List of Fellows of the Royal Society elected in 2012

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Shankar Balasubramanian British chemist

Sir Shankar Balasubramanian is an Indian-born British chemist and Herchel Smith Professor of Medicinal Chemistry in the Department of Chemistry at the University of Cambridge, Senior Group Leader at the Cancer Research UK Cambridge Institute and Fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge. He is recognised for his contributions in the field of nucleic acids. He is scientific founder of Solexa and Cambridge Epigenetix.

Alan Bundy British artificial intelligence researcher

Alan Richard Bundy is a professor at the School of Informatics at the University of Edinburgh, known for his contributions to automated reasoning, especially to proof-planning, the use of meta-level reasoning to guide proof search.

Jeremy Henley Burroughes is a British physicist and engineer, known for his contributions to the development of organic electronics through his work on the science of semiconducting polymers and molecules and their application. He is the Chief Technology Officer of Cambridge Display Technology, a company specialising in the development of technologies based on polymer light-emitting diodes.

Foreign Members

Bonnie Lynn Bassler is an American molecular biologist who revolutionized microbiology with her discovery of the use of chemical communication between bacteria known as quorum sensing, as well as the idea that disruption of chemical signaling can be used as an antimicrobial therapy. She is a Howard Hughes Medical Institute Investigator and Professor at Princeton University and in the Department of Molecular Biology with a research focus in cell-to-cell communication in bacteria. She has received numerous awards for this paradigm-changing scientific research, including the Wiley Prize in Biomedical Sciences (2009), the Richard Lounsbery Award (2011), and the L’Oreal-UNESCO award (2012), a MacArthur Fellowship (2002), and the Pearl Meister Greengard Prize (2016). She is a former president of the American Society for Microbiology, a member of the National Academy of Sciences, and a former six-year member of National Science Board, having been nominated to the latter position by President Barack Obama.

Avelino Corma Canos Spanish chemist

Avelino Corma Canós is a Spanish chemist distinguished for his world-leading work on heterogeneous catalysis.

Denis Duboule Swiss-French biologist

Denis Duboule is a Swiss-French biologist. He earned his PhD in Biology in 1984 and is currently Professor of Developmental Genetics and Genomics at the École polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL) and at the Department of Genetics and Evolution of the University of Geneva. Since 2001, he is the Director of the Swiss National Research Center "Frontiers in Genetics" and since 2017, he is also a professor at the Collège de France. He has notably worked on Hox genes, a group of genes involved in the formation of the body plan and of the limbs.

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