List of Fellows of the Royal Society elected in 2008

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Fellows, Foreign Members and Honorary Fellows of the Royal Society elected in 2008. [1]

Royal Society National academy of science in the United Kingdom

The Royal Society, formally The Royal Society of London for Improving Natural Knowledge, is a learned society and the United Kingdom's national Academy of Sciences. 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 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. It also performs these roles for the smaller countries of the Commonwealth.

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Fellows

  1. Girish Agarwal
  2. Dario Alessi
  3. Michael Alpers
  4. Fraser Armstrong
  5. Alan Ashworth
  6. John Irving Bell
  7. Jon Blundy
  8. Leszek Borysiewicz
  9. Alexander Bradshaw
  10. Stephen M. Cohen
  11. Fergus Craik
  12. David Deutsch
  13. John Duncan
  14. Russell Grant Foster
  15. Brian Foster
  16. Derek John Fray
  17. Peter John Hudson
  18. Christopher Alexander Hunter
  19. Stephen Jackson
  20. Nicholas Kaiser
  21. Mark Kisin
  22. Christopher John Lamb
  23. Peter Simon Liss
  24. Jan Löwe
  25. Yiu-Wing Mai
  26. John C. Marshall
  27. Harvey Thomas McMahon
  28. Anne O'Garra
  29. Peter Robert Parham
  30. Ian Parker
  31. Michael Christopher Payne
  32. Laurence Pearl
  33. Matthew Rosseinsky
  34. Robert Graham Goodwin Russell
  35. Chris Toumazou
  36. George Sawatzky
  37. James Scott
  38. Evgeny Konstantintinovich Sklyanin
  39. Philip John Stephens
  40. Claudio Daniel Stern
  41. Michael Stratton
  42. Roger Summons
  43. Ulrike Tillmann
  44. Kenneth Nigel Timmis
  45. Chris Toumazou

Foreign Members

  1. J. Michael Bishop
  2. William A. Catterall
  3. Barbara Leonare Hohn
  4. Ho-kwang Mao
  5. Peter Marler
  6. David Mumford
  7. Richard Schrock
  8. Susan Solomon


Honorary Fellow

  1. David Sainsbury, Baron Sainsbury of Turville

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References

  1. "Fellowship of the Royal Society 1660-2015". London: Royal Society. Archived from the original on 2015-07-15.