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Royal Society member (in English Fellow of the Royal Society ) It is an honorary title granted to distinguish scientists, as well as a category of affiliation of the Royal Society of London for the advancement of natural science. People who receive this title can indicate it by attaching the acronym FRS After your name.

Up to 44 members are elected by vote of existing members. Candidates must be national or residents of the United Kingdom, the Republic of Ireland or from some country of the British Commonwealth. Outstanding scientists from other places can belong as foreign members. The statutes of the Royal Society declare that the candidates for the election must have made “a substantial contribution to the improvement of knowledge, including mathematics, engineering and medicine.”

Fellowship of the Society , of the oldest scientific academy known in continuous existence, it is a significant honor. It has been granted to many eminent scientists throughout history, including Isaac Newton (1672), [ first ] ​ Charles Darwin (1839), [ first ] ​ Michael Faraday (1824), [ first ] ​ Ernest Rutherford (1903), [ 2 ] Srinivasa Ramanujan (1918), [ 3 ] ​ Albert Einstein (1921), [ 4 ] ​ Paul Dirac (1930), Winston Churchill (1941), Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar (1944), [ 5 ] ​ Dorothy Hodgkin (1947), [ 6 ] ​ Alan Turing (1951), [ 7 ] Lise Meitner (1955) Y Francis Crick (1959). [ 8 ] More recently, scholarships have been granted to Stephen Hawking (1974), David Attenborough (1983), 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), Elon Musk (2018), and around 8,000 more in total, including more than 280 Nobel Awards since 1900. In October 2018, there are approximately 1689 fellows, foreign members and living fees, of which more than 60 are Nobel Prizes. [ 9 ] ​

The Royal Society scholarship has been described by The Guardian as “the equivalent of an Oscar to the trajectory” [ ten ] And several institutions celebrate their announcement every year.

Up to 60 new Fellows (FRS), HEAD (HONFRS) and Foreign Members (FORMEMRS) are elected annually at the end of April or early May, a group of around 700 proposed candidates every year. [ 11 ] New fellows can only be nominated by existing fellows for one of the scholarships described below:

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Every year, up to 52 new fellows from the United Kingdom are chosen, the rest of the Commonwealth of Nations and Ireland, which represent about 90% of society. [ twelfth ] Each candidate is considered for their merits and can be proposed from any sector of the scientific community. The fellows are chosen for life on the basis of excellence in science and have the right to use the Postnominal FRS letters.

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Every year, the fellows choose up to ten new foreign members. Like fellows, foreign members are chosen for life through a peer review on the basis of excellence in science. As of 2016, there are around 165 foreign members, who have the right to use post-nominal forms.

Honorary Fellow (Honorary Member) [ To edit ]

The Honorary Scholarship is an honorary academic title that is granted to candidates who have provided a distinguished service to the cause of science, but do not have the type of scientific achievements that are required of foreign fellows or members. The honorary fellows include Bill Bryson (2013), Melvyn Bragg (2010), Robin Saxby (2015), David Sainsbury, Baron Sainsbury of Turville (2008) and Onora O’Neill (2007). Feeling fellows have the right to use Honfrs nominal letters. Others, including John Maddox (2000), Patrick Moore (2001) and Lisa Jardine (2015) were chosen as honorary fellows.

Former Satatute 12 Fellowship (former Statute 12 scholarships) [ To edit ]

The fellows chosen under statute 12 include David Attenborough (1983) and John Palmer, fourth count of Selborne (1991).

Royal Fellow (Real Companion) [ To edit ]

The Royal Society Council may recommend members of the British Royal Family for their election as a real member of the Royal Society. As of 2016 there are five real fellows:

  • Carlos, Prince of Wales chosen in 1978
  • Anne, Royal Princess Chosen in 1987
  • Prince Eduardo, Duke of Kent, chosen in 1990
  • Prince William, Duke of Cambridge, chosen in 2009
  • Prince Andrew, Duke of York, chosen in 2013
  • His Majesty the Queen, Isabel II is not a real member, but provides her sponsorship to society as all the British reigning monarchs have done since Carlos II of England. Prince Felipe, Duke of Edinburgh (1951) was chosen according to Statute 12, not as a real member.

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  1. ↑ a b c «List of fellows of the Royal Society» . Retrieved on June 7, 2021 .
  2. ↑ EVE, Arthur Stewart; Chadwick, James (1 of ENERO 1936). «Lord Rutherford, 1871 – 1937» . Obituary Notices of Fellows of the Royal Society 2 (6): 394-423. doi: 10.1098/rsbm.1938.0025 . Retrieved on June 7, 2021 .
  3. ↑ Neville, E. H. (1921-01). «The Late Srinivasa Ramanujan» . Nature (in English) 106 (2673): 661-662. ISSN  1476-4687 . doi: 10.1038/106661b0 . Retrieved on June 7, 2021 .
  4. ↑ Whittaker, Edmund Taylor (November 1, 1955). «Albert Einstein, 1879-1955» . Biographical Memoirs of Fellows of the Royal Society first : 37-67. doi: 10.1098/rsbm.1955.0005 . Retrieved on June 7, 2021 .
  5. ↑ Tayler, Roger John (November 1, 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 . Retrieved on June 7, 2021 .
  6. ↑ Dodson, Guy (December 1, 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 . Retrieved on June 7, 2021 .
  7. ↑ Newman, Maxwell Herman Alexander (November 1, 1955). «Alan Mathison Turing, 1912-1954» . Biographical Memoirs of Fellows of the Royal Society first : 253-263. doi: 10.1098/rsbm.1955.0019 . Retrieved on June 7, 2021 .
  8. ↑ Bretscher, Mark S.; Mitchison, Graeme (31 decker de 2017). «Francis Harry Compton Crick OM. 8 June 1916 — 28 July 2004» . Biographical Memoirs of Fellows of the Royal Society 63 : 159-196. doi: 10.1098/rsbm.2017.0010 . Retrieved on June 7, 2021 .
  9. ↑ «Fellows Directory | Royal Society» . royalsociety.org (In British English) . Retrieved on June 7, 2021 .
  10. ↑ «Fellows keep Greenfield off Royal Society list | UK news | The Guardian» . web.archive.org . September 13, 2015 . Retrieved on June 7, 2021 .
  11. ↑ Keeler, C. Richard (October 1, 2011). «Three Hundred Fifty Years of the Royal Society» . Archives of Ophthalmology (in English) 129 (10): 1361. ISSN  0003-9950 . doi: 10.1001/archophthalmol.2011.222 . Retrieved on June 7, 2021 .
  12. ↑ «Royal Society Statutes» . Retrieved on June 7, 2021 .

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