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1 | Q529 | Louis Pasteur | French chemist and microbiologist (1822-1895) | 1874 | en:For his researches on fermentation and on pelerine. | |
2 | Q680 | Alessandro Volta | Italian physicist, chemist, and pioneer of electricity and power (1745-1827) | 1794 | en:For his several Communications explanatory of certain Experiments published by Professor Galvani. | |
3 | Q937 | Albert Einstein | German-born theoretical physicist (1879–1955) | 1925 | en:For his theory of relativity and his contributions to the quantum theory. | |
4 | Q1035 | Charles Darwin | English naturalist and biologist (1809–1882) | 1864 | en:For his important researches in geology, zoology, and botanical physiology. | |
5 | Q1585 | Georg Simon Ohm | German physicist and mathematician | 1841 | en:For his researches into the laws of electric currents contained in various memoirs published in Schweiggers Journal, Poggendorffs Annalen and in a separate work entitled Diegalvanische Kette mathematisch bearbeitet. | |
6 | Q4517 | Bernard Katz | German-British biophysicist (1911–2003) | 1967 | en:In recognition of his distinguished contributions to knowledge of the fundamental processes involved in transmission across the neuromuscular junction. | |
7 | Q5333 | Charles Lyell | British geologist (1797–1875) | 1858 | en:For his various researches and writings by which he has contributed to the advance of geology. | |
8 | Q6694 | Alexander von Humboldt | Prussian geographer, naturalist and explorer (1769–1859) | 1852 | en:For his eminent services in terrestrial physics, during a series of years. | |
9 | Q6722 | Carl Friedrich Gauss | German mathematician and physicist (1777–1855) | 1838 | en:For his inventions and mathematical researches in magnetism. | |
10 | Q7085 | Niels Bohr | Danish physicist (1885–1962) | 1938 | en:In recognition of his distinguished work in the development of the quantum theory of atomic structure. | |
11 | Q7324 | James Cook | British explorer, cartographer and naval officer (1728–1779) | 1776 | en:For his Paper, giving an account of the method he had taken to preserve the health of the crew of H.M. Ship the Resolution, during her late voyage round the world. Whose communication to the Society was of such importance to the public. | |
12 | Q7487 | Dorothy Hodgkin | British chemist | 1976 | en:In recognition of her outstanding work on the structures of complex molecules, particularly Penicillin, vitamin B12 and insulin. | |
13 | Q8750 | Michael Faraday | Scientist | 1832 1838 |
en:For his discovery of Magneto-Electricity as detailed in his Experimental Researches in Electricity, published in the Philosophical Transactions for the present year. en:For his researches in specific electrical induction. |
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14 | Q8962 | James Prescott Joule | English physicist and brewer (1818-1889) | 1870 | en:For his experimental researches on the dynamical theory of heat. | |
15 | Q9021 | Max Planck | German theoretical physicist (1858-1947) | 1929 | en:For his contributions to theoretical physics and especially as the originator of the quantum theory. | |
16 | Q9106 | Dmitri Mendeleev | Russian chemist | 1905 | en:For his contributions to chemical and physical science. | |
17 | Q9123 | Ernest Rutherford | New Zealand physicist (1871–1937) | 1922 | en:For his researches in radio activity & atomic structure | |
18 | Q14277 | William Herschel | German-born British astronomer and composer (1738–1822) | 1781 | en:For the Communication of his Discovery of a new and singular Star; a discovery which does him particular honour, as, in all probability, this start has been for many years, perhaps ages, within the bounds of astronomic vision, and yet till now, eluded the | |
19 | Q14278 | John Frederick William Herschel | English polymath, mathematician, astronomer, chemist, inventor and photographer (*1792 – †1871) | 1821 1847 |
en:For his Papers printed in the Philosophical Transactions. en:For his work entitled Results of Astronomical Observations made during the years 1834, 1835, 1836, 1837 and 1838, at the Cape of Good Hope; being a completion of a telescopic survey of the whole surface of the visible heavens, commenced in 1825 |
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20 | Q15462 | William Hamilton | Scottish diplomat, antiquarian, archaeologist and vulcanologist (1730-1803) | 1770 | en:For his Paper, entitled, An Account of a Journey to Mount Etna. | |
21 | Q16571 | Justus von Liebig | German chemist (1803-1873) | 1840 | en:For his discoveries in organic chemistry, and particularly for his development of the composition and theory of organic radicals. | |
22 | Q17714 | Stephen Hawking | British theoretical physicist, cosmologist and author (1942–2018) | 2006 | en:For his outstanding contribution to theoretical physics and theoretical cosmology. | |
23 | Q18425 | Marcellin Berthelot | French chemist and politician (1827-1907) | 1900 | en:For his brilliant services to chemical science. | |
24 | Q20015 | John Couch Adams | English mathematician and astronomer (1819–1892) | 1848 | en:For his investigations relative to the disturbances of Uranus, and for his application of the inverse problem of perturbations thereto. | |
25 | Q20018 | George Biddell Airy | English mathematician and astronomer (*1801 – †1892) | 1831 | en:For his Papers, On the principle of the construction of the Achromatic Eye-pieces of Telescopes, - On the Spherical Aberration of the Eye-pieces of Telescopes, and for other Papers on Optical Subjects in the Transactions of the Cambridge Philosophical Soc | |
26 | Q25320 | Paul Langevin | French physicist, philosopher of science and pedagogue (1872-1946) | 1940 | en:For his pioneer work on the electron theory of magnetism, his fundamental contributions to discharge of electricity in gases, and his important work in many branches of theoretical physics. | |
27 | Q28189 | Abdus Salam | theoretical physicist, and Nobel Prize in Physics recipient | 1990 | en:In recognition of his work on the symmetries of the laws of nature, and especially the unification of the electromagnetic and weak forces. | |
28 | Q30693 | Rudolf Clausius | German mathematical physicist and professor (1822-1888) | 1879 | en:For his well-known researches upon heat. | |
29 | Q34969 | Benjamin Franklin | American author, printer, political theorist, politician, postmaster, scientist, inventor, civic activist, statesman, diplomat, Founding Father (1706–1790) | 1753 | en:On account of his curious Experiments and Observations on Electricity. | |
30 | Q41688 | Hendrik Lorentz | Dutch physicist (1853–1928) | 1918 | en:On the ground of his distinguished researches in mathematical physics. | |
31 | Q42985 | Ivan Pavlov | Russian physiologist (1849-1936) | 1915 | en:On the ground of his investigations in the physiology of digestion and of the higher centres of the nervous system. | |
32 | Q44412 | Hans Christian Ørsted | Danish physicist and chemist (1777-1851) | 1836 | en:For his Electro-magnetic Discoveries. | |
33 | Q44645 | Benjamin Thompson | American-born British physicist and inventor | 1792 | en:For his various Papers on the Properties and Communication of Heat. | |
34 | Q47285 | J. J. Thomson | British physicist (1856-1940) | 1914 | en:On the ground of his discoveries in physical science | |
35 | Q47480 | Paul Dirac | British theoretical physicist (1902–1984) | 1952 | en:In recognition of his remarkable contributions to relativistic dynamics of a particle in quantum mechanics. | |
