Fellows of the Royal Society Fellowship of the Royal Society (FRS, ForMemRS and HonFRS) is an award granted by the judges of the Royal Society of London to individuals who have made a "substantial contribution to the improvement of natural knowledge, including mathemati ...

elected in 1892.

Fellows

Robert Young Armstrong The name Robert is an ancient Germanic given name, from Proto-Germanic "fame" and "bright" (''Hrōþiberhtaz''). Compare Old Dutch ''Robrecht'' and Old High German ''Hrodebert'' (a compound of '' Hruod'' ( non, Hróðr) "fame, glory, honou ...

(1839–1894) #

Frank Evers Beddard Frank Evers Beddard FRS FRSE (19 June 1858 – 14 July 1925) was an English zoologist. He became a leading authority on annelids, including earthworms. He won the Linnean Medal in 1916 for his book on oligochaetes. Life Beddard was born in ...

(1858–1925) # Spencer Compton Cavendish (1833–1908) #

John Ambrose Fleming Sir John Ambrose Fleming FRS (29 November 1849 – 18 April 1945) was an English electrical engineer and physicist who invented the first thermionic valve or vacuum tube, designed the radio transmitter with which the first transatlantic ra ...

(1849–1945) # Sir

Clement le Neve Foster Sir Clement le Neve Foster (23 March 1841 – 19 April 1904) was an English geologist and mineralogist. Life and work Le Neve Foster was born in Camberwell, the second son of Peter le Neve Foster (for many years secretary of the Society of Ar ...

(1841–1904) # Hans Friedrich Gadow (1855–1928) # Robert Giffen (1837–1910) #

Francis Gotch Francis Gotch (13 July 1853 – 15 July 1913) was a British neurophysiologist who was professor of physiology at University College Liverpool and Oxford University. He was educated at Amersham Hall School and then at London University graduati ...

(1853–1913) #

William Abbott Herdman Sir William Abbott Herdman FRS FRSE FLS (5 September 1858, Edinburgh – 21 July 1924) was a Scottish marine zoologist and oceanographer. His zoological author abbreviation is Herdman. Life He was born in Edinburgh the son of the artist ...

(1858–1924) #

Farrer Herschell Farrer Herschell, 1st Baron Herschell, (2 November 1837 – 1 March 1899), was Lord High Chancellor of Great Britain in 1886, and again from 1892 to 1895. Life Childhood and education Herschell was born on 2 November 1837 in Brampton, Hampsh ...

(1837–1899) # Frederick Hutton (1836–1905) #

John Joly John Joly FRS (1 November 1857 – 8 December 1933) was an Irish physicist and professor of geology at the University of Dublin, known for his development of radiotherapy in the treatment of cancer. He is also known for developing techniques to ...

(1857–1933) # Sir

Joseph Larmor Sir Joseph Larmor (11 July 1857 – 19 May 1942) was an Irish and British physicist and mathematician who made breakthroughs in the understanding of electricity, dynamics, thermodynamics, and the electron theory of matter. His most influent ...

(1857–1942) #

Louis Compton Miall Louis Compton Miall FRS (12 September 1842, Bradford – 21 February 1921, Leeds) was an English palaeontologist and biologist who was Professor of Biology at the University of Leeds. Early life In 1857 Miall, under the direction of his father, k ...

(1842–1921) #

John Morley John Morley, 1st Viscount Morley of Blackburn, (24 December 1838 – 23 September 1923) was a British Liberal statesman, writer and newspaper editor. Initially, a journalist in the North of England and then editor of the newly Liberal-leani ...

(1838–1923) # Benjamin Neeve Peach (1842–1926) #

Alexander Pedler Sir Alexander Pedler (21 May 1849 – 13 May 1918) was a British civil servant and chemist who worked in the Presidency College, Calcutta where he influenced early studies in chemistry in India by working with pioneer scientists like Prafulla Ch ...

(1849–1918) # Augustus Desiré Waller (1856–1922)

Foreign members

Wilhelm Kühne Wilhelm Friedrich Kühne (28 March 183710 June 1900) was a German physiologist. Born in Hamburg, he is best known today for coining the word enzyme in 1878. Biography Kühne was born at Hamburg on 28 March 1837. After attending the gymnasium ...

(1837–1900) # Eleuthere Elie Nicolas Mascart (1837–1908) # Dmitri Mendeleev (1834–1907) published the first widely recognized periodic table in 1869 #

Hubert Anson Newton Prof Hubert Anson Newton FRS HFRSE (19 March 1830 – 12 August 1896), usually cited as H. A. Newton, was an American astronomer and mathematician, noted for his research on meteors. Biography Newton was born at Sherburne, New York, and gradu ...

(1830–1896)

References

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