List of Fellows of the Royal Society elected in 1983

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This is a list of Fellows and Foreign Members of the Royal Society elected in 1983. [1]

Royal Society English learned society for science

The President, Council and Fellows of the Royal Society of London for Improving Natural Knowledge, commonly known as the Royal Society, is a learned society. Founded on 28 November 1660, it was granted a royal charter by King Charles II as "The Royal Society". It is the oldest national scientific institution in the world. The society is the United Kingdom's and Commonwealth of Nations' Academy of Sciences and fulfils a number of roles: promoting science and its benefits, recognising excellence in science, supporting outstanding science, providing scientific advice for policy, fostering international and global co-operation, education and public engagement.

Contents

Fellows

  1. Ian Graham Gass [2]
  2. William Wilton Douglas [3]
  3. Charles David Marsden [4]
  4. Dennis W. Sciama [5]
  5. Ian Sneddon [6]
  6. Sivaramakrishna Chandrasekhar [7]
  7. Ted Paige [8]
  8. Anthony Trafford James [9]
  9. Christopher Polge [10]
  10. Sir Philip Randle [11]
  11. John Lawson (d. 2008)
  12. Alan Sargeson [12]
  13. Felix Weinberg (d. 2012)
  14. Margaret Thatcher (under Statute 12)
  15. George William Gray (1926–2013)
  16. Martin Aitken
  17. Sir David Attenborough
  18. Sir Patrick Bateson
  19. Edward Cocking
  20. Pierre Deslongchamps
  21. Reginald John Ellis
  22. Malcolm Ferguson-Smith
  23. Sir Alan Fersht [13]
  24. William Alexander Gambling
  25. Ian Read Gibbons
  26. Ray Guillery
  27. Richard Henderson
  28. Peter Higgs [14]
  29. Christopher Hooley
  30. Peter Lawrence [15]
  31. George Lusztig
  32. Donald Metcalf [16]
  33. Sir Keith O'Nions
  34. Sir Michael Pepper
  35. Michael J. D. Powell [17]
  36. Ivan Roitt
  37. Sir Edwin Southern [18]
  38. Brian Spalding
  39. Nigel Unwin
  40. Ian Macmillan Ward
  41. John Westcott
  42. Dudley Howard Williams [19]

Foreign members

  1. George Evelyn Hutchinson [20]
  2. Jean Leray [21]
  3. Henry Stommel [22]
  4. Charles Weissmann
  5. Frank Westheimer [23]

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References

  1. ↑ "Fellows of the Royal Society", Royal Society. "Fellowship from 1660 onwards" (xlsx file on Google Docs via the Royal Society)
  2. ↑ Cox, K. G. (1995). "Ian Graham Gass. 20 March 1926-8 October 1992". Biographical Memoirs of Fellows of the Royal Society . 41: 170–182. doi:10.1098/rsbm.1995.0011.
  3. ↑ Ritchie, J. M. (2000). "William Wilton Douglas. 15 August 1922 - 2 July 1998: Elected F.R.S. 1983". Biographical Memoirs of Fellows of the Royal Society. 46: 145. doi:10.1098/rsbm.1999.0077.
  4. ↑ Quinn, N.; Rothwell, J.; Jenner, P. (2012). "Charles David Marsden. 15 April 1938 -- 29 September 1998". Biographical Memoirs of Fellows of the Royal Society. 58: 203. doi:10.1098/rsbm.2012.0026.
  5. ↑ Ellis, George F. R.; Penrose, Roger (2010). "Dennis William Sciama. 18 November 1926 -- 19 December 1999". Biographical Memoirs of Fellows of the Royal Society . 56: 401. doi:10.1098/rsbm.2009.0023.
  6. ↑ Chadwick, P. (2002). "Ian Naismith Sneddon, O.B.E. 8 December 1919 - 4 November 2000". Biographical Memoirs of Fellows of the Royal Society. 48: 417. doi:10.1098/rsbm.2002.0025.
  7. ↑ Gray, G. W.; Luckhurst, G. R.; Raynes, E. P. (2007). "Sivaramakrishna Chandrasekhar. 6 August 1930 -- 8 March 2004: Elected FRS 1983". Biographical Memoirs of Fellows of the Royal Society . 53: 127. doi:10.1098/rsbm.2007.0015.
  8. ↑ Ash, E. A.; Raynes, E. P. (2009). "Edward George Sydney Paige. 18 July 1930 -- 20 February 2004". Biographical Memoirs of Fellows of the Royal Society. 55: 185. doi:10.1098/rsbm.2009.0009.
  9. ↑ Gurr, M. (2012). "Anthony Trafford James. 6 March 1922 -- 7 December 2006". Biographical Memoirs of Fellows of the Royal Society. 58: 129–150. doi:10.1098/rsbm.2011.0018.
  10. ↑ Hunter, R. H. F. (2008). "Ernest John Christopher Polge". Biographical Memoirs of Fellows of the Royal Society . 54: 275. doi:10.1098/rsbm.2008.0006.
  11. ↑ Denton, R. M.; Ashcroft, S. J. H. (2007). "A tribute to the life and work of Philip Randle". Diabetologia. 50 (7): 1359. doi:10.1007/s00125-007-0677-1. PMID   17473914.
  12. ↑ Bosnich, B. (2011). "Alan McLeod Sargeson". Biographical Memoirs of Fellows of the Royal Society . 58: 265. doi:10.1098/rsbm.2011.0017.
  13. ↑ FERSHT, Sir Alan (Roy). ukwhoswho.com. Who's Who. 2015 (online Oxford University Press ed.). A & C Black, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing plc. Closed Access logo alternative.svg (subscription required)
  14. ↑ Ellis, J (2012). "Credit due to Peter Higgs". Science. 338 (6108): 740–1. doi:10.1126/science.338.6108.740-b. PMID   23139312.
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  17. ↑ POWELL, Prof. Michael James David. ukwhoswho.com. Who's Who. 2015 (online Oxford University Press ed.). A & C Black, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing plc. Closed Access logo alternative.svg (subscription required)
  18. ↑ Gitschier, Jane (2013). "Problem Solved: An Interview with Sir Edwin Southern". PLOS Genetics . 9 (3): e1003344. doi:10.1371/journal.pgen.1003344. PMC   3597496  Lock-green.svg. PMID   23516371. Open Access logo PLoS transparent.svg
  19. ↑ Watts, G. (2011). "Dudley Howard Williams". The Lancet. 377 (9760): 120. doi:10.1016/S0140-6736(11)60010-X.
  20. ↑ Lovejoy, T. E. (2011). "George Evelyn Hutchinson". Biographical Memoirs of Fellows of the Royal Society . 57: 167–177. doi:10.1098/rsbm.2010.0016.
  21. ↑ Andler, M. (2006). "Jean Leray. 7 November 1906 -- 10 November 1998: Elected ForMemRS 1983". Biographical Memoirs of Fellows of the Royal Society . 52: 137. doi:10.1098/rsbm.2006.0011.
  22. ↑ Wunsch, C. (1997). "Henry Melson Stommel". Biographical Memoirs of Fellows of the Royal Society . 43: 493. doi:10.1098/rsbm.1997.0027.
  23. ↑ Gerlt, John A. (2007). "Obituary: Frank H. Westheimer (1912–2007)". Nature. 447 (7144): 543. Bibcode:2007Natur.447..543G. doi:10.1038/447543a. PMID   17538611.
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