36 | Q48986 | Cyril Norman Hinshelwood | English physical chemist (1897-1967) | 1962 | en:In recognition of his distinguished researches in the field of chemical kinetics, including the study of biological reaction mechanisms, and of his outstanding contributions to natural philosophy. | |
37 | Q49351 | Robert Robinson | English chemist (1886-1975) | 1942 | en:For his research work of outstanding originality and brilliance which has influenced the whole field of organic chemistry. | |
38 | Q57103 | Karl Weierstraß | German mathematician (1815-1897) | 1895 | en:For his investigations in pure mathematics. | |
39 | Q57171 | Robert Mayer | German physicist (1814-1878) | 1871 | en:For his researches on the mechanics of heat; including essays on: - 1. The force of inorganic nature. 2. Organic motion in connection with nutrition. 3. Fever. 4. Celestial dynamics. 5. The mechanical equivalent of heat. | |
40 | Q57190 | Karl Ernst von Baer | Baltic-German scientist (1792-1876) | 1867 | en:For his discoveries in embryology and comparative anatomy, and for his contributions to the philosophy of zoology. | |
41 | Q57191 | Hans Krebs | German-British biochemist (1900-1981) | 1961 | en:In recognition of his distinguished contributions to biochemistry, in particular his work on the ornithine, tricarboxylic acid and glyoxylate cycles. | |
42 | Q57561 | Julius Plücker | German mathematician and physicist (1801-1868) | 1866 | en:For his researches in analytical geometry, magnetism, & spectral analysis. | |
43 | Q57992 | Johannes Peter Müller | German physiologist, comparative anatomist, ichthyologist, and herpetologist (1801-1858) | 1854 | ||
44 | Q58575 | Friedrich Wöhler | German chemist (1800-1882) | 1872 | en:For his numerous contributions to the science of chemistry, and more especially for his researches on the products of the decomposition of cyanogens by ammonia; on the derivatives of uric acid; on the benzoyl series; on boron, silicon, & their compounds; | |
45 | Q60024 | Hermann von Helmholtz | German physicist and physiologist (1821-1894) | 1873 | en:For his researches in physics and physiology. | |
46 | Q61300 | Carl Gegenbaur | German scientist (1826–1903) | 1896 | en:For his life-long researches in comparative anatomy in all branches of the animal kingdom. etc., etc. | |
47 | Q61697 | Heinrich Wilhelm Dove | German scientist | 1853 | en:For his work on the distribution of heat over the surface of the Earth. | |
48 | Q61735 | Rudolf Peierls | German-born British physicist | 1986 | en:In recognition of his fundamental contributions to a very wide range of theoretical physics, and signal advances in proposing the probable existence of nuclear chain reactions in fissile materials. | |
49 | Q61749 | Peter Andreas Hansen | German astronomer (1795-1874) | 1850 | en:For his researches in physical astronomy. | |
50 | Q61774 | Franz Ernst Neumann | German physicist and mineralogist (1798-1895) | 1887 | en:For his researches in theoretical optics and electro-dynamics. | |
51 | Q61975 | Carl Ludwig | German physiologist | 1884 | en:For his investigations in physiology, and the great services which he has rendered to physiological science. | |
52 | Q71031 | Robert Bunsensen | German chemist (1811-1899) | 1860 | en:For his researches on cacodyls, gaseous analysis, the volcanic phenomena of Iceland; and other researches. | |
53 | Q72194 | Henry Hallett Dale | English pharmacologist, Nobel laureate | 1937 | en:In recognition of his important contributions to physiology and pharmacology, particularly in relation to the nervous and neuro-muscular systems. | |
54 | Q76360 | August Wilhelm von Hofmann | German chemist (1818-1892) | 1875 | en:For his numerous contributions to the science of chemistry, and especially for his researches on the derivatives of ammonia. | |
55 | Q76432 | Rudolf Virchow ,hola nose que esta pasando asi que dire que ¿Wikipedia deja editar esto? | German doctor, anthropologist, public health activist, pathologist, prehistorian, biologist and politician (1821-1902) | 1892 | en:For his investigations in pathology, pathological anatomy, and prehistoric archaeology. | |
56 | Q76641 | Felix Klein | German mathematician, author of the Erlangen Program (1849-1925) | 1912 | en:On the ground of his researches in mathematics | |
57 | Q76707 | Wilhelm Eduard Weber | German physicist | 1859 | en:For the investigations contained in his Maasbestimmungen and other researches in electricity, magnetism, acoustics, &c. | |
58 | Q76745 | Theodor Schwann | German physiologist | 1845 | en:For his physiological researches on the development of animal & vegetable textures, published in his work entitled Mikroskopische Untersuchungen uber die Uebereinstimmung in der Struktur u. dem Wachsthun der Thiese u. Bflanzen. | |
59 | Q76784 | August Kekulé | German organic chemist | 1885 | en:For his researches in organic chemistry. | |
60 | Q76951 | George de Hevesy | Hungarian chemist (1885–1966) | 1949 | en:For his distinguished work on the chemistry of radioactive elements and especially for his development of the radioactive tracer techniques in the investigation of biological processes. | |
61 | Q78480 | Max Perutz | Austrian-born British molecular biologist (1914-2002) | 1979 | en:In recognition of his distinguished contributions to molecular biology through his own studies of the structure and biological activity of haemoglobin and his leadership in the development of the subject. | |
62 | Q80884 | James Chadwick | English physicist (1891-1974), who discovered the neutron in 1932 | 1950 | en:For his outstanding work in nuclear physics and in the development of atomic energy, especially for his discovery of the neutron. | |
63 | Q81218 | John Gurdon | British developmental biologist | 2003 | en:For his unique range of groundbreaking discoveries in the fields of cell and developmental biology. He pioneered the concept that specialised cells are genetically equivalent and that they differ only in the genes they express not the genes they contain, | |
64 | Q83297 | John Strutt, 3rd Baron Rayleigh | English physicist (1842–1919) | 1899 | en:In recognition of his contributions to physical science. | |
65 | Q83333 | James D. Watson | American molecular biologist, geneticist, and zoologist (born 1928) | 1993 | en:In recognition of his tireless pursuit of DNA, from the elucidation of its structure to the social and medical implications of the sequencing of the human genome. | |
66 | Q102419 | Derek Barton | English organic chemist | 1980 | en:In recognition of his distinguished contributions to a wide range of problems in structural and synthetic organic chemistry and , in particular, his introduction of conformational analysis into stereochemistry. | |
67 | Q104104 | Andre Geim | Russian-born Dutch-British physicist | 2013 | en:For his numerous scientific contributions and, in particular, for initiating research on two‐dimensional atomic crystals and their artificial heterostructures. | |
68 | Q104154 | Urbain Le Verrier | French astronomer (1811-1877) | 1846 | en:For his investigations relative to the disturbances of Uranus by which he proved the existence and predicted the place of the new Planet; the Council considering such prediction confirmed as it was by the immediate discovery of the Planet to be one of the | |
69 | Q104607 | Andrew Huxley | English physiologist and biophysicist | 1973 | en:In recognition of his outstanding studies on the mechanisms of the nerve impulse and of activation of muscular contraction. | |
70 | Q106762 | George Porter | British chemist (1920–2002) | 1992 | en:In recognition of his contributions to fundamental understanding of fast photochemical and photophysical processes and their role in chemistry and biology. | |
