List of fellows of the Royal Society elected in 2019

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This article lists fellows of the Royal Society who were elected in 2019. [1]

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Fellows

  1. Salim Abdool Karim
  2. Charles Bangham [2]
  3. Gurdyal Besra
  4. Manjul Bhargava
  5. Caucher Birkar
  6. Benjamin Blencowe [3]
  7. James Briscoe [4]
  8. Peter A. Butler
  9. Lucy Carpenter [5]
  10. Sarah Darby [6]
  11. George Davey Smith
  12. Martin Embley
  13. Bernard Fanaroff
  14. Jonathan Flint
  15. Véronique Gouverneur [7]
  16. Christopher Hacon
  17. Mark Handley
  18. Richard Harland
  19. Peter H. Haynes
  20. Martin Head-Gordon
  21. Matthew Hurles [8]
  22. Richard Jozsa
  23. Gagandeep Kang [9]
  24. Steve A. Kay
  25. John-Michael Kendall
  26. Roy Kerr
  27. Jonathan C. Knight
  28. Marta Kwiatkowska
  29. Mark Mayer
  30. Gareth H. McKinley
  31. David G. Nicholls
  32. Christine Orengo [10]
  33. Anne Osbourn [11]
  34. Anant Parekh
  35. Julian Peto
  36. Caetano Reis e Sousa
  37. John Rodenburg
  38. Matthew Rushworth
  39. Leonid Sazanov
  40. Gregory D. Scholes
  41. Barbara Sherwood Lollar
  42. Molly Shoichet
  43. Liz Sockett
  44. Paraskevas Sphicas
  45. Jack W. Szostak
  46. Andrew D. Taylor
  47. Robert Tibshirani
  48. Ian Tomlinson
  49. Douglass Turnbull [12]
  50. Akshay Venkatesh
  51. Kumar Wickramasinghe

Foreign members

  1. Barry Barish
  2. Hans Clevers
  3. Sandra Díaz
  4. Jack Dongarra [13]
  5. Elaine Fuchs
  6. Inez Fung
  7. David Milstein
  8. Akkihebbal Ravishankara
  9. James Rothman
  10. Brian Staskawicz

Honorary fellows

  1. Yusuf Hamied

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