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Fellows of the Royal Society

Fellowship of the Royal Society (FRS, ForMemRS and HonFRS) is an award granted by the judges of the Royal Society of London to individuals who have made a "substantial contribution to the improvement of natural knowledge, including mathematics, engineering science, and medical science".Fellowship of the Society, the oldest known scientific academy in continuous existence, is a significant honour. It has been awarded to many eminent scientists throughout history, including Isaac Newton (1672), Michael Faraday (1824), Charles Darwin (1839), Ernest Rutherford (1903), Srinivasa Ramanujan (1918), Albert Einstein (1921), Paul Dirac (1930), Winston Churchill (1941), Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar (1944), Dorothy Hodgkin (1947), Alan Turing (1951), Lise Meitner (1955) and Francis Crick (1959).

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Society of London, Fellows of the Royal Geographical Society, Fellows of the Zoological Society of London 19th-century British chemists 19th-century British writers 19th-century English mathematicians 19th-century English politicians 19th-century English scientists 20th-century British chemists, British biophysicists, British crystallographers 20th-century British physicists, Members of the Pontifical Academy of Sciences 20th-century British scientists Academics of King's College London Academics of the London School of Economics, British philosophers of science Alumni of Christ's College, Cambridge Alumni of Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge Botanical nomenclature British MPs 1774–1780 British atheism activists British biochemists British botanical illustrators British critics of Christianity British deists British philosophers of culture, English pacifists British philosophers of logic British philosophers of religion British scientific instrument makers British scientists with 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Alan Turing

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the ideas and life of the founder of computer science - whose work helped crack enemy codes in WW2 - and his exploration of artificial intelligence.

15 October 2020

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Featuring: Leslie Ann Goldberg, Simon Schaffer, Andrew Hodges

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Science People convicted for homosexuality in the United Kingdom, People who have received posthumous pardons English inventors LGBTQ mathematicians, LGBTQ philosophers Computer designers Theoretical biologists 20th-century English philosophers Gay scientists Suicides by cyanide poisoning 20th-century atheists English people of Scottish descent Castrated people Gay academics English people of Irish descent English logicians 20th-century English LGBTQ people 20th-century English mathematicians Fellows of the Royal Society English atheists 20th century Computation Mathematics
Alfred Russel Wallace

Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss the Victorian pioneer of evolutionary theory Alfred Russel Wallace.

21 March 2013

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Featuring: Steve Jones, George Beccaloni, Ted Benton

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History Recipients of the Copley Medal British botanical illustrators 19th-century English scientists 20th-century British biologists 19th-century British biologists, 19th-century English naturalists, British evolutionary biologists, Fellows of the Linnean Society of London, Fellows of the Royal Geographical Society, Fellows of the Zoological Society of London Georgists English activists Members of the Order of Merit English people of Scottish descent English socialists 20th-century English non-fiction writers People from Monmouthshire Royal Medal winners Victorian writers Fellows of the Royal Society 19th-century British writers British deists Charles Darwin 19th century 20th century Animals
Benjamin Disraeli

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss one of the most famous politicians of the Victorian age, who broadened his fame and spread his ideas through popular novels.

19 September 2024

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Featuring: Lawrence Goldman, Emily Jones, Daisy Hay

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History Knights of the Garter People of the Victorian era English male novelists Rectors of the University of Glasgow 19th-century English dramatists and playwrights UK MPs 1865–1868 English biographers Victorian era 19th-century English poets English Anglicans 19th-century English novelists Victorian novelists Writers from the London Borough of Camden Lords Privy Seal 19th-century Anglicans Members of the Privy Council of the United Kingdom English non-fiction writers 19th-century English politicians Fellows of the Royal Society 19th century
Benjamin Franklin

Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss the life and work of the scientist, writer, printer, diplomat and American founding father Benjamin Franklin.

1 March 2012

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Featuring: Simon Middleton, Simon Newman, Patricia Fara

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Culture Hall of Fame for Great Americans inductees People associated with electricity American philosophers of education Humor researchers Activists for African-American civil rights American philosophers of culture Creators of writing systems Writers about religion and science American slave owners Rhetoric theorists Recreational cryptographers, Writers from Boston, Writers from Philadelphia American male non-fiction writers Independent scientists Independent scholars American people of English descent American deists Writers about activism and social change Simple living advocates American political philosophers 18th-century American politicians, American Freemasons, Signers of the United States Constitution Philosophy writers American autobiographers American philosophers of religion Honorary members of the Saint Petersburg Academy of Sciences Philosophers of technology Masonic grand masters Fellows of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences Theorists on Western civilization Philosophers of science Philosophers of history Recipients of the Copley Medal Political activists from Pennsylvania Philosophers from Massachusetts 18th-century American writers, Founding Fathers of the United States, People of the American Enlightenment American male journalists Social philosophers Members of the American Philosophical Society 18th-century pseudonymous writers Aphorists Age of Enlightenment Philosophers of literature Fellows of the Royal Society 18th century America
Bertrand Russell

Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss the influential 20th-century British thinker Bertrand Russell, widely regarded as one of the founders of Analytical philosophy.