71 | Q115490 | Tadeusz Reichstein | Polish-Swiss chemist (1897-1996) | 1968 | en:In recognition of his distinguished work on the chemistry of vitamin C and his authoritative studies of the cortico-steroids. | |
72 | Q115810 | Abraham Trembley | Genevan naturalist (1710-1784) | 1743 | en:For his Experiments on the Polypus. | |
73 | Q122701 | William Thomson, 1st Baron Kelvin | British physicist and engineer (1824–1907) | 1883 | en:For (1) his discovery of the law of the universal dissipation of energy; (2) his researches and eminent services in physics, both experimental & mathematical, especially in the theory of electricity and thermodynamics. | |
74 | Q122972 | Louis Agassiz | Swiss-American naturalist (1807–1873) | 1861 | en:For his eminent researches in palaeontology and other branches of science, and particularly for his great works the Poissons Fossiles, and his Poissons du Vieux Gres Rouge dEcosse. | |
75 | Q123280 | Francis Crick | British molecular biologist, biophysicist, neuroscientist; co-discoverer of the structure of DNA | 1975 | en:In recognition of his elucidation of the structure of DNA and his continuing contribution to molecular biology. | |
76 | Q123485 | Jacques Charles François Sturm | French mathematician (1803–1855) | 1840 | en:For his "Memoire sur la Resolution des Equations Numeriques," published in the Memoires des Savans Etrangers for 1835. | |
77 | Q123528 | Albert von Kölliker | Swiss anatomist, physiologist (1817–1905) | 1897 | en:In recognition of his important work in embryology, comparative anatomy, and physiology, and especially for his eminence as a histologist. | |
78 | Q123670 | Jean-André Deluc | Swiss geologist and meteorologist (1727–1817) | 1791 | en:For his Improvements in Hygrometry. | |
79 | Q127234 | Albert A. Michelson | Polish physicist | 1907 | en:On the ground of his investigations in optics | |
80 | Q128759 | Stanislao Cannizzaro | Italian chemist (1826-1910) | 1891 | en:For his contributions to chemical philosophy especially for his application of Avogadros theory. | |
81 | Q131729 | William Lawrence Bragg | Australian-born British physicist and X-ray crystallographer | 1966 | en:In recognition of his distinguished contributions to the development of methods of structural determination by X-ray diffraction. | |
82 | Q131733 | Henry Cavendish | British natural philosopher, scientist, and an important experimental and theoretical chemist and physicist | 1766 | en:For his Paper communicated this present year, containing his Experiments relating to Fixed Air. | |
83 | Q131761 | Humphry Davy | British chemist | 1805 | en:For his various Communications published in the Philosophical Transactions. | |
84 | Q133747 | William Henry Bragg | British scientist (1862–1942) | 1930 | en:For his distinguished contributions to crystallography and radioactivity. | |
85 | Q135154 | John Cornforth | Australian-British chemist | 1982 | en:In recognition of his distinguished research on the stereochemically-controlled synthesis and biosynthesis of biologically important molecules. | |
86 | Q137106 | Howard Florey | Australian pathologist (1898-1968) | 1957 | en:In recognition of his distinguished contributions to experimental pathology and medicine. | |
87 | Q148109 | Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar | Indian-American astrophysicist | 1984 | en:In recognition of his distinguished work on theoretical physics, including stellar structure, theory of radiation, hydrodynamic stability and relativity. | |
88 | Q150910 | Charles Algernon Parsons | inventor of the steam turbine (1854-1931) | 1928 | en:For his contributions to engineering science. | |
89 | Q151556 | Richard Owen | English biologist and paleontologist (1804–1892) | 1851 | en:On account of his important discoveries in comparative anatomy & palaeontology, contained in the Philosophical Transactions and numerous other works. | |
90 | Q151564 | Frederick Sanger | British biochemist | 1977 | en:In recognition of his distinguished work on the chemical structure of proteins and his studies on the sequences of nucleic acids. | |
91 | Q151911 | Jöns Jacob Berzelius | Swedish chemist (1779–1848) | 1836 | en:For his systematic application of the doctrine of definite proportions to the analysis of mineral bodies, as contained in his Nouveau Systeme de Mineralogie, and in other of his works. | |
92 | Q153243 | Josiah Willard Gibbs | American scientist (1839–1903) | 1901 | en:For his contributions to mathematical physics. | |
93 | Q154353 | François Arago | French mathematician, physicist, astronomer and politician (1786-1853) | 1825 | en:For the Discovery of the Magnetic Properties of substances not containing Iron. For the Discovery of the power of various bodies, principally metallic, to receive magnetic impressions, in the same, though in a more evanescent manner than malleable Iron, a | |
94 | Q155375 | Archibald Hill | English physiologist and biophysicist (1886-1977) | 1948 | en:For his distinguished researches on myothermal problems and on biophysical phenomena in nerve and other tissues. | |
95 | Q155525 | César Milstein | Argentine biochemist | 1989 | en:In recognition of his outstanding contributions to immunology, in particular to the discovery of monoclonal antibodies and to the understanding of the role of somatic mutations in the maturation of the immune response. | |
96 | Q155764 | Robert Brown | Scottish botanist (1773-1858), discoverer of the cell nucleus and of Brownian Motion | 1839 | en:For his discoveries during a series of years, on the subject of vegetable impregnation. | |
97 | Q155768 | Joseph Lister | British surgeon and antiseptic pioneer (1827–1912) | 1902 | en:In recognition of the value of his physiological and pathological researches in regard to their influence on the modern practice of surgery. | |
98 | Q155907 | Sir George Stokes, 1st Baronet | Irish mathematician and physicist (1819–1903) | 1893 | en:For his researches and discoveries in physical science. | |
99 | Q156941 | Eduard Suess | Austrian geologist (1831-1914) | 1903 | en:For his eminent geological services, & especially for the original researches & conclusions published in his great work "Das Antlitz der Erde". | |
100 | Q156942 | Charles Wheatstone | British physicist (1802-1875) | 1868 | en:For his researches in acoustics, optics, electricity and magnetism. | |
101 | Q157242 | Alexander R. Todd, Baron Todd | British biochemist (1907-1997) | 1970 | en:In recognition of his outstanding contributions to both the analytical and synthetic chemistry of natural products of diverse types. | |
102 | Q157250 | Harry Kroto | British chemist (1939-2016) | 2004 | en:In recognition of his seminal contributions to understanding the fundamental dynamics of carbon chain molecules, leading to the detection of these species (polyynes) in the interstellar medium by radioastronomy, and thence to the genesis of a new era in c | |
103 | Q157501 | Joseph Dalton Hooker | British botanist, lichenologist, and surgeon (1817–1911) | 1887 | en:For his services to botanical science as an investigator, author, and traveller. | |
104 | Q159430 | Arthur Cayley | English mathematician (1821-1895) | 1882 | en:For his numerous profound and comprehensive researches in pure mathematics. | |
105 | Q159636 | Joseph Priestley | English chemist, theologian, educator, and political theorist (1733–1804) | 1772 | en:On account of the many curious and useful Experiments contained in his observations on different kinds of Air, read at the Society in March, 1772, and printed in the Philosophical Transactions. | |
