The President of the Royal Society (PRS) is the elected head of the Royal Society of London. The Royal Society of London for the Improvement of Natural Knowledge, known simply as The Royal Society, is a Learned society for science that was founded in 1660 London ( ˈlʌndən is the capital and largest urban area in the United Kingdom. The position is now awarded to a member of the scientific community of the British Commonwealth for a period of five years, and is one of the highest honours that can be bestowed upon a scientist.

The changeover of Presidents occurs on the Royal Society Anniversary Day, the weekday on or nearest to 30 November, following the departing President's Anniversary Address. Events 1700 - Battle of Narva — A Swedish army of 8500 men under Charles XII defeats ^[1]

The current President is The Lord Rees of Ludlow. Martin John Rees Baron Rees of Ludlow, OM, PRS (born 23 June 1942 in York) is an English cosmologist

Presidents of the Royal Society

References

1. ^ The Role of President of the Royal Society. Sir Robert Moray FRS ( 10 March 1609 – 4 July 1673) was a Scottish soldier freemason and natural philosopher William Brouncker 2nd Viscount Brouncker, FRS (1620 – 5 April 1684) was an English Mathematician. See Joseph Williamson (philanthropist for the Joseph Williamson famous for creating seemingly pointless tunnels in Liverpool, England) Sir Christopher Wren ( 20 October 1632 &ndash 25 February 1723) was a 17th century English Designer, Astronomer For other uses see John Hoskins Sir John Hoskyns 2nd Baronet ( 23 July 1634 - 12 September 1705 was an Sir Cyril Wyche, FRS, DCL, MA, BA (1632 &ndash ?1707 was an English lawyer and politician Samuel Pepys, FRS (23 February 1633 – 26 May 1703 was an English naval administrator and Member of Parliament, who is now most famous for John Vaughan 3rd Earl of Carbery FRS (baptised 8 July 1639 – 12 January 1713) was Governor of Jamaica between 1675–1678 Thomas Herbert 8th Earl of Pembroke and 5th Earl of Montgomery, KG, PC, FRS (c Charles Montagu 1st Earl of Halifax, KG, PC, FRS ( 16 April 1661 &ndash 19 May 1715) was an English John Somers 1st Baron Somers, PC, FRS ( 4 March 1651 &ndash 26 April 1716) was Lord High Chancellor of England Sir Isaac Newton, FRS (ˈnjuːtən 4 January 1643 31 March 1727) Biography Early years See also Isaac Newton's early life and achievements Sir Hans Sloane 1st Baronet, PRS ( 16 April, 1660 &ndash 11 January, 1753) was an Ulster-Scot Physician and Martin Folkes FRS ( October 29, 1690 &ndash 1754 English Antiquary, was born in London. George Parker 2nd Earl of Macclesfield, FRS (c 1695 or 1697 &ndash March 17, 1764) was an English Astronomer. James Douglas 14th Earl of Morton KT FRS ( May 14, 1737 – October 12, 1819) was a Scottish representative Sir James Burrow FRS FSA, (born 28 November 1701, died 5 November 1782 at Starborough Castle, Lingfield Sir James Burrow FRS FSA, (born 28 November 1701, died 5 November 1782 at Starborough Castle, Lingfield Sir John Pringle 1st Baronet, FRS, ( April 10, 1707 - January 18, 1782) was a Scottish Physician who has been Sir Joseph Banks 1st Baronet, GCB, PRS (13 February 1743 &ndash 19 June 1820 was an English naturalist, botanist and patron of William Hyde Wollaston FRS ( August 6, 1766 &ndash December 22, 1828) was an English Chemist and physicist Sir Humphry Davy 1st Baronet FRS MRIA (17 December 1778 &ndash 29 May 1829 was a British Chemist and inventor Davies Gilbert (born Davies Giddy) ( 6 March 1767 &ndash 24 December 1839) was a British Engineer, Prince Augustus Frederick Duke of Sussex ( 27 January 1773 &ndash 21 April 1843) was the sixth son of George III of the United Kingdom Spencer Joshua Alwyne Compton 2nd Marquess of Northampton ( 2 January 1790 &ndash 17 January 1851) known as Lord Compton from 1796 William Parsons 3rd Earl of Rosse KP ( June 17, 1800 &ndash October 31, 1867) built the world's largest telescope in 1845 and it John Wrottesley 2nd Baron Wrottesley FRS FRAS (born August 5 1798 nr Sir Benjamin Collins Brodie 1st Baronet ( June 9, 1783 &mdash October 21, 1862) was an English Physiologist and surgeon General