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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".
More than 8,000 people have been elected a fellow of the Royal Society of London, England, since the inception of the Royal Society in 1660. The Royal Society publishes a database of current fellows [1] and a database of past fellows. [2]
Sir Isaac Newton FRS, President of Royal Society, 1703–1727. Newton was one of the earliest Fellows of the Royal Society, elected in 1672. Lord Hardwicke, leader of the "Hardwicke Circle" that dominated society politics during the 1750s and '60s
Fellowship of the Royal Society is open to scientists, engineers and technologists from the United Kingdom and Commonwealth of Nations, on the basis of having made "a substantial contribution to the improvement of natural knowledge, including mathematics, engineering science and medical science". [4]
1 Fellows of the Royal Society (FRS) 2 Honorary fellows. 3 Foreign members of the Royal Society (ForMemRS) 4 References. Toggle the table of contents.
Fellows of the Royal Society (FRS) Dame Anne Glover FRS, biologist Professor Brian Cox FRS, physicist Professor Paul Workman FRS, pharmacologist. Chris Abell;
Professor Alan Madoc Roberts FRS, electrophysiologist, neuroanatomist and student of animal behaviour Professor Annette Dolphin FRS, Professor of Pharmacology at UCL Gero Miesenböck FRS, Waynflete Professor of Physiology at Oxford
When Prince Andrew was elected in 2013 [8] his suitability was questioned following criticism of his past business activities. Some members asked whether it was time for an institution based on science to end the practice of honouring people on the basis of a heredity principle; Professor David Colquhoun FRS said "The objects of the Royal Society are nothing to do with the monarchy, and the ...