106 | Q160627 | cómo red Russel Wallace | British naturalist, explorer, geographer, anthropologist and biologist (1823-1913) | 1908-11-30 | en:On the ground of the great value of his numerous contributions to natural history, and of the part he took in working out the theory of the origin of species by natural selection. | |
107 | Q160681 | William Huggins | British astronomer (1824–1910) | 1898 | en:For his researches in spectrum analysis applied to the heavenly bodies. | |
108 | Q162900 | Charles Thomson Rees Wilson | Scottish physicist and meteorologist (1869-1959) | 1935 | en:For his work on the use of clouds in advancing our knowledge of atoms and their properties. | |
109 | Q164401 | Simon Newcomb | American astronomer (1835-1909) | 1890 | en:For his contributions to the progress of gravitational astronomy. | |
110 | Q164824 | Jean-Baptiste Dumas | French chemist (1800–1884) | 1843 | en:For his late valuable researches in organic chemistry, particularly those contained in a series of memoirs on chemical types and the doctrine of substitution, and also for his elaborate investigations of the atomic weights of carbon, oxygen, hydrogen, nit | |
111 | Q168468 | David Brewster | British astronomer and mathematician (1781–1868) | 1815 | en:For his Paper on the Polarization of Light by Reflection from Transparent Bodies. | |
112 | Q172254 | Élie Metchnikoff | Russian-French immunologist, embryologist, biologist | 1906 | en:On the ground of the importance of his work in zoology and in pathology. | |
113 | Q177681 | Thomas Hunt Morgan | American biologist (1866–1945) | 1939 | en:For his establishment of the modern science of genetics which had revolutionized our understanding, not only of heredity, but of the mechanism and nature of evolution. | |
114 | Q182915 | William Henry | British chemist who formulated the law on the solubility of gases into liquids | 1808 | en:For his various papers communicated to the society, and printed in the Philosophical Transactions. | |
115 | Q184337 | G.H. Hardy | British mathematician (1877–1947) | 1947 | en:For his distinguished part in the development of mathematical analysis in England during the last thirty years. | |
116 | Q184366 | Thomas Henry Huxley | British biologist and comparative anatomist (1825–1895) | 1888 | en:For his investigations on the morphology and histology of vertebrate and invertebrate animals, and for his services to biological science in general during many past years. | |
117 | Q184433 | Andrew Wiles | English mathematician (1953–) | 2017 | en:For his beautiful and unexpected proof of Fermat's Last Theorem which is one of the most important mathematical achievements of the 20th century | |
118 | Q184499 | Patrick Blackett | British physicist (1897–1974) | 1956 | en:In recognition of his outstanding studies of cosmic ray showers and heavy mesons and in the field of palaeomagnetism. | |
119 | Q187966 | Léon Foucault | French physicist | 1855 | en:For his various researches in experimental physics.1854 Johannes Muller. For his important contributions to different branches of physiology and comparative anatomy, and particularly for his researches on the embryology of the Echinodermata, contained in | |
120 | Q188929 | Arthur Evans | British archaeologist and scholar (1851–1941) | 1936 | en:In recognition of his pioneer work in Crete, particularly his contributions to the history and civilization of its Minoan age. | |
121 | Q189485 | Nevill Francis Mott | English physicist, Nobel prize winner | 1972 | en:In recognition of his original contributions over a long period to atomic and solid state physics. | |
122 | Q189552 | William Crookes | British chemist and physicist (1832-1919) | 1904 | en:For his long-continued researches in spectroscopic chemistry, on electrical & mechanical phenomena in highly-rarefied gases, on radio-active phenomena, and other subjects. | |
123 | Q190626 | Aaron Klug | British chemist and biophysicist | 1985 | en:In recognition of his outstanding contributions to our understanding of complex biological structures and the methods used for determining them. | |
124 | Q190772 | Siméon Denis Poisson | French mathematician, mechanician and physicist (1781–1840) | 1832 | en:For his work entitled, Nouvelle Theorie de lAction Capillaire. | |
125 | Q191026 | Francis Galton | English geographer, statistician, eugenicist (1822-1911) | 1910 | en:On the ground of his researches in heredity. | |
126 | Q192112 | Peter Higgs | British physicist and Nobel Prize winner (1929–2024) | 2015 | en:For his fundamental contribution to particle physics with his theory explaining the origin of mass in elementary particles, confirmed by the experiments at the Large Hadron Collider. | |
127 | Q193550 | Frank Macfarlane Burnet | Australian virologist (1899-1985) | 1959 | en:In recognition of his distinguished contributions to knowledge of viruses and of immunology. | |
128 | Q193650 | Alan Lloyd Hodgkin | physiologist and biophysicist (1914-1998) | 1965 | en:In recognition of his discovery of the mechanism of excitation and impulse conduction in nerve, and his outstanding leadership in the development of neurophysiology. | |
129 | Q193803 | Roger Penrose | English mathematical physicist, recreational mathematician and philosopher | 2008 | en:For his beautiful and original insights into many areas of mathematics and mathematical physics. Sir Roger has made outstanding contributions to general relativity theory and cosmology, most notably for his work on black holes and the Big Bang. | |
130 | Q201803 | Benjamin Robins | British engineer | 1746 | en:On account of his curious Experiments for showing the resistance of the Air, and his rules for establishing his doctrine thereon for the motion of Projectiles. | |
131 | Q207719 | Martin Evans | English developmental biologist | 2009 | en:For his seminal work on embryonic stem cells in mice, which revolutionised the field of genetics. | |
132 | Q207992 | Peter D. Mitchell | British biochemist (1920-1992) | 1981 | ||
133 | Q208230 | Claude Bernard | French physiologist (1813-1878) | 1876 | en:For his numerous contributions to the science of physiology. | |
134 | Q208356 | Michael Atiyah | British mathematician | 1988 | en:In recognition of his fundamental contributions to a wide range of topics in geometry, topology, analysis and theoretical physics. | |
135 | Q213504 | Charles Scott Sherrington | English footballer, neurophysiologist and Nobel Prize recipient (1857–1952) | 1927 | en:For his distinguished work on neurology. | |
136 | Q214209 | Peter Medawar | English-brazilian biologist (1915–1987) | 1969 | en:In recognition of his distinguished studies of tissue transplantation and immunological tolerance. | |
137 | Q216723 | Ronald Fisher | British statistician, evolutionary biologist and geneticist (1890–1962) | 1955 | en:In recognition of his numerous and distinguished contributions to developing the theory and application of statistics for making quantitative a vast field of biology. | |
138 | Q219716 | Paul Nurse | Nobel prize winning British biochemist | 2005 | en:For his contributions to cell biology in general, and to the elucidation of the control of cell division. | |
139 | Q231292 | Edgar Douglas Adrian | English electrophysiologist (1889-1977) | 1946 | en:For his distinguished researches on the fundamental nature of nervous activity, and recently on the localization of certain nervous functions. | |
140 | Q232316 | Robert Burns Woodward | American chemist | 1978 | en:In recognition of his masterly contributions to the synthesis of complex natural products and his discovery of the importance of orbital symmetry. | |
