward Abraham
• Samson Abramsky, computer scientist 2004
• Alexei Abrikosov, 2001
• Jerry Adams, 1992
• Alfred Adams, 1996
• Paul Adams, 1991
• Martin Aitken, 1983
• Michael Akam, 2000
• Muhammed Akhtar, 1980
• Bruce Alberts, 1993
• John Aberry, 1985
• Roger Alder, 2006
• David Aldous, 1994
• McNeill Alexander, 1987
• Claude Allegre, 2002

• Saul Adler
• Ephraim Anderson, microbiologist 1968
• Edward Neville da Costa Andrade
• Charlotte Auerbach

B

• J. D. Bernal, physicist 1937
• Tim Berners-Lee, computer scientist 2001
• Sir Michael Berry, mathematical physicist 1982
• Abram Besicovitch, mathematician 1934
• Moses Blackman
• Sir Walter Bodmer
• David Bohm
• Sir Hermann Bondi
• Gustav Victor Rudolf Born, pharmacologist and embryologist 1972
• Max Born, physicist, Nobel Prize (1954)
• Sydney Brenner, Nobel Prize (2002), 1965
• James Bruce (1730-1794), scottish traveller and travel writer, 1776
• Edith Bulbring, pharmacologist, 1958
• Sir Arnold Burgen, 1964

C

• Sir Roy Calne
• Sir Ernst Boris Chain Nobel Prize (1965), 1949
• Sir Philip Cohen, 1978
• Sydney Cohen, 1990

D

• Emanuel Mendes da Costa
• Moses da Costa, also called Anthony da Costa
• Henry Daniels, President of the Royal Statistical Society (1980)
• Samuel Devons, 1955
• Benjamin Disraeli, politician 1876
• Cyril Domb, 1977
• Jack David Dunitz
• Raymond Dwek, 1998

E

• Sir Michael Epstein, pathologist virologist 1979 (Vice-President, 1986-91)
• Arthur Erdélyi, 1975

F

• Andrew Fabian, astronomer
• Wilhelm Feldberg, 1947 biologist
• Sir Alan Fersht, protein folding 1983
• Sir Monty Finniston (vice-president 1971-2)
• Michael Fisher, 1971
• Martin Fleischmann, chemist
• Sir Otto Frankel, geneticist
• Otto Robert Frisch, physicist
• Albrecht Fröhlich
• Herbert Fröhlich, 1951

G

• Dennis Gabor, physicist Nobel Prize (1971) 1952
• David Glass, demographer (1971)
• Eugen Glueckauf, 1969
• Ian Glynn, 1970
• Thomas Gold, physicist astronomer 1964
• Sir Isaac Lyon Goldsmid
• Sydney Goldstein, expert on fluid mechanics
• Jeffrey Goldstone, 1977
• Benjamin Gompertz, actuary mathematician 1828
• Ian Grant
• Michael Green, string theorist 1989
• Hans Gruneberg, 1956 biologist
• Sir Ludwig Guttmann, neurologist

H

• Jack Halpern, chemist 1974
• Sir Henry Harris, medicine 1968
• Sir (Robert) Brian Heap, biologist 1989
• Sir Ian Heilbron, chemist 1931
• Hans Heilbronn, mathematician 1951
• Walter Heitler, physicist quantum chemistry 1948
• Sir Peter Hirsch, material science 1963
• Sir Gabriel Horn, biologist 1986
• Sir Richard Timothy (Tim) Hunt, biologist 1991
• Herbert Huppert, geophysicist 1987

I

• Alick Isaacs, virologist, interferon 1966
• David Ish-Horowicz, 2002

J

• Sir George Jessel, solicitor general 1871-73 1880
• Brian Josephson, physicist Nobel Prize (1943) 1970

K

• George Kalmus, 1988
• Sir Bernard Katz, medicine Nobel Prize (1970) 1952
• David Keilin 1928
• Andrew Keller, 1972
• Olga Kennard, crystallographer 1987
• Sir Aaron Klug, chemist Nobel Prize (1982) 1969 (President of RS 1995-2000)
• Sir Hans Kornberg, 1965
• Hans Kosterlitz, biochemist, Nobel Prize (1953)
• Sir John Krebs, biologist 1984
• Hans Kronberger (physicist), nuclear physicist
• Harold Kroto, chemist, Nobel Prize (1996) 1990
• Nicholas Kurti, physicist, Vice-President of RS 1965-67 1956

