List of Fellows of the Royal Society elected in 1999

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Fellows of the Royal Society elected in 1999. [1]

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Fellows

  1. Frances Mary Ashcroft, geneticist
  2. Anthony Gerard Martin Barrett, chemist
  3. Rosa Susan Penelope Beddington (1956–2001), biologist
  4. Derek Ernest Gilmor Briggs, Irish palaeontologist and taphonomist
  5. Simon Fraser Campbell, chemist
  6. Ian Stuart Edward Carmichael (1930–2011), igneous petrologist and volcanologist
  7. Lorna Casselton, biologist
  8. John Brian Clegg, molecular biologist [2]
  9. David John Hugh Cockayne (1942–2010), materials scientist [3]
  10. David Thomas Delpy, bioengineer
  11. Derek Ashworth Denton, Australian biochemist
  12. Raymond Alan Dixon, microbiologist
  13. Athene Donald, physicist
  14. Philip Christopher England, geophysicist
  15. Douglas Thomas Fearon, medical immunologist [4]
  16. Gary William Gibbons, theoretical physicist
  17. William Timothy Gowers, mathematician
  18. Ronald Ernest Grigg, chemist
  19. Alan Hall (1952–2015), cell biologist
  20. Sir Peter Leonard Knight, physicist
  21. John Paul Maier, chemist [5]
  22. Barry James Marshall, Australian physician
  23. Iain William Mattaj, molecular biologist
  24. Ernest A McCulloch (1926–2011), cell biologist [6]
  25. John Graham McWhirter, mathematician
  26. John Dixon Mollon, neuroscientist
  27. John Richard Ockendon, applied mathematician
  28. John Bernard Pethica, material scientist
  29. Dolph Schluter, Canadian evolutionary biologist
  30. John Graham Shepherd, earth scientist
  31. Joseph Ivor Silk, astrophysicist
  32. William James Stirling, particle physicist
  33. Alfred Geoffrey Sykes (1934–2007), inorganic chemist [7]
  34. Janet M Thornton, biochemist
  35. John Francis Toland, mathematical scientist [8]
  36. Anthony James Trewavas, molecular biologist
  37. Alan Walker, paleoanthropologist
  38. Graham Barry Warren, biochemist [9]
  39. Dennis Lawrence Weaire, Irish physicist [10]
  40. Sir Peter Michael Williams, physicist
  41. Robert Williamson, Australian molecular geneticist [11]
  42. Sir Magdi Habib Yacoub, cardiothoracic surgeon

Foreign Members

  1. Robert Huber, German biochemist [12]
  2. Marc W Kirschner, American cell biologist [13]
  3. George Ledyard Stebbins (1906–2000), American geneticist [14]
  4. Gilbert Stork, American organic chemist [15]
  5. Edward Witten, American theoretical physicist [16]
  6. Richard Neil Zare, American physical chemist [17]

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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) [ dead link ]
  2. ↑ "John Clegg". Royal Society. Retrieved 14 June 2017.
  3. ↑ "Fellow details". Royal Society. Retrieved 14 June 2017.
  4. ↑ "Douglas Fearon". Royal Society. Retrieved 14 June 2017.
  5. ↑ "Graham Warren". Royal Society. Retrieved 14 June 2017.
  6. ↑ "Fellow details". Royal Society. Retrieved 14 June 2017.
  7. ↑ "Fellow details". Royal Society. Retrieved 14 June 2017.
  8. ↑ "John Toland". Royal Society. Retrieved 14 June 2017.
  9. ↑ "Graham Warren". Royal Society. Retrieved 14 June 2017.
  10. ↑ "Dennis Weaire". Royal Society. Retrieved 14 June 2017.
  11. ↑ "Robert Williamson". Royal Society. Retrieved 14 June 2017.
  12. ↑ "Robert Huber". Royal Society. Retrieved 14 June 2017.
  13. ↑ "Marc Kirschner". Royal Society. Retrieved 14 June 2017.
  14. ↑ "Fellow details". Royal Society. Retrieved 14 June 2017.
  15. ↑ "Gilbert Stork". Royal Society. Retrieved 14 June 2017.
  16. ↑ "Edward Witten". Royal Society. Retrieved 14 June 2017.
  17. ↑ "Richard Zare". Royal Society. Retrieved 14 June 2017.
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