141 | Q233973 | John Pople | Nobel prize winning British chemist (1925-2004) | 2002 | en:For his development of computational methods in quantum chemistry. His work transformed density functional theory into a powerful theoretical tool for chemistry, chemical physics and biology. | |
142 | Q233974 | Jocelyn Bell Burnell | British astrophysicist (born 1943) | 2021 | ||
143 | Q233976 | Frederick Hopkins | English biochemist | 1926 | en:For his distinguished and fruitful work in biochemistry. | |
144 | Q234463 | Sydney Brenner | South African biologist, Nobel prize in Physiology or Medicine 2002 | 1991 | en:In recognition of his many contributions to molecular genetics and developmental biology, and his recent role in the Human Genome mapping project. | |
145 | Q235184 | John E. Walker | British chemist | 2012 | en:For his ground-breaking work on bioenergetics, discovering the mechanism of ATP synthesis in the mitochondrion. | |
146 | Q253133 | Jacques Miller | French-Australian research scientist | 2001 | en:For his work on the immunological function of the thymus and of T cells, which has revolutionised the science of immunology. Professor Millers work is paving the way for designing new methods to improve resistance to infections, producing new vaccines, en | |
147 | Q257668 | George Edwards | English naturalist and ornithologist | 1750 | en:On account of a very curious Book lately published by him, and intiyled, A Natural History of Birds, &c. - containing the Figures elegantly drawn, and illuminated in their proper colours, of 209 different Birds, and about 20 very rare Quadrupeds, Serpents | |
148 | Q262827 | Thomas Lewis | British cardiologist | 1941 | en:For his clinical and experimental investigations upon the mammalian heart. | |
149 | Q271651 | Michel Eugène Chevreul | French chemist (1786-1889) | 1857 | en:For his researches in organic chemistry, particularly on the composition of the fats, andf for his researches on the contrast of coulours. | |
150 | Q277579 | James Dewar | Scottish chemist and physicist (1842–1923) | 1916 | en:For his important investigations in physical chemistry, more especially his researches on the liquefaction of gases. | |
151 | Q280250 | Carlo Matteucci | Italian politician and physicist (1811–1868) | 1844 | en:or his various researches in animal electricity | |
152 | Q286440 | Pierre-Paul Émile Roux | French physician, bacteriologist and immunologist | 1917 | en:On the ground of his eminence as a bacteriologist, and as a pioneer in serum therapy. | |
153 | Q295700 | Rodney Robert Porter | English biochemist and Nobel laureate (1917-1985) | 1983 | en:In recognition of his elucidation of the structure of immunoglobulins and of the reactions involved in activating the complement system of proteins. | |
154 | Q310781 | James Joseph Sylvester | English mathematician (1814-1897) | 1880 | en:For his long continued investigations & discoveries in mathematics. | |
155 | Q311115 | Henri Victor Regnault | French physicist | 1869 | en:For the second volume of his Relation des Experiences pour determiner les lois et les donnees physiques necessaries au calcul des machines a feu, including his elaborate investigations on the specific heat of gases and vapours, and various papers on the e | |
156 | Q311223 | Edward Sabine | British Army general (1788-1883) | 1821 | en:For his various Communications to the Royal Society relating to his researches made in the late Expedition to the Arctic Regions. | |
157 | Q312017 | Stephen Hales | British scientist (1677-1761) | 1739 | en:For his Experiments towards the Discovery of Medicines for dissolving the Stone; and Preservatives for keeping Meat in long voyages at Sea | |
158 | Q312278 | James Bradley | English astronomer; Astronomer Royal | 1748 | en:On account of his very curious and wonderful discoveries in the apparent motion of the Fixed Stars, and the causes of such apparent motion. | |
159 | Q312288 | George Ellery Hale | American solar astronomer | 1932 | en:For his distinguished work on the solar magnetic phenomena and for his eminence as a scientific engineer, especially in connexion with Mount Wilson Observatory. | |
160 | Q312389 | William Buckland | English clergyman, geologist and palaeontologist (1784-1856) | 1822 | en:For his Paper on the Fossil Teeth and Bones discovered in a Cave at Kirkdale. | |
161 | Q312975 | William Hyde Wollaston | English chemist and physicist (1766–1828) | 1802 | en:For his various Papers printed in the Philosophical Transactions. | |
162 | Q314335 | John Harrison | British clockmaker, horologist and inventor of the marine chronometer | 1749 | en:On account of those very curious Instruments, invented and made by him, for the exact mensuration of Time. | |
163 | Q315129 | Oswald Avery | Canadian-born American physician and medical researcher | 1945 | en:For his success in introducing chemical methods in the study of immunity against infective diseases. | |
164 | Q315197 | Stephen Gray | British astronomer | 1731 1732 |
en:For his new Electrical Experiments: - as an encouragement to him for the readiness he has always shown in obliging the Society with his discoveries and improvements in this part of Natural Knowledge. en:For the Experiments he made for the year 1732. |
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165 | Q315366 | James Dwight Dana | American mineralogist , scientist and zoologist (1813-1895) | 1877 | en:For his biological, geological, and mineralogical investigations, carried on through half a century, and for the valuable works in which his conclusions and discoveries have been published. | |
166 | Q315752 | John Frederic Daniell | English chemist and physicist | 1837 | ||
167 | Q318004 | Antoine César Becquerel | French scientist and pioneer in the study of electric and luminescent phenomena (1788-1878) | 1837 | en:Becquerel; John Frederic Daniell. For his various memoirs on the subject of electricity, published in the Memoires deacademie Royale des Sciences de lInstitut de France, and particularly for those on the production of crystals of metallic sulphurets and o | |
168 | Q318067 | Michel Chasles | French mathematician (*1793 – †1880) | 1865 | en:For his historical and original researches in pure geometry. | |
169 | Q323028 | Edward Waring | English mathematician | 1784 | en:For his Mathematical Communications to the Society. For his Paper On the Summation of Series, whose general term is a determinate function of z the distance from the first term of the series. | |
170 | Q323207 | John Maynard Smith | British theoretical evolutionary biologist and geneticist (1920-2004) | 1999 | en:In recognition of his seminal contributions to evolutionary biology, including his experimental work on sexual selection, his important contributions to our understanding of ageing, his introduction of game theoretical methods for the analysis of complex | |
171 | Q325016 | George Howard Darwin | English astronomer, mathematician (*1845 – †1912) | 1911 | en:On the ground of his researches on tidal theory, the figures of the planets, and allied subjects. | |
172 | Q333762 | Thomas Graham | British chemist (1805–1869) | 1862 | en:For three memoirs of the diffusion of liquids, published in the Philosophical Transactions for 1850 and 1851; for a memoir on osmotic force in the Philosophical Transactions for 1854; and particularly for a paper on liquid diffusion applied to analysis, i | |
