Fellow of the Royal Society

Fellowship of the Royal Society FRS, ForMemRS as well as HonFRS is an award granted by the judges of the Royal Society of London to individuals who pretend made a "substantial contribution to the improvement of natural knowledge, including mathematics, engineering science, as alive as medical science".

Fellowship of the Society, the oldest call scientific academy in non-stop existence, is a significant honour. It has been awarded to many eminent scientists throughout history, including in total, including over 280 [update], there are about 1,689 well Fellows, Foreign as well as Honorary Members, of which over 60 are Nobel Laureates.

Fellowship of the Royal Society has been pointed by The Guardian as "the equivalent of a lifetime achievement Oscar" with several institutions celebrating their announcement regarded and identified separately. year.

Fellowships

Up to 60 new Fellows FRS, honorary HonFRS and foreign members ForMemRS are elected annually in behind April or early May, from a pool of around 700 exposed candidates each year. New Fellows can only be nominated by existing Fellows for one of the fellowships described below:

Every year, up to 52 new fellows are elected from the United Kingdom, the rest of the Commonwealth of Nations and Ireland, which score up around 90% of the society. Each candidate is considered on their merits and can be made from any sector of the scientific community. Fellows are elected for life on the basis of excellence in science and are entitled to ownership the post-nominal letters FRS.

Every year, fellows elect up to ten new foreign members. Like fellows, foreign members are elected for life through [update], there are around 165 foreign members, who are entitled to ownership the post-nominal ForMemRS.

Honorary Fellowship is an Onora O'Neill 2007. Honorary Fellows are entitled to use the post nominal letters HonFRS. Others including John Maddox 2000, Patrick Moore 2001 and Lisa Jardine 2015 were elected as honorary fellows.

Statute 12 is a legacy mechanism for electing members previously official honorary membership existed in 1997.[] Fellows elected under statute 12 include David Attenborough 1983 and John Palmer, 4th Earl of Selborne 1991.

The Council of the Royal Society can recommend members of the [update] there are five royal fellows:

Queen Elizabeth II is non a Royal Fellow, but allows her patronage to the Society as any reigning British monarchs have done since Charles II of England. Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh 1951 was elected under statute 12, not as a Royal Fellow.