Sir Edward Sabine KCB FRS ( October 14, 1788 &ndash May 26, 1883) was an Irish Astronomer Sir George Biddell Airy FRS (27 July 1801&ndash2 January 1892 was an English Mathematician and Astronomer, Astronomer Royal Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker, OM, GCSI, MD, FRS (30 June 1817 – 10 December 1911 was an English Botanist and Explorer William Spottiswoode FRS ( January 11 1825, London - June 27 1883 London) was an English mathematician and Thomas Henry Huxley PC FRS (4 May 1825 – 29 June 1895 was an English Biologist, known as "Darwin's Bulldog" for his advocacy Sir George Gabriel Stokes 1st Baronet FRS ( 13 August 1819 &ndash 1 February 1903) was a mathematician and physicist William Thomson 1st Baron Kelvin (or Lord Kelvin) OM, GCVO, PC, PRS, FRSE, (26 June 1824 &ndash 17 December 1907 Joseph Lister 1st Baron Lister, OM, FRS ( 5 April 1827 &ndash 10 February 1912) was an English surgeon Sir William Huggins, OM, FRS ( February 7 1824 &ndash May 12 1910) was an English Astronomer John William Strutt 3rd Baron Rayleigh OM (12 November 1842 &ndash 30 June 1919 was an English Physicist who with William Ramsay, discovered Sir Archibald Geikie, OM, PRS ( December 28, 1835 - November 10, 1924) Scottish Geologist, was born Sir William Crookes, OM, FRS (17 June 1832 – 4 April 1919 was an English Chemist and Physicist. Sir Joseph John “JJ” Thomson, OM, FRS (18 December 1856 &ndash 30 August 1940 was a British Physicist and Nobel laureate Sir Charles Scott Sherrington OM, GBE, PRS ( November 27, 1857 - March 4, 1952) was an English neurophysiologist Ernest Rutherford 1st Baron Rutherford of Nelson, OM, PC, FRS (30 August 1871 – 19 October 1937 was a New Zealand Physicist Sir Frederick Gowland Hopkins OM FRS ( June 20, 1861 Eastbourne, Sussex - May 16, 1947 Cambridge Sir William Henry Bragg OM, KBE (2 July 1862 – 10 March 1942 was a British Physicist and Chemist who uniquely shared the Sir Henry Hallett Dale OM GBE FRS ( June 9, 1875 &ndash July 23, 1968) was an English Pharmacologist Sir Robert Robinson OM, PRS ( 13 September 1886 – 8 February 1975) was an English chemist and Nobel laureate Edgar Douglas Adrian 1st Baron Adrian OM PRS ( 30 November 1889 &ndash 4 August 1977) was a British electrophysiologist Sir Cyril Norman Hinshelwood OM PRS ( June 19, 1897 &ndash October 9, 1967) was an English Physical chemist Howard Walter Florey Baron Florey, OM, FRS, ( September 24, 1898 &ndash February 21, 1968) was an Australian Patrick Maynard Stuart Blackett Baron Blackett OM CH FRS ( 18 November 1897 &ndash 13 July 1974) was an Sir Alan Lloyd Hodgkin, OM, KBE, FRS (5 February 1914 Banbury, Oxfordshire, England – 20 December 1998 Cambridge Alexander Robertus Todd Baron Todd, PC, OM, FRS ( 2 October 1907 &ndash 10 January 1997) was a Scottish Sir Andrew Fielding Huxley, OM, FRS (born 22 November 1917, Hampstead, London) is an English physiologist George Porter Baron Porter of Luddenham, OM, FRS ( December 6, 1920 &ndash August 31, 2002) was a British Sir Michael Francis Atiyah, OM, FRS, FRSE (b April 22, 1929) is a British Mathematician, and one of the Sir Aaron Klug, OM, PRS (born 11 August 1926) is a Lithuanian born British Chemist and Biophysicist Robert McCredie May Baron May of Oxford, OM, AC, FRS (born Australia, 8 January 1936) has been Chief Scientific Adviser Martin John Rees Baron Rees of Ludlow, OM, PRS (born 23 June 1942 in York) is an English cosmologist The Royal Society (2008). Retrieved on 2008-04-02. 2008 ( MMVIII) is the current year in accordance with the Gregorian calendar, a Leap year that started on Tuesday of the Common Events 68 - Galba, Governor of Hispania, names himself legatus senatus populique Romani, breaking the line of
2. ^ Dudley Wright (1921). Sir Robert Moray: The First Recorded Initiation in England. The Builder. Retrieved on 2008-04-02. 2008 ( MMVIII) is the current year in accordance with the Gregorian calendar, a Leap year that started on Tuesday of the Common Events 68 - Galba, Governor of Hispania, names himself legatus senatus populique Romani, breaking the line of

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