173 | Q336397 | Robert May, Baron May of Oxford | Australian scientist who has been Chief Scientific Adviser to the UK Government (1936-2020) | 2007 | en:For his seminal studies of interactions within and among biological populations that have reshaped our understanding of how species, communities and entire ecosystems respond to natural or human created disturbance. | |
174 | Q350891 | Adam Sedgwick | English geologist (1785-1873) | 1863 | en:For his original observations and discoveries in the geology of the Palaeozoic Series of rocks, and more especially for his determination of the characters of the Devonian System, by observations of the order of superposition of the Killas rocks & their f | |
175 | Q353426 | John Edensor Littlewood | English mathematician | 1958 | en:In recognition of his distinguished contributions to many branches of analysis, including Tauberian theory, the Riemann zeta function, and non-linear differential equations. | |
176 | Q361386 | Edward Frankland | English chemist | 1894 | en:For his eminent services to theoretical & applied chemistry. | |
177 | Q361900 | Roderick Murchison, 1st Baronet | British geologist (1792-1871) | 1849 | en:For the eminent services he has rendered to geological science during many years of active observation in several parts of Europe; and especially for the establishment of that classification of the older Palaeozoic deposits designated the Silurian System, | |
178 | Q366051 | Charles-Adolphe Wurtz | French chemist (1817-1884) | 1881 | en:For his discovery of the organic ammonias, the glycols, and other investigations which have exercised considerable influence on the progress of chemistry. | |
179 | Q370136 | George William Hill | American astronomer and mathematician (*1838 – †1914) | 1909 | en:On the ground of his researches in mathematical astronomy. | |
180 | Q373799 | Giovanni Plana | Italian astronomer (1781-1864) | 1834 | en:For his work entitled, Theorie du Mouvement de la Lune. | |
181 | Q375172 | John Goodricke | Dutch astronomer (1764-1786) | 1783 | en:For his discovery of the Period of the Variation of Light in the Star Algol. | |
182 | Q377800 | Smithson Tennant | British chemist (1761-1815) | 1804 | en:For his various Chemical Discoveries communicated to the Society, and printed in several volumes of the Philosophical Transactions. | |
183 | Q377985 | Joseph Barcroft | Physiologist, studied the oxygenation of blood | 1943 | en:For his distinguished work on respiration and the respiratory function of the blood. | |
184 | Q378065 | Charles Hatchett | British chemist | 1798 | en:For his Chemical Communications printed in the Philosophical Transactions. | |
185 | Q379999 | Harold Jeffreys | British geophysicist and statistician | 1960 | en:In recognition of his distinguished work in many branches of geophysics, and also in the theory of probability and astronomy. | |
186 | Q385803 | Robin Hill | British biochemist (1899-1991) | 1987 | en:In recognition of his pioneering contributions to the understanding of the nature and mechanism of the main pathway of electron transport in photosynthesis. | |
187 | Q390352 | Peter Barlow | British mathematician and physicist | 1825 | en:For his various Communications on the subject of Magnetism. | |
188 | Q427418 | Theobald Smith | American epidemiologist | 1933 | en:For his original research and observation on diseases of animals and man. | |
189 | Q441174 | George Atwood | English mathematician | 1796 | en:For his Paper on the construction and analysis of geometrical propositions determining the positions assumed by homogeneal bodies which float freely, and at rest; and also determining the Stability of Ships and other floating bodies. | |
190 | Q450757 | Nevil Maskelyne | fifth Astronomer Royal (*1765 – †1811) | 1775 | en:In consideration of his curious and laborious Observations on the Attraction of Mountains, made in Scotland, - on Schehallien. | |
191 | Q460922 | John Smeaton | English engineer (1724-1792) | 1759 | en:On account of his curious Experiments concerning Water-wheels and Wind-mill Sails, communicated to the Society. For his experimental enquiry concerning the powers of water and wind in the moving of Mills | |
192 | Q462269 | William Watson | English physician and scientist (1715–1787) | 1745 | en:On account of the surprising discoveries in the phenomena of Electricity, exhibited in his late Experiments. | |
193 | Q464935 | David Cox | English statistician | 2010 | en:For his seminal contributions to the theory and applications of statistics | |
194 | Q471703 | Edward Delaval | British scientist | 1766 | en:For his Experiments and Observations on the agreement between the specific gravities of the several Metals, and their colours when united to glass, as well as those of their other preparations. | |
195 | Q497656 | James Ivory | Scottish mathematician | 1814 | en:For his various Mathematical Contributions printed in the Philosophical Transactions. | |
196 | Q503318 | Jean-Baptiste Boussingault | French chemist who made significant contributions to agricultural science, petroleum science and metallurgy | 1878 | en:For his long-continued and important researches and discoveries in agricultural chemistry. | |
197 | Q505173 | Henri Milne-Edwards | French zoologist (1800-1885) | 1856 | en:For his researches in comparative anatomy and zoology. | |
198 | Q505186 | John Dollond | English optician, known for his achromatic doublets | 1758 | en:On account of his curious Experiments and Discoveries concerning the different refrangibility of the Rays of Light, communicated to the Society. | |
199 | Q505981 | John Hunter | Scottish surgeon (1728-1793) | 1787 | en:For his three Papers, - On the Ovaria, On the identity of the dog, wolf, and jackall species, and On the anatomy of Whales, printed in the Philosophical Transactions for 1787. | |
200 | Q511916 | Alec Jeffreys | British geneticist | 2014-08-05 | en:For his numerous scie+A1:H277ntific contributions and, in particular, for initiating research on two‐dimensional atomic crystals and their artificial heterostructures. | |
201 | Q526816 | John Walsh | scientist and politician from England born in 1726 | 1773 | en:For his Paper on the Torpedo | |
202 | Q536500 | Joseph Larmor | Irish physicist and mathematician (1857-1942) | 1921 | en:For his researches in mathematical physics. | |
203 | Q537479 | Alan Fersht | British chemist | 2020-08-04 | en:He has developed and applied the methods of protein engineering to provide descriptions of protein folding pathways at atomic resolution, revolutionising our understanding of these processes. | |
204 | Q550798 | John Canton | British physicist | 1751 1764 |
en:For his very ingenious and elegent Experiments in the Air Pump and Condensing Engine, to prove the Compressibility of Water, and some other Fluids. | |
205 | Q559029 | John Scott Haldane | British physiologist | 1934 | en:In recognition of his discoveries in human physiology and of their application to medicine, mining, diving and engineering. | |
206 | Q594936 | William Bayliss | British physiologist | 1919 | en:On the ground of his researches in general physiology & biophysics. | |
207 | Q658008 | John Theophilus Desaguliers | French-born British natural philosopher and clergyman | 1734 1736 1741 |
en:For his experiments made during the year. en:In consideration of his several Experiments performed before the Society en:For his Experiments towards the discovery of the properties of Electricity. As an addition to his allowance (as Curator) for the present year. |
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208 | Q686218 | John Huxham | English surgeon; (1672-1768) | 1755 | en:For his many useful Experiments on Antimony, of which an account had been read to the Society. | |