L

• Michael Levitt, biophysicist, computational biology 2001
• Frederick Lindemann, 1st Viscount Cherwell, 1920
• Henry Lipson
• Hans Lissmann
• Sir Ben Lockspeiser
• George Lusztig, 1983

M

• Prof. Dame Anne McLaren, biologist 1975 (made Foreign Secretary for the society 1991)
• Kurt Mahler, mathematician 1948
• Joel Mandelstam
• Stanley Mandelstam, theoretical physicist 1962
• Raphael Meldola, chemist 1886
• Kurt Mendelssohn, German-born British medical physicist cryogenic engineering
• Leon Mestel, astronomer 1977
• Samuel Milner, 1922
• César Milstein, medicine, Nobel Prize (1984) 1975
• Alfred Mond, chemist 1928
• Ludwig Mond, chemist 1891
• Sir Robert Mond, chemist and archaeologist
• Sir Moses Montefiore, 1836
• Louis Mordell, 1924

N

• F.R. Nunes Nabarro, British-South African physicist 1971
• Albert Neuberger, chemical pathologist 1951
• Michael Neuberger, biochemist 1993
• Bernhard Neumann, 1959
• Max Newman, 1939
• Sir Isaac Newton, Natural Philosopher, Mathematician, Astronomer, and Physicist
• Frederic Louis Norden, Danish naval captain and explorer 1741
• Sir Gustav Nossal, biologist 1982

O

• Leslie Orgel, 1962
• Egon Orowan, Hungarian-born British U.S. physicist 1947

P

• Sir Francis Palgrave
• Friedrich Paneth, chemist 1947
• Rudolf Peierls, physicist 1945
• Michael Pepper, physicist 1983
• Max Perutz, chemist, Nobel Prize (1962) 1954
• Gordon Plotkin, 1992
• John Charles Polanyi, chemist, Nobel Prize (1986) 1971
• Michael Polanyi, chemist and philosopher 1944
• Guido Pontecorvo, 1955
• Sir Karl Popper, philosopher of science 1976

Q

• Juda Quastel, biochemist 1940

R

• Richard Rado, combinatorics, graph theory 1978
• C. N. R. Rao
• Ralph Raphael, 1962
• Ivan Roitt, immunologist 1983
• Douglas Ross, physicist 2005
• Sir Joseph Rotblat, founder of Pugwash conference, Nobel Prize for Peace (1995)
• Klaus Roth
• Sir Martin Roth
• Lionel Rothschild M.P., 1911
• Dame Miriam Louisa Rothschild, entomologist, zoologist 1985
• Victor Rothschild, 3rd Baron Rothschild 1953

S

• Leo Sachs, 1997
• Peter Sarnak, 2002
• Arthur Schuster, 1879
• Dennis Sciama, cosmologist
• Anthony Segal, 1998
• Isaac de Sequeira Samuda (first Jewish Fellow of the Royal Society; elected 1727)
• David Shoenberg, physics of low temperatures
• Bernard Silverman, statistician
• Louis Siminovitch, 1991
• Sir Francis Simon, 1941
• Franz Sondheimer, organic chemist 1967
• David Spiegelhalter, statistician
• James Joseph Sylvester, mathematician 1839
• Michael Szwarc, polymer chemistry 1966

T

• David Tabor, 1963
• Samuel Tolansky, 1952, spectroscopist
• Roger Tanner, Rheologist 2004

V

• Leslie Valiant, computer scientist, parallel computation 1991
• Sir John Vane, medicine, Nobel Prize (1982) 1974

W

• Felix Weinberg, 1983
• Lawrence Weiskrantz, 1980
• Nathaniel Wolf, 1777
• Sir Isaac Wolfson, 1963
• Lord Leonard Wolfson (honorary FRS 2005)
• Lewis Wolpert, embryologist 1980
• Michael Woolfson, crystallographer, computer simulation 1984
• Henry de Worms, 1st Baron Pirbright, 1889