6 December 2012

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Featuring: A. C. Grayling, Mike Beaney, Hilary Greaves

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Philosophy British free speech activists British historians of philosophy English logicians Universal basic income writers European democratic socialists Metaphysics writers Members of the Order of Merit English anti-fascists 19th-century atheists British philosophers of education Empiricists English humanists Free love advocates Georgists British critics of religions English Nobel laureates Nobel laureates in Literature Theorists on Western civilization British political philosophers Philosophers of social science English people of Scottish descent English socialists English male non-fiction writers Consequentialists Fellows of the Royal Society Linguistic turn Philosophers of sexuality Rhetoric theorists Metaphilosophers Philosophers of love English political philosophers Critics of work and the work ethic English people of Welsh descent 20th-century atheists 20th-century English mathematicians Presidents of the Aristotelian Society Utilitarians British atheism activists Writers about communism Logicians 19th-century English essayists Secular humanists Philosophers of economics Intellectual historians, University of Chicago faculty Ontologists English sceptics Freethought writers Critics of the Catholic Church 19th-century English philosophers British critics of Christianity People from Monmouthshire Aristotelian philosophers Jerusalem Prize recipients Philosophers of law English prisoners and detainees British philosophers of language Set theorists Philosophers of technology British consciousness researchers and theorists Philosophers of mathematics British philosophers of mind 20th-century English philosophers 19th-century English mathematicians Anti-nationalists Philosophers of literature English agnostics British philosophers of culture, English pacifists Writers about globalization Writers about religion and science Fellows of Trinity College, Cambridge English essayists Analytic philosophers Academics of the London School of Economics, British philosophers of science Writers about activism and social change Alumni of Trinity College, Cambridge Philosophers of history British philosophers of religion British ethicists Atheist philosophers University of California, Los Angeles faculty British philosophers of logic English political writers 19th century 20th century Economics Language Mathematics
Booth's Life and Labour Survey

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Charles Booth's ambitious project to discover how many people in late Victorian London were living in poverty, and understand why

10 June 2021

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Featuring: Emma Griffin, Sarah Wise, Lawrence Goldman

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History English reformers English philanthropists British social reformers English male non-fiction writers 19th-century British philanthropists Members of the Privy Council of the United Kingdom Fellows of the Royal Society English non-fiction writers 19th century
Brunel

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Isambard Kingdom Brunel, the Victorian engineer responsible for bridges, tunnels and railways still in use today.

13 November 2014

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Featuring: Julia Elton, Ben Marsden, Crosbie Smith

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History 19th-century British inventors Lycée Henri-IV alumni 19th-century English architects English civil engineers, People of the Industrial Revolution English people of French descent Fellows of the Royal Society Deaths from nephritis 19th century
Carl Friedrich Gauss

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the ideas of Gauss, 'prince of mathematicians', including those on number theory, geometry, probability theory, astronomy and electromagnetism.

30 November 2017

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Featuring: Marcus du Sautoy, Colva Roney-Dougal, Nick Evans

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Science Recipients of the Copley Medal Members of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences University of Göttingen alumni Members of the Bavarian Academy of Sciences Academic staff of the University of Göttingen Honorary members of the Saint Petersburg Academy of Sciences 18th-century German astronomers Members of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences German Lutherans Members of the Göttingen Academy of Sciences and Humanities Corresponding members of the Saint Petersburg Academy of Sciences Optical physicists Recipients of the Pour le Mérite (civil class)Fellows of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences Mental calculators Fellows of the Royal Society Linear algebraists 18th century Astronomy Mathematics
Darwin: On the Origins of Charles Darwin

Melvyn Bragg presents a series about the life and work of Charles Darwin. Darwin's early life and time at Cambridge, where his interests shifted from religion to natural science.