209 | Q693204 | Sir Benjamin Collins Brodie, 1st Baronet | British surgeon | 1811 | en:For his Papers printed in the Philosophical Transactions. On the influence of the Brain on the action of the Heart, and the generation of Animal Heat; and on the different modes in which death is brought on by certain Vegetable Poisons. | |
210 | Q699541 | Geoffrey Ingram Taylor | British mathematician and physicist (1886-1975) | 1944 | en:For his many contributions to aerodynamics, hydrodynamics, and the structure of metals, which have had a profound influence on the advance of physical science and its applications. | |
211 | Q704696 | Ray Lankester | British zoologist (1847-1929) | 1913 | en:On the ground of the high scientific value of the researches in zoology carried out by him. | |
212 | Q711256 | Sydney Chapman | British mathematician and geophysicist (1888–1970) | 1964 | en:In recognition of his theoretical contributions to terrestrial and interplanetary magnetism, the ionosphere and the aurora borealis. | |
213 | Q711452 | Arthur Schuster | Anglo-German physicist (1851-1934) | 1931 | en:For his distinguished researches in optics and terrestrial magnetism. | |
214 | Q714609 | Frank Fenner | Australian virologist | 1995 | en:In recognition of his contribution to animal virology with special emphasis on the pox and myxomatosis viruses and their relationship with the host in causing disease. | |
215 | Q726736 | Charles Hutton | English mathematician | 1778 | en:For his paper, entitled, The force of Fired Gunpowder, and the initial velocity of Cannon Balls, determined by Experiments. | |
216 | Q728463 | Alan Cottrell | British metallurgist and physicist (1919-2012) | 1996 | en:In recognition of his contribution to the understanding of mechanical properties of materials and related topics through his pioneering studies on crystal plasticity, dislocation impurity interactions, fracture and irradiation effects. | |
217 | Q742464 | John Pond | British astronomer | 1823 | en:For his various Communications to the Royal Society. | |
218 | Q749557 | Astley Cooper | English surgeon and anatomist | 1801 | en:For his Papers - on the effects which take place from the destruction of the Membrana Tympani of the Ear; with an account of an operation for the removal of a particular species of Deafness. | |
219 | Q763176 | Robert Seppings | Surveyor of the Royal Navy; British naval architect | 1818 | en:For his Papers on the construction of Ships of War, printed in the Philosophical Transactions. | |
220 | Q775400 | William Prout | British chemist (1785-1850) | 1827 | en:For his Paper, entitled, On the ultimate Composition of simple alimentary substances, with some preliminary remarks on the analysis of organized bodies in general. (Prout); For his magnetic and other observations made during the Arctic expedition to Port | |
221 | Q778582 | James MacCullagh | Irish mathematician | 1842 | en:For his researches connected with the wave theory of light, contained in the Transactions of the Royal Irish Academy. | |
222 | Q817749 | Benjamin Wilson | British painter and scientist (1721-1788) | 1760 | en:For his many curious Experiments in Electricity, communicated to the Society within the year. | |
223 | Q901070 | Richard Kirwan | Irish geologist and chemist (1733-1812) | 1782 | en:As a reward for the merit of his labours in the science of Chemistry. For his chemical analyses of Salts. | |
224 | Q902340 | Edward Charles Howard | British chemist (1774-1816) | 1800 | en:For his Paper on a New Fulminating Mercury. | |
225 | Q903240 | Albert Kluyver | Dutch botanist, microbiologist, and biochemist (1888-1956) | 1953 | en:For his distinguished contributions of a fundamental character to the science of microbiology. | |
226 | Q903246 | William Lewis | English chemist and physician | 1754 | en:For the many Experiments made by him on Platina, which tend to the discovery of the sophistication of gold: - which he would have entirely completed, but was obliged to put a stop to his further enquiries for want of materials. | |
227 | Q906529 | John B. Goodenough | American materials scientist (1922–2023) | 2019 | ||
228 | Q907583 | Alan R. Battersby | British chemist (1925-2018) | 2000 | en:In recognition of his pioneering work in elucidating the detailed biosynthetic pathways to all the major families of plant alkaloids. His approach, which stands as a paradigm for future biosynthetic studies on complex molecules, combines isolation work, s | |
229 | Q909884 | E. T. Whittaker | British mathematician who contributed widely to applied mathematics, mathematical physics, the theory of special functions, and the history of physics. (*1873 – †1956) | 1954 | en:For his distinguished contributions to both pure and applied mathematics and to theoretical physics. | |
230 | Q909899 | Peter Woulfe | Irish chemist | 1768 | en:For his Experiments on the Distillation of Acids, Volatile Alkalies, and other substances. | |
231 | Q928236 | Henry Baker | English naturalist (1698–1774) | 1744 | en:For his curious Experiments relating to the Crystallization or Configuration of the minute particles of Saline Bodies dissolved in a menstruum. | |
232 | Q934747 | John Ellis | linen merchant, botanist and naturalist (1710-1776) | 1767 | en:For his Papers of the year 1767, On the animal nature of the Genus of Zoophytes called Corallina, and the Actinia Sociata, or Clustered Animal Flower, lately found on the sea coasts of the new-ceded Islands. | |
233 | Q935307 | Paul Fildes | British pathologist and microbiologist | 1963 | en:In recognition of his pioneering contributions to bacteriology. | |
234 | Q940986 | Thomas Andrew Knight | British botanist (1759-1838) | 1806 | en:For his various Papers on Vegetation, printed in the Philosophical Transactions. | |
235 | Q944275 | James Lighthill | British applied mathematician (1924–1998) | 1998 | en:In recognition of his profound contributions to many fields within fluid mechanics including important aspects of the interaction of sound and fluid flow and numerous other contributions which have had practical applications in aircraft engine design. He | |
236 | Q965945 | James Rennell | English geographer, historian and oceanographer (1742–1830) | 1791 | en:For his Paper on the Rate of Travelling as performed by Camels, printed in the last (81st) volume of the Philosophical Transactions. | |
237 | Q969604 | Everard Home | British surgeon; (1756-1832) | 1807 | en:For his various Papers on Anatomy and Physiology, printed in the Philosophical Transactions. | |
238 | Q977036 | Frederick Charles Frank | British physicist | 1994 | en:In recognition of his fundamental contribution to the theory of crystal morphology, in particular to the source of dislocations and their consequences in interfaces and crystal growth; to fundamental understanding of liquid crystals and the concept of dis | |
239 | Q983374 | George Salmon | Irish mathematician and Anglican theologian (*1819 – †1904) | 1889 | en:For his various papers on subjects of pure mathematics, and for the valuable mathematical treatises of which he is the author. | |
240 | Q999118 | William Thomas Brande | British chemist; succeeded Humphry Davy as Professor of Chemistry at the Royal Institution, 1813.; (1788-1866) | 1813 | en:For his Communications concerning the Alcohol contained in Fermented Liquors and other Papers, printed in the Philosophical Transactions. | |
241 | Q1063743 | Charles Blagden | British physician and scientist | 1788 | en:For his two Papers on Congelation, printed in the last (78th) volume of the Philosophical transactions. | |
