This is a complete list of the founder fellows of the
Royal Society
The Royal Society, formally The Royal Society of London for Improving Natural Knowledge, is a learned society and the United Kingdom's national academy of sciences. The society fulfils a number of roles: promoting science and its benefits, re ...
.Fellows of the Royal Society , Royal Society. Fellowship from 1660 onwards ( xlsx file on Google Docs via the Royal Society) Founder fellows are defined as those present at the inaugural meeting of the Society at Gresham College on 28 November 1660.
Fellows elected in 1660
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William Ball William Ball may refer to:
* William Ball (MP) ( 1571), MP for Nottingham
* William Ball (astronomer) (1627–1690), English astronomer
* William Lee Ball (1781–1824), Virginia congressman
* William Ball (Shropshire Giant) (1795–1852), 40 ston ...
(1627–1690)
* William Brouncker, 2nd Viscount Brouncker (1620–1684)
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Jonathan Goddard
Jonathan Goddard (1617–1675) was an English physician, known both as army surgeon to the forces of Oliver Cromwell, and as an active member of the Royal Society.
Life
The son of a wealthy shipbuilder, Goddard was a student at the Magdalen H ...
(1617–1675)
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Abraham Hill
Abraham Hill Fellow of the Royal Society, FRS (19 April 1633 in London – 5 February 1721) was a British merchant.
Life
Hill was baptised on 16 June 1635 at St Dionis Backchurch, London. His father, Richard Hill, a merchantRobert Moray (1608–1673)
* Sir Paul Neile (1613–1686)
* Sir William Petty (1623–1687)
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Lawrence Rooke
Lawrence Rooke (also Laurence) (1622–26 June 1662) was an English astronomer and mathematician. He was also one of the founders of the Royal Society, although he died as it was being formally constituted.
Life
He was born in Deptford, and ...
(1622–1662)
Fellows elected in 1663
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Robert Boyle
Robert Boyle (; 25 January 1627 – 31 December 1691) was an Anglo-Irish natural philosopher, chemist, physicist, alchemist and inventor. Boyle is largely regarded today as the first modern chemist, and therefore one of the founders of ...
(1627–1691)
* Alexander Bruce, 2nd Earl of Kincardine (1629–1681)
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John Wilkins
John Wilkins, (14 February 1614 – 19 November 1672) was an Anglican clergyman, natural philosopher, and author, and was one of the founders of the Royal Society. He was Bishop of Chester from 1668 until his death.
Wilkins is one of the fe ...
(1614–1672)
* Sir
Christopher Wren
Sir Christopher Wren PRS FRS (; – ) was one of the most highly acclaimed English architects in history, as well as an anatomist, astronomer, geometer, and mathematician-physicist. He was accorded responsibility for rebuilding 52 churches ...
(1632–1723)
See also
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Gresham College and the formation of the Royal Society
The Gresham College group was a loose collection of scientists in England of the 1640s and 1650s, a precursor to the Royal Society of London. Within a few years of the granting of a charter to the Royal Society in 1662, its earlier history was be ...
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Events
January–March
* January 14 – In the Battle of the Lines of Elvas, fought near the small city of Elvas in Portugal during the Portuguese Restoration War, the Spanish Army under the command of Luis Méndez de Haro suff ...