5 January 2009

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Featuring: Jim Moore, Steve Jones, David Norman, Colin Higgins

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Science English agnostics Human evolution Royal Medal winners Charles Darwin Independent scientists English sceptics English Anglicans 19th-century British biologists, 19th-century English naturalists, British evolutionary biologists, Fellows of the Linnean Society of London, Fellows of the Royal Geographical Society, Fellows of the Zoological Society of London Theoretical biologists Members of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences Alumni of the University of Edinburgh Circumnavigators of the globe Members of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences Utilitarians Members of the Lincean Academy English abolitionists 19th-century Anglicans Recipients of the Copley Medal Alumni of Christ's College, Cambridge 19th-century English writers Members of the American Philosophical Society English travel writers Recipients of the Pour le Mérite (civil class)Fellows of the Royal Society Burials at Westminster Abbey Deaths from coronary thrombosis 19th century Animals
Dorothy Hodgkin

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the work, ideas and life of the woman who won the 1964 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for her work on the structures of vitamin B12 and penicillin.

3 October 2019

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Featuring: Georgina Ferry, Judith Howard, Patricia Fara

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Science Women Nobel laureates Royal Medal winners Members of the Order of Merit Alumni of Somerville College, Oxford Foreign members of the USSR Academy of Sciences 20th-century British biologists 20th-century British chemists, British biophysicists, British crystallographers Recipients of the Austrian Decoration for Science and Art Recipients of the Dalton Medal English Nobel laureates Fellows of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences British scientists with disabilities Recipients of the Copley Medal British Nobel laureates Foreign associates of the National Academy of Sciences Fellows of Somerville College, Oxford Alumni of Newnham College, Cambridge Fellows of the Royal Society British biochemists Nobel laureates in Chemistry 20th century
Edward Gibbon

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the life and ideas of the writer of The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, one of the most celebrated works of its kind.

17 June 2021

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Featuring: David Womersley, Charlotte Roberts, Karen O'Brien

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Culture 18th-century English male writers British male essayists English essayists 18th-century English non-fiction writers 18th-century English historians British MPs 1780–1784, Members of the Parliament of Great Britain for English constituencies British MPs 1774–1780 Alumni of Magdalen College, Oxford Freemasons of the Premier Grand Lodge of England English male non-fiction writers British critics of religions English rhetoricians Rhetoric theorists Irony theorists People educated at Westminster School, London Fellows of the Royal Society English Protestants Theorists on Western civilization 18th century
John Dalton

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss scientist John Dalton, who pioneered the development of atomic theory and carried out research into meteorology and colour blindness.

27 October 2016

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Featuring: Jim Bennett, Aileen Fyfe, James Sumner

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History 19th-century British chemists History of Greater Manchester Royal Medal winners Fellows of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences English Quakers Fellows of the Royal Society 19th-century British physicists 19th century
Linnaeus

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the pioneering 18th century Swedish botanist, who devised a method of naming species and a new system for classifying plants and animals.

20 April 2023

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Featuring: Staffan Müller-Wille, Stella Sandford, Steve Jones

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Science Members of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences 18th-century lexicographers, 18th-century writers in Latin Botanical nomenclature Fellows of the Royal Society Members of the American Philosophical Society Members of the French Academy of Sciences Members of the Prussian Academy of Sciences Taxon authorities of Hypericum species 18th century
Maxwell

Melvyn Bragg discusses the life and work of the often overlooked 19th century Scottish scientist, and his enormous contribution to the creation of the technological age in which we live.

2 October 2003

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Featuring: Simon Schaffer, Peter Harman, Joanna Haigh

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Science People associated with electricity Deaths from stomach cancer in England Cavendish Professors of Physics Alumni of Trinity College, Cambridge Alumni of the University of Edinburgh Optical physicists Academics of King's College London Color scientists Fellows of the Royal Society 19th-century British physicists British theoretical physicists, Mathematical physicists Magneticians 19th century Mathematics
Michael Faraday

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Michael Faraday, the most famous British scientist of the 19th century.

24 December 2015

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Featuring: Geoffrey Cantor, Laura Herz, Frank James

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Science People associated with electricity Writers about religion and science Royal Medal winners English Protestants 19th-century British chemists Members of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences Optical physicists Experimental physicists Members of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences English inventors 19th-century English scientists Honorary members of the Saint Petersburg Academy of Sciences Fellows of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences Recipients of the Copley Medal Burials at Highgate Cemetery Foreign associates of the National Academy of Sciences Members of the French Academy of Sciences Recipients of the Pour le Mérite (civil class)English physicists Fellows of the Royal Society 19th-century British physicists Magneticians 19th century
Montesquieu

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the ideas of the French political philosopher (1689-1755) whose work on liberty and republicanism, banned at home, influenced the US constitution.