242 | Q1107900 | Henry Kater | British astronomer (1777-1835) | 1817 | en:For his Experiments on the Pendulum. | |
243 | Q1107977 | Samuel Vince | British mathematician, astronomer and physicist | 1780 | en:For his paper, entitled, An investigation of the Principles of Progressive and Rotatory Motion, printed in the Philosophical Transactions. | |
244 | Q1117138 | Edward Albert Sharpey-Schafer | physiologist | 1924 | en:For the valuable work he has done in physiology and histology and the position he now occupies as a leader in these sciences. | |
245 | Q1156260 | Horace Tabberer Brown | British chemist (1848-1925) | 1920 | en:On the ground of his work on the chemistry of carbohydrates, &c. | |
246 | Q1159121 | Armenio Peter | British geophysicist (born 1942) | 2011 | en:For his seminal contributions to the understanding of geological and geophysical phenomena including tectonic plates. | |
247 | Q1174949 | David Keilin | British entomologist | 1951 | en:For his fundamental researches in the fields of protozoology, entomology and the biochemistry of enzymes. | |
248 | Q1231580 | John Brinkley | Bishop of Cloyne; Royal Astronomer of Ireland; Irish Anglican bishop and astronomer | 1824 | en:For his various Communications to the Royal Society. | |
249 | Q1242490 | Gowin Knight | British physicist (1713-1772) | 1747 | en:On account of several very curious Experiments exhibited by him, both with Natural and Artificial Magnets. | |
250 | Q1293897 | Edward Troughton | British telescope maker | 1809 | en:For the Account of his Method of dividing Astronomical Instruments, printed in the last volume of the Philosophical Transactions. | |
251 | Q1309746 | Francis Kiernan | Anatomist and physician | 1836 | en:For his discoveries relating to the structure of the liver, as detailed in his paper communicated to the Royal Society, and published in the Philosophical Transactions for 1833. | |
252 | Q1338141 | Jesse Ramsden | British engraver and instrument maker | 1795 | en:For his various inventions and improvements in the construction of the Instruments for the Trigonometrical measurements carried on by the late Major General Roy, and by Lieut. Col. Williams and his associates. | |
253 | Q1348255 | John Pringle | Scottish physician | 1752 | en:On account of his very curious and useful Experiments and Observations on Septic and Anti-septic Substances, communicated to the Society. | |
254 | Q1356359 | W. V. D. Hodge | British mathematician | 1974 | en:In recognition of his pioneering work in algebraic geometry, notably in his theory of harmonic integrals. | |
255 | Q1365806 | Henry Foster | Royal Navy officer and scientist | 1827 | ||
256 | Q1387590 | Hugh Huxley | English biologist (1924-2013) | 1997 | en:In recognition of his pioneering work on the structure of muscle and on the molecular mechanisms of muscle contraction, providing solutions to one of the great problems in physiology. | |
257 | Q1530841 | Norman Pirie | British biochemist (1907-1997) | 1971 | en:In recognition of his distinguished contributions to biochemistry and especially for his elucidation of the nature of plant viruses. | |
258 | Q1627897 | Horace Lamb | English mathematician (*1849 – †1934) | 1923 | en:For his researches in mathematical physics. | |
259 | Q1678456 | Richard Henderson | Nobel prize winning British biochemist | 2016 | en:For his fundamental and revolutionary contributions to the development of electron microscopy of biological materials, enabling their atomic structures to be deduced. | |
260 | Q1886068 | Tomas Lindahl | Nobel prize winning Swedish biologist | 2010 | en:For his seminal contributions to the understanding of the biochemistry of DNA repair. | |
261 | Q1968367 | John Belchier | British surgeon | 1737 | en:For his Experiment to show the property of a Diet of Madder Root in dyeing the Bones of living animals of a red colour. | |
262 | Q2282791 | William Snow Harris | British researcher (1791-1867) | 1835 | en:For his experimental investigations of the force of electricity of high intensity contained in the Philosophical Transactions of 1834. | |
263 | Q2725340 | Christopher Middleton | Royal Navy officer | 1742 | en:For the communication of his Observations in the attempt of discovering a North-West passage to the East Indies through Hudsons Bay. | |
264 | Q2877932 | James South | British astronomer (1785-1867) | 1826 | en:For his observations of Double Stars, and his Paper on the Discordances between the Suns observed and computed Right Ascensions, published in the Transactions of the Society. For his Paper of Observations of the Apparent Distances and Positions of Four Hu | |
265 | Q2958710 | Lord Charles Cavendish | British politician; (1704-1783) | 1757 | en:On account of his very curious and useful invention of making Thermometers, showing respectively the greatest degrees of heat and cold which have happened at any time during the absence of the observer. | |
266 | Q3039871 | William Brownrigg | British scientist | 1766 | en:For an experimental enquiry into the Mineral Elastic Spirit, or Air, contained in Spa-Water; as well as into the Mephitic qualities of this Spirit. | |
267 | Q3052355 | William Hewson | British physiologist | 1769 | en:For his Two Papers, entitled, An Account of the Lymphatic System in Amphibious Animals, - and An Account of the Lymphatic System in Fish. | |
268 | Q3142976 | John Mudge | British doctor | 1777 | en:On account of his valuable Paper containing directions for making the best Composition for the metals of Reflecting Telescopes; together with a description of the process for grinding, polishing, and giving the best speculum the true parabolic form. | |
269 | Q3269878 | Richard Chenevix | Irish chemist | 1803 | en:For his various Chemical Papers printed in the Philosophical Transactions. | |
270 | Q3297579 | Matthew Raper | British astronomer, mathematician and scholar; (1705-1778) | 1771 | en:For his paper entitled, An Enquiry into the value of ancient Greek and Roman Money. | |
271 | Q3300195 | George Shuckburgh-Evelyn | British politician (1751-1804) | 1798 | en:For his various Communications printed in the Philosophical Transactions. | |
272 | Q3378658 | James Valoue | English inventor | 1738 | en:For his invention of an Engine for driving the Piles to make a Foundation for the Bridge to be erected at Westminster, the Model whereof had been shown to the Society | |
273 | Q3499414 | Alexander Stuart | British scientist | 1740 | en:For his Lectures on Muscular Motion. As a further addition for his services to the Society in the care and pains he has taken .therein | |
274 | Q6176064 | Jeffrey I. Gordon | American biologist | 2018 | en:For his contributions to understanding the role of gut microbial communities to human health and disease | |
275 | Q6238574 | John Hellins | British astronomer | 1799 | en:For his improved Solution of a problem in Physical Astronomy, &c. printed in the Philosophical Transactions for the year 1798; and his other Mathematical Papers. | |
276 | Q6958910 | Thomas Hutchins | British physician and naturalist | 1783 | en:For his Experiments to ascertain the point of Mercurial Congelation. | |
277 | Q6963397 | William Roy | Scottish military engineer, surveyor and antiquarian (1726–1790) | 1785 | en:For his Measurement of a Base on Hounslow Heath. | |
278 | Q8015809 | William Morgan | Welsh physician, physicist, statistician and actuary | 1789 | en:For his two Papers on the values of Reversions and Survivorships, printed in the two last volumes of the Philosophical Transactions. |
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