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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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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 disabilities British theoretical physicists, Mathematical physicists Cavendish Professors of Physics Circumnavigators of the globe Classical-period composers Computer designers Creators of writing systems Deaths from nephritis Deaths from stomach cancer in England English Protestants English Quakers English anti-fascists English biographers English civil engineers, People of the Industrial Revolution English humanists English people of French descent English prisoners and detainees English reformers English rhetoricians English sceptics Fellows of the Society of Antiquaries of London, Museum founders Foreign members of the USSR Academy of Sciences Free love advocates French agnostics French fluid dynamicists, French mathematicians, French probability theorists French political writers Gay academics Gay scientists German male classical composers Grand Officers of the Legion of Honour History of Greater Manchester Independent scholars Intellectual historians, University of Chicago faculty LGBTQ mathematicians, LGBTQ philosophers Linear algebraists Lords Privy Seal Magneticians Maritime writers Masonic grand masters Members of the Lincean Academy Members of the Order of the Companions of Honour Members of the Privy Council of the United Kingdom People convicted for homosexuality in the United Kingdom, People who have received posthumous pardons People from Monmouthshire People of the Victorian era Persons of National Historic Significance (Canada)Philosophers from Massachusetts Political activists from Pennsylvania Recipients of the Dalton Medal Recreational cryptographers, Writers from Boston, Writers from Philadelphia Rectors of the University of Glasgow Secular humanists Set theorists Suicides by cyanide poisoning Taxon authorities of Hypericum species Theoretical biologists UK MPs 1865–1868 Universal basic income writers University of California, Los Angeles faculty Women Nobel laureates Writers about communism