14 June 2018

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Featuring: Richard Bourke, Rachel Hammersley, Richard Whatmore

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History French Roman Catholics Members of the Académie Française Philosophers of law Enlightenment philosophers Members of the Prussian Academy of Sciences 18th-century French philosophers French philosophers of history Contributors to the Encyclopédie (1751–1772)18th-century French male writers French political writers French political philosophers Fellows of the Royal Society 17th century 18th century France
Paul Dirac

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the Bristolian theoretical physicist, ranked alongside Einstein by his peers, who won a Nobel for his work on quantum mechanics.

5 March 2020

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Featuring: Graham Farmelo, Valerie Gibson, David Berman

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Science English agnostics Academic staff of the University of Göttingen 20th-century British physicists, Members of the Pontifical Academy of Sciences English emigrants to the United States Alumni of the University of Bristol Royal Medal winners Members of the Order of Merit Nobel laureates in Physics 20th-century English mathematicians Foreign members of the USSR Academy of Sciences British theoretical physicists, Mathematical physicists Winners of the Max Planck Medal English Nobel laureates Alumni of St John's College, Cambridge Recipients of the Copley Medal British Nobel laureates Foreign associates of the National Academy of Sciences Institute for Advanced Study visiting scholars Members of the American Philosophical Society Fellows of the Royal Society 20th century Mathematics
Pierre-Simon Laplace

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the great French mathematician who tackled questions on the stability of the Solar System and planet rotation and devised the basis for metrication

8 April 2021

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Featuring: Marcus du Sautoy, Timothy Gowers, Colva Roney-Dougal

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History Members of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences Members of the Académie Française French physicists Grand Officers of the Legion of Honour Determinists Linear algebraists 18th-century French mathematicians Members of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences French fluid dynamicists, French mathematicians, French probability theorists Members of the French Academy of Sciences Fellows of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences French deists Fellows of the Royal Society French agnostics 18th century France Mathematics
Pitt Rivers

Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss the work of the Victorian anthropologist and archaeologist Augustus Pitt-Rivers.

28 February 2013

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Featuring: Adam Kuper, Richard Bradley, Dan Hicks

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Science Fellows of the Society of Antiquaries of London, Museum founders Fellows of the Royal Society 19th-century British philanthropists 19th century
Sir John Soane

Melvyn Bragg and guests explore the life and work of John Soane, architect of the old Bank of England and collector of the antiquities displayed in his home which became a museum.

6 February 2025

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Featuring: Frances Sands, Frank Salmon, Gillian Darley

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Culture Knights Bachelor 19th-century English architects Fellows of the Society of Antiquaries of London, Museum founders Burials at St Pancras Old Church Freemasons of the Premier Grand Lodge of England Fellows of the Royal Society 17th-century English architects 17th century 19th century
The Needham Question

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the Needham Question, which asks why China’s medieval technological advancement was overtaken by that of a relative backwater called Europe.

19 October 2006

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Featuring: Chris Cullen, Tim Barrett, Frances Wood

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Science 20th-century British scientists Foreign associates of the National Academy of Sciences Alumni of Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge Members of the Order of the Companions of Honour Fellows of the British Academy British biochemists Fellows of the Royal Society 20th century
Voyages of James Cook

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the science behind Capt James Cook's three voyages of discovery, from 1768 to 1779, one of over a thousand ideas suggested by listeners.

3 December 2015

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Featuring: Simon Schaffer, Rebekah Higgitt, Sophie Forgan

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History Recipients of the Copley Medal Persons of National Historic Significance (Canada)English people of Scottish descent Circumnavigators of the globe Maritime writers 18th-century English people Fellows of the Royal Society 18th century
William and Caroline Herschel

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the pioneering brother and sister who, between them, discovered Uranus, comets, double stars and infrared light at the end of the 18th century.

11 November 2021

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Featuring: Monica Grady, Carolin Crawford, Jim Bennett

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Science Recipients of the Copley Medal Members of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences Classical-period composers German male classical composers 19th-century German male musicians 18th-century classical composers Honorary members of the Saint Petersburg Academy of Sciences 18th-century German astronomers German Lutherans German classical composers 18th-century keyboardists British scientific instrument makers Fellows of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences 18th-century German composers Fellows of the Royal Society 18th century 19th century Astronomy Germany Music