Y

• Alec David Young, aero-engineer 1973

Z

• Oliver Zangwill, psychologist, 1967
• John Ziman, 1967
• Lord Solly Zuckerman, anatomist, evolutionist 1943

Foreign members

A

• Anatole Abragam, French physicist, father of NMR 1983
• Alexei Alexeyevich Abrikosov, Russian physicist, Nobel Prize (2003) 2001
• Vladimir Arnold Ukrainian-U.S. mathematician 1988
• Julius Axelrod, biochemist, pharmacologist Nobel Prize (1970) 1979

B

• David Baltimore, U.S. biologist, retroviruses, Nobel Prize (1975) 1987
• Grigory Barenblatt, Russian-U.S. mathematician 2000
• Seymour Benzer, U.S. biophysicist, genetics 1976
• Paul Berg, chemist, Head of Human Genome Project, Nobel Prize (1980) 1992
• Hans Bethe, German-U.S. physicist, Nobel Prize (1967) 1957
• Konrad Bloch, German biochemist, Nobel Prize (1964) 1985
• Raoul Bott, Hungarian-born U.S. 2005
• Ronald Breslow, U.S. 2000
• Michael Stuart Brown, U.S. medicine Nobel Prize (1985) 1991

C

• Melvin Calvin, U.S. photosynthesis, Nobel Prize (1961) 1959
• Ernst Cohen, Netherlands chemist, 1926
• Ferdinand Cohn, German botanist, founder of the science of bacteriology, 1897

E

• Albert Einstein, German-U.S. physicist, Nobel Prize (1921) 1921
• Thomas Eisner, evolutionary biology, 1997
• Paul Ehrlich, immunology, haematology Nobel Prize (1908} 1910
• Gertrude Elion, medicine, Nobel Prize (1988) 1995
• Paul Erdős, Hungarian-born Israeli U.S. mathematician 1989

F

• Ugo Fano, physicist
• William Feller, statistician
• Richard Feynman, physicist
• James Franck, German-born U.S. physicist Nobel Prize (1925) 1964
• Sigmund Freud, Psychiatrist, founder of psychoanalysis 1936
• Otto Frisch, Austrian-born British physicist 1948

G

• Herbert Gasser, medicine Nobel Prize (1944) 1946
• Israel Gelfand Ukrainian-born Russian-American mathematician 1977
• Murray Gell-Mann, U.S. physicist Nobel Prize (1969) 1978
• Walter Gilbert, U.S. chemist Nobel Prize (1980) 1987
• Henry Gilman, U.S. organometallic chemist 1975
• Vitaly Ginzburg, Russian physicist, Nobel Prize (2003) 1987
• Roy Glauber, U.S. physicist, Nobel Prize (2005) 1997
• Salome Gluecksohn-Waelsch, German-born U.S. geneticist, co-founder of developmental genetics 1995
• Peter Goldreich, U.S. astrophysicist 1904
• Victor Goldschmidt, Swiss-born U.S. chemist, founder of modern geochemistry 1943
• Joseph L. Goldstein, U.S. biologist Nobel Prize (1985) 1991

H

• Jacques Hadamard, French mathematician, functional analysis 1932
• George de Hevesy, Hungarian-born Swedish chemist Nobel Prize (1943) 1939
• Roald Hoffmann, Polish-born U.S. chemist Nobel Prize (1981) electronic structures 1984
• Erwin Hahn, U.S. physicist, nuclear spin echoes NMR 2000

I

• Werner Israel, German-born Canadian physicist and cosmologist 1986

J

• Francois Jacob, French biologist Nobel Prize (1965) 1973
• Carl Gustav Jakob Jacobi, also called Karl Jacobi, German mathematician 1833

K

• Theodore von Karman, Hungarian-born U.S. aeronautical engineer 1946
• Martin Karplus, Austrian-born U.S. chemist 2000
• Ephraim Katzir, Ukrainian-born Israeli chemist, fourth President of Israel 1977
• Joseph Keller, U.S. mathematician 1986
• Isaak Markovich Khalatnikov, Russian physicist 1994
• Marc Kirschner, U.S. cell biologist 1999
• Walter Kohn, Austrian-born U.S. chemist Nobel Prize (1998) 1998
• Arthur Kornberg, U.S. chemist Nobel Prize for Medicine (1959) 1970
• Hugo Kronecker, German-born Swiss physiologist 1909
• Leopold Kronecker, German mathematician 1884
• Martin Kruskal, U.S. physicist 1997

