Fellow of the Royal Society
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Headquarters of the Royal Society in Carlton House Terrace in London
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| Awarded for | “substantial contributions to the improvement of natural knowledge” |
| Sponsored by | Royal Society |
| Date | 1663 |
| Location | London |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Presented by | Royal Society |
| No. of Fellows | ~8000 as of 2016[update] of which ~1600 living |
| Official website | royalsociety |
Fellowship of the Royal Society (FRS, ForMemRS & HonFRS) is an award and fellowship granted by the Royal Society of London to individuals the society judges to have made a "substantial contribution to the improvement of natural knowledge, including mathematics, engineering science and medical science".
Fellowship of the Society, the oldest scientific academy in continuous existence, is a significant honour which has been awarded to many eminent scientists from history including Isaac Newton (1672),Charles Darwin (1839),Michael Faraday (1824),Ernest Rutherford (1903),Srinivasa Ramanujan (1919), Albert Einstein (1921),Dorothy Hodgkin (1947),Alan Turing (1951) and Francis Crick (1959). More recently, fellowship has been awarded to Stephen Hawking (1974), Tim Hunt (1991), Elizabeth Blackburn (1992), Tim Berners-Lee (2001), Venkatraman Ramakrishnan (2003), Andre Geim (2007), James Dyson (2015) and around 8000 others in total, including over 280 Nobel Laureates since 1900. As of 2016[update], there are around 1600 living Fellows, Foreign and Honorary Members.
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