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 Theoretical biologists English atheists 20th-century English mathematicians LGBTQ mathematicians, LGBTQ philosophers 20th-century English philosophers Fellows of the Royal Society 20th-century atheists English logicians Suicides by cyanide poisoning Gay scientists English inventors Castrated people 20th-century English LGBTQ people English people of Scottish descent English people of Irish descent People convicted for homosexuality in the United Kingdom, People who have received posthumous pardons Gay academics Computer designers
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 20th-century British biologists British botanical illustrators Members of the Order of Merit 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 Fellows of the Royal Society Victorian writers English activists British deists People from Monmouthshire 19th-century British writers English socialists 19th-century English scientists Charles Darwin English people of Scottish descent Georgists 20th-century English non-fiction writers Royal Medal winners Recipients of the Copley Medal
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 Fellows of the Royal Society English Anglicans Victorian era Victorian novelists 19th-century English novelists 19th-century Anglicans English male novelists UK MPs 1865–1868 Members of the Privy Council of the United Kingdom Knights of the Garter Rectors of the University of Glasgow English biographers 19th-century English dramatists and playwrights Lords Privy Seal 19th-century English poets 19th-century English politicians Writers from the London Borough of Camden English non-fiction writers People of the Victorian era
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 Masonic grand masters Fellows of the Royal Society Honorary members of the Saint Petersburg Academy of Sciences Independent scholars American male non-fiction writers Theorists on Western civilization Philosophers of literature American deists Age of Enlightenment Social philosophers Philosophy writers Philosophers of technology American political philosophers Activists for African-American civil rights Writers about religion and science Political activists from Pennsylvania Aphorists Recipients of the Copley Medal Rhetoric theorists Fellows of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences 18th-century pseudonymous writers American people of English descent American philosophers of culture Humor researchers American male journalists Recreational cryptographers, Writers from Boston, Writers from Philadelphia Hall of Fame for Great Americans inductees American philosophers of religion 18th-century American politicians, American Freemasons, Signers of the United States Constitution Philosophers from Massachusetts Members of the American Philosophical Society People associated with electricity Creators of writing systems Writers about activism and social change Philosophers of science American slave owners Philosophers of history American autobiographers 18th-century American writers, Founding Fathers of the United States, People of the American Enlightenment Simple living advocates Independent scientists American philosophers of education
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 Nobel laureates in Literature British philosophers of language Georgists English political writers Free love advocates Set theorists Aristotelian philosophers Writers about religion and science Jerusalem Prize recipients Fellows of Trinity College, Cambridge English logicians Philosophers of mathematics British historians of philosophy Empiricists Ontologists Metaphysics writers British political philosophers Fellows of the Royal Society Metaphilosophers Theorists on Western civilization British ethicists Philosophers of literature British free speech activists 20th-century English philosophers Analytic philosophers English humanists Rhetoric theorists Atheist philosophers English political philosophers English anti-fascists English people of Scottish descent Philosophers of history English agnostics 20th-century atheists Consequentialists English socialists Philosophers of social science British philosophers of religion Presidents of the Aristotelian Society Logicians Philosophers of law Philosophers of sexuality 19th-century English mathematicians Critics of work and the work ethic Secular humanists Philosophers of technology Philosophers of economics Writers about globalization British philosophers of education British philosophers of culture, English pacifists British philosophers of logic Critics of the Catholic Church People from Monmouthshire Alumni of Trinity College, Cambridge Linguistic turn Philosophers of love European democratic socialists British consciousness researchers and theorists Writers about activism and social change English Nobel laureates Members of the Order of Merit English prisoners and detainees Utilitarians Intellectual historians, University of Chicago faculty English sceptics British critics of Christianity English people of Welsh descent Universal basic income writers British philosophers of mind 19th-century English philosophers British critics of religions Academics of the London School of Economics, British philosophers of science 19th-century atheists University of California, Los Angeles faculty Anti-nationalists 20th-century English mathematicians English essayists Freethought writers British atheism activists Writers about communism 19th-century English essayists English male non-fiction writers
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 19th-century British philanthropists English reformers English philanthropists Fellows of the Royal Society English male non-fiction writers English non-fiction writers Members of the Privy Council of the United Kingdom British social reformers
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 Lycée Henri-IV alumni English people of French descent Fellows of the Royal Society English civil engineers, People of the Industrial Revolution 19th-century British inventors Deaths from nephritis 19th-century English architects
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 Fellows of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences Linear algebraists Members of the Göttingen Academy of Sciences and Humanities Fellows of the Royal Society Members of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences University of Göttingen alumni Academic staff of the University of Göttingen 18th-century German astronomers Honorary members of the Saint Petersburg Academy of Sciences Mental calculators German Lutherans Members of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences Corresponding members of the Saint Petersburg Academy of Sciences Optical physicists Members of the Bavarian Academy of Sciences Recipients of the Copley Medal Recipients of the Pour le Mérite (civil class)
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 travel writers Theoretical biologists Fellows of the Royal Society Members of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences English Anglicans Utilitarians English abolitionists 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 Burials at Westminster Abbey English sceptics 19th-century Anglicans Recipients of the Copley Medal Alumni of Christ's College, Cambridge English agnostics Charles Darwin Alumni of the University of Edinburgh 19th-century English writers Circumnavigators of the globe Recipients of the Pour le Mérite (civil class)Members of the American Philosophical Society Deaths from coronary thrombosis Members of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences Members of the Lincean Academy Independent scientists Human evolution Royal Medal winners
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 Members of the Order of Merit Fellows of the Royal Society Foreign associates of the National Academy of Sciences Fellows of Somerville College, Oxford Alumni of Newnham College, Cambridge British biochemists Recipients of the Austrian Decoration for Science and Art Nobel laureates in Chemistry Recipients of the Copley Medal Fellows of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences Women Nobel laureates Alumni of Somerville College, Oxford British Nobel laureates Recipients of the Dalton Medal 20th-century British biologists Foreign members of the USSR Academy of Sciences English Nobel laureates 20th-century British chemists, British biophysicists, British crystallographers British scientists with disabilities Royal Medal winners
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 English rhetoricians Fellows of the Royal Society English essayists Alumni of Magdalen College, Oxford British MPs 1774–1780 British critics of religions English Protestants English male non-fiction writers 18th-century English historians People educated at Westminster School, London British MPs 1780–1784, Members of the Parliament of Great Britain for English constituencies Freemasons of the Premier Grand Lodge of England 18th-century English non-fiction writers Theorists on Western civilization 18th-century English male writers Irony theorists Rhetoric theorists British male essayists
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 Fellows of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences 19th-century British chemists History of Greater Manchester Fellows of the Royal Society 19th-century British physicists Royal Medal winners English Quakers
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 Taxon authorities of Hypericum species 18th-century lexicographers, 18th-century writers in Latin Members of the Prussian Academy of Sciences Fellows of the Royal Society Members of the American Philosophical Society Botanical nomenclature Members of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences Members of the French Academy of Sciences
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 Academics of King's College London Deaths from stomach cancer in England British theoretical physicists, Mathematical physicists Fellows of the Royal Society People associated with electricity Color scientists Cavendish Professors of Physics Magneticians Alumni of the University of Edinburgh Optical physicists Alumni of Trinity College, Cambridge 19th-century British physicists
Michael Faraday

