List of Fellows of the Royal Society elected in 1946

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Agnes Arber British botanist

Agnes Robertson Arber FRS was a British plant morphologist and anatomist, historian of botany and philosopher of biology. She was born in London but lived most of her life in Cambridge, including the last 51 years of her life. She was the first woman botanist to be elected as a Fellow of the Royal Society and the third woman overall. She was the first woman to receive the Gold Medal of the Linnean Society of London for her contributions to botanical science.

Wilson Baker British chemist

Wilson Baker FRS was a British organic chemist.

Sir George Lindor Brown was an English physiologist and secretary of the Royal Society, of which he was elected a Fellow in 1946.

Foreign Members

Herbert Spencer Gasser American physiologist

Herbert Spencer Gasser was an American physiologist, and recipient of the Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine in 1944 for his work with action potentials in nerve fibers while on the faculty of Washington University in St. Louis, awarded jointly with Joseph Erlanger.

Theodore von Kármán Hungarian-American mathematician, aerospace engineer and physicist

Theodore von Kármán was a Hungarian-American mathematician, aerospace engineer, and physicist who was active primarily in the fields of aeronautics and astronautics. He is responsible for many key advances in aerodynamics, notably his work on supersonic and hypersonic airflow characterization. He is regarded as the outstanding aerodynamic theoretician of the twentieth century.

Prof Erik Helge Osvald Stensiö HFRSE was a Swedish paleozoologist. He later took his new surname from his place of origin and is occasionally referred to with both names

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