Promoting excellence in science 2017
New Fellows 2017 50 new Fellows, 10 new Foreign Members and one new Honorary Fellow were elected to the Society in May 2017 for their exceptional contributions to science. Individuals were elected from across the UK and Ireland, including Bristol, Aberdeen, Lancaster, Reading and Swansea, along with those from international institutions in Japan and the USA. New Fellows were admitted in July 2017 at the Admissions Ceremony, during which they signed the Charter Book. Professor Yves-Alain Barde Professor Tony Bell Professor Keith Beven Professor Wendy Bickmore FMedSci Professor Christopher Bishop FREng Professor the Baroness Brown of Cambridge DBE FREng Professor Neil Burgess FMedSci Professor Krishna Chatterjee FMedSci Professor James Durrant Mr Warren East CBE FREng Professor Tim Elliott Professor Anne Ferguson- Smith FMedSci Professor Jonathan Gregory Professor Mark Gross Professor Roy Harrison OBE
Professor Gabriele Hegerl Professor Edward Holmes Professor Richard Houlston FMedSci Professor Yvonne Jones FMedSci Professor Subhash Khot Professor Stafford Lightman Professor Yadvinder Malhi Dr Andrew McKenzie FMedSci Professor Gerard Milburn Professor Anne Neville OBE FREng Professor Alison Noble OBE FREng Professor Andrew Orr-Ewing Professor David Owen FMedSci Professor Lawrence Paulson Professor Josephine Pemberton Professor Sandu Popescu Professor Sally Price Professor Anne Ridley FMedSci Professor David Rubinsztein FMedSci Dr Gavin Salam
Professor Sir Nigel Shadbolt Kt FREng Professor Angus Silver Professor Gordon Slade Professor Peter Smith Professor Nicola Spaldin Dr Jonathan Stoye Professor John Sutherland Professor Roy Taylor Professor Jennifer Thomas CBE Dr Patrick Vallance FMedSci Professor Susanne Von Caemmerer Professor Hugh Watkins FMedSci Dr Roger Williams FMedSci Professor Kenneth Wolfe Professor Andrew Woods
New Foreign Members 2017 Dr Max Cooper ForMemRS Professor Whitfield Diffie ForMemRS Professor Robert Grubbs ForMemRS Professor Hideo Hosono ForMemRS Professor Marcia McNutt ForMemRS Professor Ginés Morata ForMemRS Professor Robert Ritchie FREng ForMemRS Professor Thomas Sudhof ForMemRS Professor David Tilman ForMemRS Professor Susan Wessler ForMemRS New Honorary Fellow 2017 Lord David Neuberger PC
Medals and Awards 2017/18 The Society s medals, awards and prize lectures provide a mechanism for the recognition and celebration of excellence within all aspects of science. The public recognition of leading scientists serves to inspire others to continue the advancement of science. Copley Medal Sir Andrew Wiles KBE Royal Medal Dr Paul Corkum Royal Medal Professor Peter Grant and Professor Rosemary Grant Royal Medal Professor Melvyn Greaves FMedSci Davy Medal Professor Matthew Rosseinsky Hughes Medal Professor Peter Bruce Buchanan Medal Sir Peter Ratcliffe FMedSci Gabor Medal Professor Richard Durbin Croonian Medal Professor Jennifer Doudna ForMemRS Bakerian Medal Professor Susan Solomon ForMemRS Michael Faraday Medal Professor Mark Miodownik Rosalind Franklin Award Professor Essi Viding Francis Crick Medal Dr Miratul Muqit Leeuwenhoek Medal Professor Sarah Cleaveland OBE
Africa Award Dr Alassane Dicko Clifford Paterson Medal Professor Timothy Leighton FREng Wilkins-Bernal-Medawar Medal Professor Michela Massimi Milner Medal Professor Marta Kwiatkowska
The Royal Society is a self-governing Fellowship of many of the world s most distinguished scientists drawn from all areas of science, engineering, and medicine. The Society s fundamental purpose, as it has been since its foundation in 1660, is to recognise, promote, and support excellence in science and to encourage the development and use of science for the benefit of humanity. The Society s strategic priorities emphasise its commitment to the highest quality science, to curiosity-driven research, and to the development and use of science for the benefit of society. These priorities are: Promoting excellence in science Supporting international scientific collaboration Demonstrating the importance of science to everyone. For further information The Royal Society 6 9 Carlton House Terrace London SW1Y 5AG T +44 20 7451 2500 W royalsociety.org Registered Charity No 207043 September 2018 DES5700_1