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

25 December 2015

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Featuring: Geoffrey Cantor, Laura Herz, Frank James

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Science Fellows of the Royal Society Members of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences Honorary members of the Saint Petersburg Academy of Sciences Foreign associates of the National Academy of Sciences Magneticians Optical physicists 19th-century British physicists English physicists 19th-century English scientists Experimental physicists Writers about religion and science Recipients of the Copley Medal Fellows of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences 19th-century British chemists English Protestants Members of the French Academy of Sciences Recipients of the Pour le Mérite (civil class)People associated with electricity English inventors Burials at Highgate Cemetery Members of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences Royal Medal winners
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 Members of the Prussian Academy of Sciences Philosophers of law 18th-century French philosophers Fellows of the Royal Society French Roman Catholics Contributors to the Encyclopédie (1751–1772)Enlightenment philosophers Members of the Académie Française French political writers French philosophers of history French political philosophers 18th-century French male writers
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 Members of the Order of Merit British theoretical physicists, Mathematical physicists Fellows of the Royal Society Alumni of St John's College, Cambridge Foreign associates of the National Academy of Sciences English emigrants to the United States Nobel laureates in Physics Recipients of the Copley Medal Institute for Advanced Study visiting scholars English agnostics 20th-century British physicists, Members of the Pontifical Academy of Sciences British Nobel laureates Foreign members of the USSR Academy of Sciences 20th-century English mathematicians Academic staff of the University of Göttingen Members of the American Philosophical Society Winners of the Max Planck Medal English Nobel laureates Royal Medal winners
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 Fellows of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences French physicists Linear algebraists Fellows of the Royal Society Grand Officers of the Legion of Honour Members of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences French agnostics French fluid dynamicists, French mathematicians, French probability theorists Members of the Académie Française 18th-century French mathematicians Members of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences Members of the French Academy of Sciences French deists Determinists
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 Royal Society Fellows of the Society of Antiquaries of London, Museum founders 19th-century British philanthropists
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.

06 February 2025

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Featuring: Frances Sands, Frank Salmon, Gillian Darley

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Culture Knights Bachelor Burials at St Pancras Old Church Fellows of the Royal Society 17th-century English architects Fellows of the Society of Antiquaries of London, Museum founders Freemasons of the Premier Grand Lodge of England 19th-century English architects
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 British biochemists Fellows of the Royal Society Members of the Order of the Companions of Honour Alumni of Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge Foreign associates of the National Academy of Sciences 20th-century British scientists Fellows of the British Academy
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 Fellows of the Royal Society Persons of National Historic Significance (Canada)English people of Scottish descent Maritime writers 18th-century English people Circumnavigators of the globe Recipients of the Copley Medal
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 Fellows of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences 18th-century German composers Fellows of the Royal Society British scientific instrument makers German male classical composers Classical-period composers 18th-century German astronomers 19th-century German male musicians Honorary members of the Saint Petersburg Academy of Sciences German classical composers German Lutherans Members of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences 18th-century classical composers 18th-century keyboardists Recipients of the Copley Medal