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The Landscape and Biodiversity Research Group

Research has been funded by a range of organisations, including: NERC, BBSRC, The Royal Society, The Leverhulme Trust, The British Ecological Society, The Biodiversity Trust, The Royal Entomological Society, South Northamptonshire Council, Friends of the Upper Nene (FUN), The University of Northampton, English Partnerships,


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Albert Fitch Bellows

Bellows also mastered etching—along with Samuel Colman he was possibly the only other Hudson River School artist to do so—and became a member of the New York Etching Club, the Philadelphia Society of Etchers and the Royal Society of Painter-Etchers and Engravers in London, England, an esteemed professional organization whose members included James Abbott McNeill Whistler and Francis Seymour Haden.

Artur Ekert

For his discovery of quantum cryptography he was awarded the 1995 Maxwell Medal and Prize by the Institute of Physics and the 2007 Hughes Medal by the Royal Society.

Augustus Matthiessen

For his work on metals and alloys, he was awarded the Royal Society's Royal Medal in 1869.

Bickell

Frederick Bickell Guthrie (1861–1927), Australian agricultural chemist and a president of the Royal Society of New South Wales

CFEngine

The CFEngine project began in 1993 as a way for author Mark Burgess (then a post-doctoral fellow of the Royal Society at Oslo University, Norway) to get his work done by automating the management of a small group of workstations in the Department of Theoretical Physics.

Charles Conrad Abbott

He was a corresponding member of the Boston Society of Natural History, a member of the American Philosophical Society of Philadelphia, and a fellow of the Royal Society of Antiquaries of the North in Copenhagen.

Davy lamp

(Davy's invention had been preceded by that of William Reid Clanny, an Irish doctor at Bishopwearmouth, who had also read a paper to the Royal Society in May 1813. The more cumbersome Clanny safety lamp was successfully tested at Herrington Mill and he too won medals, from the Royal Society of Arts).

Denis Hall

He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh, the IEEE, the UK Institute of Physics, the IEE, and the Optical Society of America.

Edgar Ravenswood Waite

Waite accompanied Charles Hedley of the Australian Museum on the 1896 Funafuti Coral Reef Boring Expedition of the Royal Society under Professor William Sollas and Professor Edgeworth David.

Frances Ashcroft

She appeared (as a diner) on MasterChef during the 2011 series, along with several other Fellows of the Royal Society.

François Budan de Boislaurent

Budan's work on approximation was studied by Horner in preparing his celebrated article in the Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London in 1819 that gave rise to the term Horner's method; Horner comments there and elsewhere on Budan's results, at first being sceptical of the value of Budan's work, but later warming to it.

Gregory Kealey

He currently serves on the Scientific Advisory Committee of the Council of Canadian Academies and on the Finance Committee of the Royal Society of Canada.

Henry Dewar

He wrote also for the Encyclopædia Britannica, and the Transactions of the Royal Society of Edinburgh.

Hugh Alexander Webster

Hugh Webster was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh FRSE on 2 May 1887 proposed by Sir John Murray, William Evans Hoyle, Robert Gray, Alexander Buchan.

Ibrahim B. Syed

He is a Fellow of the American College of Radiology, the American Institute of Chemists, the British Institute of Physics, and the Royal Society of Health.

Instrumentation

In 1663 Christopher Wren presented the Royal Society with a design for a "weather clock".

James Beament

In 1968, at the request of the Royal Society, Beament went to Ghana to advise that country's government on the effective utilization of Lake Volta.

James Bradley

This discovery of what became known as the aberration of light was, for all realistic purposes, conclusive evidence for the movement of the Earth, and hence for the correctness of Aristarchus' and Kepler's theories; it was announced to the Royal Society in January 1729 (Phil. Trans. xxxv. 637).

Jean Beggs

In 2003 she was awarded the Royal Society's Gabor Medal "for her contributions to the isolation and manipulation of recombinant DNA molecules in a eukaryotic organism, adding a new dimension to molecular and cellular biology".

Jeremy Sanders

2009 – Davy Medal, The Royal Society "for his pioneering contributions to several fields, most recently to the field of dynamic combinatorial chemistry at the forefront of supramolecular chemistry"

Johann Weikhard von Valvasor

Upon the proposal of Edmond Halley, who was not only an astronomer but also a geophysicist, and in 1687 his extensive treatise on the hydrology of the intermittent Lake Cerknica won him a Fellowship of the Royal Society.

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 Stenhouse

In 1871 he received the Royal Medal of the Royal Society for his chemical researches.