L

• Edwin Land, U.S. inventor 1986
• Lev Landau, Azebarjan-born Russian physicist Nobel Prize (1962) 1960
• Karl Landsteiner, Austrian-born U.S. biologist Nobel Prize (1930) 1941
• Joshua Lederberg, U.S. scientist medicine Nobel Prize (1958) 1979
• Solomon Lefschetz, Russian-born U.S. mathematician topology 1961
• Tullio Levi-Civita, Italian mathematician 1930
• Rita Levi-Montalcini, Italian-born U.S. scientist Nobel Prize (1986) in medicine 1995
• Evgeny Lifshitz, Russian physicist and astronomer 1982
• Fritz Lipmann, German-born U.S. physicist Nobel Prize (1962) 1962
• Gabriel Lippmann, Luxembourg-born French physicist Nobel Prize (1908) 1896
• Otto Loewi, German-born U.S. biochemist and pharmacologist Nobel Prize (1936) 1954
• Andre Lwoff, French scientist Nobel Prize (1965) 1958

M

• Rudolph Marcus, Canadian-born U.S. chemist Nobel Prize (1992) 1987
• Lise Meitner, Austrian-born Swedish physicist nuclear fission 1955
• Matthew Meselson, U.S. molecular biologist 1984
• Ilya Ilyich Mechnikov or Elie Metchnikoff, Ukrainian-born Russian French scientist Nobel Prize (1908) in medicine 1895
• Otto Meyerhof, German-born U.S. scientist Nobel Prize (1922) 1937
• Elliot Meyerowitz, U.S. biologist (plants) 2004
• Albert Michelson, Polish-born U.S. physicist Nobel Prize (1907) 1902
• Henri Moissan, French chemist, artificial diamonds, Nobel Prize (1906) 1905
• Hermann Joseph Muller
• Walter Munk, Austrian-born U.S. geophysicist 1976

O

• George Olah, Hungarian-born U.S. chemist Nobel Prize (1994) 1997
• J. Robert Oppenheimer, U.S. Physicist

P

• Wolfgang Pauli, Austrian-born U.S. Swedish physicist Nobel Prize (1945) 1953
• Alexander Pines, chemist MRI NMR 2002
• Frank Press, U.S. geophysicist President of NAS 1985
• Stanley Prusiner, U.S. scientist Nobel Prize (1997) medicine 1997

R

• Tadeus Reichstein, Polish-born Switzerland chemist Nobel Prize (1950) in medicine 1952 (JYB 1995, p193)
• Michael Rossmann, 1986

S

• Julius von Sachs, German founder of experimental plant physiology 1888
• Edwin Salpeter, Austrian-born Australian U.S. astronomer 1993
• Martin Schwarzschild, German-born U.S. astronomer 1996
• Gilbert Stork, Belgian-born U.S. organic chemist 1999

T

• Valentine Telegdi, Hungarian-born Switzerland U.S. physicist 2003
• Howard Temin, U.S. scientist retroviruses Nobel Prize (1975) 1988

V

• Harold E. Varmus, U.S. scientist Nobel Prize (1989) in medicine 2005

W

• Otto Warburg, German chemist Nobel Prize (1931) in medicine 1934
• Andre Weil, French U.S. mathematician group theory Algebraic geometry 1966
• Steven Weinberg, U.S. physicist electroweak force Nobel Prize (1979) 1981
• Charles Weissmann, Hungarian-born Switzerland British molecular biologist 1983
• Frank Westheimer, U.S. chemist 1983
• Edward Witten, U.S. mathematician and physicist Fields Medal (1990) 1999

Y

• Charles Yanofsky, U.S. scientist medicine 1985

Z

• Richard Zare, U.S. physicist 1999
• Yakov Zeldovich, Belarusian-born Russian physicist astronomer 1979

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