List of Fellows of the Royal Society elected in 1997

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This is a list of Fellows of the Royal Society elected in 1997. [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.

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Fellows

J. Michael Brady medical image analysis researcher

(John) Michael Brady is an Emeritus professor of Oncological Imaging at the University of Oxford and has recently retired as Professorship in Information Engineering (1985-2010). He is a Fellow of Keble College, Oxford and a foreign member of the French Academy of Sciences. He was formerly BP Professor of Information Engineering at Oxford from 1985 to 2010 and a Senior Research Scientist in the MIT Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL) in Cambridge, Massachusetts from 1980-1985.

Laurence Eaves CBE, FRS is a British physicist and professor at University of Nottingham.

Paul Gordon Jarvis was a leading ecologist and Professor of Forestry and Natural Resources at the University of Edinburgh from 1975 to 2001.

Foreign Members of the Royal Society (ForMemRS)

Thomas Eisner was a German-American entomologist and ecologist, known as the "father of chemical ecology." He was a Jacob Gould Schurman Professor of Chemical Ecology at Cornell University, and Director of the Cornell Institute for Research in Chemical Ecology (CIRCE). He was a world authority on animal behavior, ecology, and evolution, and, together with his Cornell colleague Jerrold Meinwald, was one of the pioneers of chemical ecology, the discipline dealing with the chemical interactions of organisms. He was author or co-author of some 400 scientific articles and seven books.

Walter Jakob Gehring Swiss scientist

Walter Jakob Gehring was a Swiss developmental biologist who was a professor at the Biozentrum Basel of the University of Basel, Switzerland. He obtained his PhD at the University of Zurich in 1965 and after two years as a research assistant of Professor Ernst Hadorn he joined Professor Alan Garen's group at Yale University in New Haven as a postdoctoral fellow.

Martin David Kruskal American mathematician

Martin David Kruskal was an American mathematician and physicist. He made fundamental contributions in many areas of mathematics and science, ranging from plasma physics to general relativity and from nonlinear analysis to asymptotic analysis. His single most celebrated contribution was the discovery and theory of solitons.

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Stanley B. Prusiner Neurologist, biochemist

Stanley Benjamin Prusiner M.D is an American neurologist and biochemist. He is the director of the Institute for Neurodegenerative Diseases at University of California, San Francisco (UCSF). Prusiner discovered prions, a class of infectious self-reproducing pathogens primarily or solely composed of protein. He received the Albert Lasker Award for Basic Medical Research in 1994 and the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1997 for prion research developed by him and his team of experts beginning in the early 1970s.

Alpheus Hyatt American zoologist, paleontologist

Alpheus Hyatt was an American zoologist and palaeontologist.

Beth Shapiro American biologist

Beth Alison Shapiro is an American evolutionary molecular biologist. She is a Professor in the Department of Ecology & Evolutionary Biology at the University of California, Santa Cruz. Shapiro's work has centered on the analysis of ancient DNA. She was awarded a MacArthur Fellowship in 2009 and a Royal Society University Research Fellowship (URF) in 2006.

Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science Award and fellowship

Fellowship of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (FAAAS) is an honor accorded by the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) to distinguished persons who are members of the Association. Fellows are elected annually by the AAAS Council for "efforts on behalf of the advancement of science or its applications [which] are scientifically or socially distinguished".

IET Faraday Medal IET award

The Faraday Medal is the top medal awarded by the Institution of Engineering and Technology (IET). It is part of the IET Achievement Medals collection of awards. The medal is named after the famous Michael Faraday FRS, the father of electromagnetism. Faraday is widely recognized as a top scientist, engineer, chemist, and inventor. His electromagnetic induction principles have been widely used in electric motors and generators today.

Russell Foster British neuroscientist

Russell Grant Foster, CBE, FRS FMedSci is a British professor of circadian neuroscience, the Director of the Nuffield Laboratory of Ophthalmology and the Head of the Sleep and Circadian Neuroscience Institute (SCNi). He is also a Nicholas Kurti Senior Fellow at the Brasenose College at the University of Oxford. Foster and his group are credited with key contributions to the discovery of the non-rod, non-cone, photosensitive retinal ganglion cells (pRGCs) in the mammalian retina which provide input to the circadian rhythm system. He has written and co-authored over a hundred scientific publications.

