FRS
Organization
Description
Fellowship of the Royal Society (FRS, ForMemRS and HonFRS) is an award granted to individuals that the Royal Society judges to have made a "substantial contribution to the improvement of natural knowledge, including mathematics, engineering science and medical science".
Fellowship of the Society, the oldest scientific academy in continuous existence, is a significant honour which has been awarded to many eminent scientists from history including Isaac Newton (1672), Charles Darwin (1839), Michael Faraday (1824), Ernest Rutherford (1903), Srinivasa Ramanujan (1919), Albert Einstein (1921), Winston Churchill (1941), Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar (1944), Dorothy Hodgkin (1947), Alan Turing (1951) and Francis Crick (1959). More recently, fellowship has been awarded to Stephen Hawking (1974), Tim Hunt (1991), Elizabeth Blackburn (1992), Tim Berners-Lee (2001), Venkatraman Ramakrishnan (2003), Atta-ur Rahman (2006), Andre Geim (2007), James Dyson (2015), Ajay Kumar Sood (2015), Subhash Khot (2017) and around 8000 others in total, including over 280 Nobel Laureates since 1900. As of 2016, there are around 1600 living Fellows, Foreign and Honorary Members.
Fellowship of the Royal Society has been described by The Guardian newspaper as “the equivalent of a lifetime achievement Oscar” with several institutions celebrating their announcement each year.
Publications
| Title | Publication Date | Description | Link |
|---|---|---|---|
| Fellow of the Royal Society (webpage from Wikipedia) | A fairly detailed page on this title | Link |
People
| Name | Date of Birth | Date of Death | Short Biography |
|---|---|---|---|
| Captain James Cook | 1728 | 1779 | a British explorer, navigator, cartographer, and captain in the Royal Navy. |
| Roderick Murchison | 1792 | 1871 | a British geologist who first described and investigated the Silurian system |
| Charles Darwin | 1809 | 1882 | an English naturalist, geologist and biologist, best known for his contributions to the science of evolution. |
| Samuel Baker | 1821 | 1893 | an English explorer, officer, naturalist, big game hunter, engineer, writer and abolitionist |
| James Augustus Grant | 1827 | 1892 | a Scottish explorer of eastern equatorial Africa |