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Ruth Fowler Edwards

Fowler was the daughter of physicist Sir Ralph Fowler, FRS (1889–1944) and Eileen Mary Rutherford, herself the only daughter of the celebrated physicist Lord Ernest Rutherford, FRS (1871–1937, the 1908 Nobel laureate in Chemistry "for his investigations into the disintegration of elements, and the chemistry of radioactive substances").


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Adrian Horridge

George Adrian Horridge FRS (born 12 December 1927) is an Australian neurobiologist, and professor at Australian National University.

Alexander Bruce, 2nd Earl of Kincardine

Alexander Bruce, 2nd Earl of Kincardine FRS (1629–1681) was a Scottish inventor, politician, judge and freemason, responsible for developing the pendulum clock, in collaboration with Christiaan Huygens.

Allen Kerr

Allen Kerr AO, FRS, FAA (born 1926) was a Scottish-born Professor of Plant Pathology at the University of Adelaide.

Ann Dowling

Professor Dame Ann Patricia Dowling, DBE, FRS, FREng (born 15 July 1952) is a British mechanical engineer who researches combustion, acoustics and vibration, focusing on efficient, low-emission combustion and reduced road vehicle and aircraft noise.

Arthur William Rucker

Sir Arthur William Rucker (or Rücker), KB, FRS (23 October 1848, Clapham Park, London, England – 1 November 1915, Everington at Yattendon in Berkshire) was a British physicist.

Brian Greenwood

Sir Brian Mellor Greenwood, CBE, FRCP, FRS (born 1938) is a British physician, biomedical research scientist, academic, and recipient of the first Hideyo Noguchi Africa Prize.

Bringewood Ironworks

Richard Knight had two other sons another Richard Knight (1693-1765) and Thomas Knight (1697-1764), the latter being the father of Richard Payne Knight MP (1750-1824) and Thomas Andrew Knight FRS (1759-1838).

Busbridge

Among these was Philip Carteret Webb, FRS, born 1700, solicitor to the Treasury 1756–65, M.P. for Haslemere 1754–67.

Carshalton Boys Sports College

Major-General Edward Robert Festing CB FRS (1839–1912), army officer, chemist, and first Director of the Science Museum, London

Curtius baronets

Sir William Curtius FRS, 1st Baronet (Born Johann Wilhelm di Curti on 12 August 1599 in Bensheim, died 23 January 1678 in Frankfurt am Main).

Dario Alessi

Dario Alessi FRSE FRS (born in France, 1967) is a biochemist, Director of the Medical Research Council Protein Phosphorylation and Ubiquitylation Unit (MRC PPU) and Professor of Signal Transduction, at University of Dundee.

David Pye

Sir David Randall Pye CB, FRS (1886–1960), mechanical engineer and academic administrator

Dirawong

They were named by Lieutenant James Cook (also known as Captain Cook FRS RN) during his voyage along the east coast of Australia in May 1770.

Edward Garth-Turnour, 1st Earl Winterton

Edward Garth-Turnour, 1st Earl Winterton FRS (1734 – 10 August 1788) was a British politician.

Ferranti Blue Fox

The Blue Fox was a lightweight frequency agile I-band airborne radar designed for use on the British Aerospace Sea Harrier FRS.1, with two roles, airborne interception and air-to-surface search and strike.

Finglas

Professor Sir Stephen O'Rahilly FRS, Chair of Clinical Biochemistry and Medicine at the University of Cambridge.

Frederick Gibberd

A further achievement by Gibberd in planning Harlow is his incorporation of works by many leading architects of the post-war years, such as FRS Yorke, Powell & Moya, Graham Dawbarn, John Poulson, Maxwell Fry & Jane Drew, Michael Neylan, William Crabtree, Leonard Manasseh, ECP Monson, Gerard Goalen, Gerald Lacoste, Richard Sheppard and H. T. Cadbury-Brown.

Gregory Holman Bromley Way

Gregory, born in London on 28 December 1776, was the fifth son of Benjamin Way (1740–1808), FRS, of Denham Place, Buckinghamshire, MP for Bridport in 1765, and of his wife Elizabeth Anne (1746–1825), eldest daughter of William Cooke, provost of King's College, Cambridge.

Harold Robinson

Harold Roper Robinson (1889–1955), physicist, FRS, academic, Vice-Chancellor

Harold Wilson bibliography

James Harold Wilson, Baron Wilson of Rievaulx, KG, OBE, FRS, PC (11 March 1916 – 24 May 1995) was one of the most prominent British politicians of the 20th century.

Heckmondwike Grammar School

Frederick Campion Steward FRS, Charles A. Alexander Professor of Biological Sciences from 1965-72 at Cornell University

Heycock

Charles Heycock FRS (1858–1931), English chemist and soldier who was awarded the Davy Medal in 1920

HSC Dolphin Jet

The FRS-service between Morocco and Continental Europe has been initiated back in 2000 on a year-round basis.