John Wrottesley, 2nd Baron Wrottesley

In 1853 he called the attention of the House of Lords to Lieutenant Maury's valuable scheme of meteorological observations and discoveries; and on Nov. 30, 1855, succeeded the Earl of Rosse as President of the Royal Society.

Karen Steel

Together with Professor Christine Petit, Steel won the Royal Society Brain Prize 2012, for their pioneering work on the genetics of hearing and deafness.

Leonard Darwin

He considered himself to be the least intelligent of their children (brothers Frank, George and Horace were all elected Fellows of the Royal Society).

Lionel Crawford

He was awarded the Gabor Medal of the Royal Society in 2005 "in recognition for his work on the small DNA tumour viruses, specifically the papova virus group, papilloma, polyoma and SV40".

Lord Anderson

Adam Anderson, Lord Anderson (1797–1853), a Scottish judge, Solicitor General for Scotland and Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh

Martin Taylor

Sir Martin J. Taylor (born 1952), British mathematician and past Vice-President of the Royal Society

Milner Award

The Royal Society Milner Award, supported by Microsoft Research, is given for outstanding achievement in computer science by a European researcher.

Moneyglass

He was the Father of Frank McCourt, author of Angela's Ashes and other books, and winner of The Pulitzer Prize, The NBCC Award, The LA Times Award and the Royal Society of Literature Award.

Naguib Pasha Mahfouz

On 1 July 1947, the Royal Society of Medicine of England bestowed its Honorary Fellowship upon Professor Naguib Mahfouz together with Sir Alexander Fleming, the discoverer of Penicillin, and an atomic scientist.

Philip John Stead

He was elected a fellow of the Royal Society of Literature in 1950 and was appointed to the National Police College at Bramshill House in 1953.

Richard Vyvyan

Sir Richard Vyvyan, 8th Baronet (1800–1879), Member of Parliament and Fellow of the Royal Society

Rosalind Franklin Award

The Royal Society Rosalind Franklin Award was established in 2003 and is awarded annually by the Royal Society to a person for an outstanding work in any field of science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM fields).

Royal Society of Portrait Painters

The Royal Society of Portrait Painters is a British association of portrait painters which holds an annual exhibition at the Mall Galleries in London.

Schiehallion experiment

The Royal Society formed the Committee of Attraction to consider the matter, appointing Maskelyne, Joseph Banks and Benjamin Franklin amongst its members.

Sentient computing

Andy Hopper, The Royal Society Clifford Paterson Lecture, 1999 - Sentient Computing.

Sir William Bowman, 1st Baronet

He presented his findings in 1842 in his paper "On the Structure and Use of the Malpighian Bodies of the Kidney" to the Royal Society and was awarded the Royal Medal.

Stylidium inaequipetalum

It was first described by John McConnell Black in a 1938 issue of the Transactions of the Royal Society of South Australia.

The British Museum Library: a Short History and Survey

The Foundation – the Act of 1753 and the opening – Origins of the Foundation Collections – The Suppression of the Monasteries : Archbishop Parker and the Antiquaries – Robert Cotton, the Harleys and the Old Royal Library – The Royal Society and the Scientists : Arundel – The Movement towards a Public Library The Establishment of the Museum.

Thomas Croft

Thomas Crofts, British bibliophile, Anglican priest, Fellow of the Royal Society and European traveller

Thomas Herbert

Thomas Herbert, 8th Earl of Pembroke (c. 1656–1733), statesman and President of the Royal Society, MP for Wilton 1679–1683

Thomas Howard, 21st Earl of Arundel

The Royal Society sold its portion to the British Museum in 1831, and they now form the Arundel manuscripts within the British Library.

Timeline of women in mathematics worldwide

1964: Mary Cartwright became the first woman to win the Sylvester Medal of the Royal Society of London, which is given every three years since 1901 for the encouragement of mathematical research, without regard to nationality.

William Bate

William Bate Hardy (1864–1934), British biologist and Fellow of the Royal Society

William Brinton

He translated Gabriel Valentin's 'Text Book of Physiology' from the German in 1853; wrote a short treatise 'On the Medical Selection of Lives for Assurance' in 1856, and in 1861 'On Food and its Digestion, being an Introduction to Dietetics,' besides six articles in Robert Bentley Todd's Cyclopædia of Anatomy and Physiology, and some papers read before the Royal Society.

William George Horner

His contribution to approximation theory is honoured in the designation Horner's method, in particular respect of a paper in Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London for 1819.

Željko Reiner

He is a Fellow of the Royal Society, Fellow of the European Society of Cardiology and Fellow of the American College of Cardiology.