Richard W. Perkins is a former scientist at the Hanford Site and the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory at Richland, Washington State. His research included study of nuclear reactors and their effect on their environment, study of the ash from the eruption of Mount St. Helens, and Operation "Star Wars." He also worked with the first moon rocks. Although too young to join, he joined the U.S navy to fight in WW2. He learned to use SONAR as part of his training in the navy. He is a member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints. Richard Perkins died December 29, 2016 at home at the age of 90.

Brady Haran Australian video journalist

Brady John Haran is an Australian-born British independent filmmaker and video journalist who is known for his educational videos and documentary films produced for BBC News and his YouTube channels, the most notable being Periodic Videos and Numberphile. Haran is also the co-host of the Hello Internet podcast along with fellow YouTuber CGP Grey. On August 22, 2017, Haran launched his second podcast, called The Unmade Podcast, and on November 11, 2018, he launched his third podcast, The Numberphile Podcast, based on his mathematics-centered channel of the same name.

The Bisset Hawkins Medal is a triennial award made by the Royal College of Physicians of London to acknowledge work done in the preceding ten years in advancing sanitary science or promoting public health. It is named after Dr Francis Bisset Hawkins (1796–1884), a distinguished London physician and is presented after the Harveian Oration.

Yadvinder Malhi Professor of Ecosystem Science at the University of Oxford

Yadvinder Singh Malhi is Professor of Ecosystem Science at the University of Oxford and a Jackson Senior Research Fellow at Oriel College, Oxford.

Holger Braunschweig

Holger Braunschweig, ML FRSC, is Head and Chair of Inorganic Chemistry at the Julius-Maximilians-University of Würzburg in Würzburg, Germany. He is best known for founding the field of transition metal-boron multiple bonding, the synthesis of the first stable compounds containing boron-boron and boron-oxygen triple bonds, the isolation of the first non-carbon/nitrogen main-group dicarbonyl, and the first fixation of dinitrogen at an element of the p-block of the periodic table. By modifying a strategy pioneered by Prof. Gregory Robinson of the University of Georgia, Braunschweig also discovered the first rational and high-yield synthesis of neutral compounds containing boron-boron double bonds (diborenes). In 2016 Braunschweig isolated the first compounds of beryllium in the oxidation state of zero.

Christopher Roland Somerville is a Canadian-American biologist known as a pioneer of Arabidopsis thaliana research. His interest in A. thaliana was partly stimulated by a review article written by George Rédei. He majored in Mathematics and completed a PhD in Genetics at the University of Alberta, and then did postdoctoral research in the laboratory of William Ogren before serving as a faculty member at U. Alberta and Michigan State University. Somerville directed the Department of Plant Science at the Carnegie Institution for Science at Stanford University and then the Energy Biosciences Institute at the University of California, Berkeley. He retired from the UC Berkeley faculty in 2017. He was also co-founder and Executive Chairman of Mendel Biotechnology, Inc. and a co-founder of Poetic Genetics, LS9, Inc, and Redleaf, Inc. Somerville was awarded the Balzan Prize together with Elliot Meyerowitz in 2006 for his work developing the small mustard plant or A. thaliana as a model.

David A. Scheinberg, M.D., Ph.D. is a physician, scientist, drug developer, and entrepreneur, who is currently Vincent Astor Chair, and Chairman of the Molecular Pharmacology Program at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center (MSK). He is a pioneer and inventor of targeted alpha particle therapies and alpha particle generators for use in patients with cancer.

Roger Jay Phillips is an American geophysicist, planetary scientist, and professor emeritus at the Washington University in St. Louis. His research interests include the geophysical structure of planets, and the use of radar and gravity to investigate the surfaces and interiors of the planets.

References

  1. ↑ "Fellows of the Royal Society", Royal Society. "Fellowship from 1660 onwards" (xlsx file on Google Docs via the Royal Society)
  2. ↑ "Sir Michael Brady FMedSci FREng FRS". London: Royal Society. Archived from the original on 2015-11-17.
  3. ↑ Shampo, Marc A.; Kyle, Robert A.; Steensma, David P. (2011). "Charles K. Kao—Father of Fiber Optics". Mayo Clinic Proceedings. 86 (8): e45. doi:10.4065/mcp.2011.0363. ISSN   0025-6196. PMC   3146387  Lock-green.svg. PMID   21919227.
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  5. ↑ Vogel, G. (1997). "NOBEL PRIZE: Prusiner Recognized for Once-Heretical Prion Theory". Science. 278 (5336): 214–214. doi:10.1126/science.278.5336.214. ISSN   0036-8075.
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