HSC Tarifa Jet

Her operator, FRS's service between Continental Europe and Morocco was initiated in 2000 on a year-round basis.

Hugh Allen Oliver Hill

Hugh Allen Oliver Hill FRSC FRS (born 1937), usually known as Allen Hill, is Emeritus Professor of Bioinorganic Chemistry at the University of Oxford and Honorary Fellow of The Queen's College, Oxford and Wadham College, Oxford.

Jack Harley

John Laker "Jack" Harley CBE FRS FLS FIBiol (17 November 1911 – 12 December 1990) was a British biologist.

James Cockle

Sir James Cockle FRS FRAS FCPS FMS (14 January 1819 – 27 January 1895) was an English lawyer and

John Anderson, FRS

John Anderson, 1st Viscount Waverley (1882–1958), British civil servant and politician, was an honorary Fellow of the Royal Society but did not use 'FRS' after his name

John Meres

Sir John Meres (c.1660-15 February 1736) knight, FRS of Kirby Bellars, Leicestershire was the director of a number of companies in the early 18th century, including the Charitable Corporation, the York Buildings Company, and Company of Mineral and Battery Works.

John Viriamu Jones

John Viriamu Jones, FRS (2 January 1856 – 1 June 1901), was a British scientist, who worked on measuring the ohm, and an educationalist who was instrumental in establishing the University of Sheffield and Cardiff University.

Lowestoft College

The Sir Christopher Cockerell building was opened in April 2007 by Lord Somerleyton and Frances Cockerell, daughter of Sir Christopher Cockerell CBE FRS, housing the Construction trades, Boat Building and Computer Aided Design.

Margaret Burbidge

Eleanor Margaret Burbidge (née Peachey), FRS (born August 12, 1919 Davenport) is a British-born American astrophysicist, noted for original research and holding many administrative posts, including director of the Royal Greenwich Observatory.

Melvill Jones

Sir Bennett Melvill Jones, Kt., CBE, AFC, FRS (28 January 1887 – 31 October 1975) was Francis Mond Professor of Aeronautical Engineering at the University of Cambridge from 1919 to 1952.

Morris Sugden

Sir Theodore Morris Sugden FRS, (31 December 1919 - 3 January 1984) was a British chemist who was master of Trinity Hall, Cambridge and winner of the Davy Medal.

North Staffordshire Field Club

Its president from 1865-70 was industrialist and banker James Bateman FRS.

Philippe A. Guye

Philippe A. Guye FRS (12 June 1862 – 27 March 1922) was a Swiss chemist that was awarded the Davy Medal in 1921 "for his researches in physical chemistry".

Samuel Shem

Bergman was a Rhodes Scholar at Balliol College, Oxford in 1966, and was tutored by Denis Noble FRS, cardiac physiologist and later head of the Oxford Cardiac Electrophysiology Group.

Sir William Cusack-Smith, 2nd Baronet

Sir William Cusack-Smith, 2nd Baronet FRS (23 January 1766 – 21 August 1836) was an Irish baronet, politician, and judge.

Somak Raychaudhury

The subject of his doctoral thesis, supervised by Donald Lynden-Bell, FRS, was "Gravity, Galaxies and the "Great Attractor" Survey".

Spiridion Lusi

The name died out in Ireland in 1919 with the death of his grand-daughter Countess Elise de Lusi, but his other Irish descendants include the physicist Professor John Joly FRS (1857–1933).

Stanley Bowie

Stanley Hay Umphray Bowie FRS (born 24 March 1917, in Bixter, Shetland - died 2008) was a Scottish geologist.

Thomas Townsend Bucknill

Bucknill was born at Exminster in 1845, the second son of Sir John Charles Bucknill FRS, a famous mental health specialist who was knighted in 1894 in recognition of his services as one of the founders of the Volunteer Movement.

Transport in Gibraltar

Ferries by FRS running twice a week from Gibraltar to Tanger-Med port provide access to the Moroccan railway system.

Water motorsports at the 1908 Summer Olympics

Gyrinus was the earliest round-bilge Semi-Planing Mono-Hull ('SPMH') designed by Sir John Isaac Thornycroft FRS, the great Victorian engineer, previously the designer and builder of the world's first torpedo boats and torpedo boat 'Destroyers'.

William Marcet

William Marcet FRS FRCP (13 May 1828 - 4 March 1900) was President of the Royal Meteorological Society

William Pengelly

William Pengelly, FRS FGS (12 January 1812 – 16 March 1894) was a British geologist and early archaeologist who was one of the first to contribute proof that the Biblical chronology of the earth calculated by Archbishop James Ussher was incorrect.

William Swainson

William John Swainson, FLS, FRS, (1789-1855), English ornithologist, malacologist, conchologist, entomologist and artist

Zabdiel Boylston

Zabdiel Boylston, FRS (1679 in Brookline, Massachusetts – March 2, 1766) was a physician in the Boston area.


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