• Notices 2008

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    The Royal Society regrets to announce the deaths of the following Fellows in 2008: 

    Name

    DOB

    Died

    SARGESON, Professor Alan McLeod FRS
    [1983] Emeritus Professor of Chemistry in the Australian National University, Canberra

    13-Oct-30

    29-Dec-08

    COOKSON, Professor Richard Clive FRS
    [1968] Emeritus Professor of Chemistry in the University of Southampton

    27-Aug-22

    17-Dec-08

    FOWDEN, Sir Leslie FRS
    [1964] Formerly Director of the Rothamsted Experimental Station
    Council Service: 1970-72

    13-Oct-25

    16-Dec-08

    DATTA, Professor Naomi FRS
    [1985] Emeritus Professor of Microbial Genetics in the University of London

    17-Sep-22

    30-Nov-08

    SALPETER, Professor Edwin Ernest ForMemRS
    [1993] Emeritus Professor, Astronomy Department, Cornell University, New York

    03-Dec-24

    25-Nov-08

    BADDILEY, Sir James FRS
    [1961] Emeritus Professor of Chemical Microbiology in the University of Newcastle upon Tyne.
    Medal: Davy (1974)
    Lecture: Leeuwenhoek (1967)
    Council Service: 1977-79

    15-May-18

    19-Nov-08

    FELLGETT, Professor Peter Berners FRS
    [1986] Emeritus Professor of Cybernetics in the University of Reading.

    11-Apr-22

    15-Nov-08

    BURCHAM, Professor William Ernest CBE FRS
    [1957] Emeritus Professor of Physics in the University of Birmingham.
    Lecture: Rutherford Memorial (1983)
    Council Service: 1977-79

    01-Aug-13

    05-Nov-08

    ELLIOTT, Professor James Philip FRS
    [1980] Emeritus Professor of Theoretical Physics in the University of Sussex.

    27-Jul-29

    21-Oct-08

    PALADE, Dr George Emil ForMemRS
    [1984] Dean of Scientific Affairs – Emeritus, University of California at San Diego.

    19-Nov-12

    07-Oct-08

    GOODWIN, Professor Trevor CBE FRS
    [1968] Emeritus Johnston Professor of Biochemistry in the University of Liverpool.
    Council Service: 1972-73, 1974-75, 1985-86

    22-June-16

    07-Oct-08

    LAVER, Professor William Graeme
    [1987] Formerly at the Australian National University, Canberra.

    03-June-29

    26-Sept-08

    PIPPARD, Sir (Alfred) Brian
    [1956] Emeritus Professor of Physics in the University of Cambridge.
    Medal: Hughes (1959)
    Council Service: 1963-64

    07-Sept-24

    21-Sept-08

    MacINTYRE, Professor Iain FRS
    [1996] Research Director of the
    William Harvey Research Institute, London.
    Medal: Buchanan (2006)

    30-Aug-24

    18-Sept-08

    BOWIE, Professor Stanley Hay Umphray FRS
    [1975] Formerly Assistant Director and Chief Geochemist of the Institute of Geological Sciences, London. Visiting Professor at the University of Strathclyde and at Imperial College London.

    24-Mar-17

    03-Sep-08

    ROOKE, Sir Denis Eric OM CBE FRS
    [1978] Formerly Chancellor of Loughborough University and Chairman, British Gas plc.
    Medal: Rumford (1986)

    02-Apr-24

    02-Sep-08

    THODAY, Professor John Marion FRS
    [1965] Emeritus Arthur Balfour Professor of Genetics in the University of Cambridge.

    30-Aug-16

    25-Aug-08

    BRADSHAW, Professor Anthony David FRS
    [1982] Emeritus Professor of Botany, University of Liverpool.
    Lecture: Croonian (1991)

    17-Jan-26

    21-Aug-08

    SAFFMAN, Professor Philip Geoffrey FRS
    [1988] Theodore von Karman Professor of Applied Mathematics and Aeronautics Emeritus at the California Institute of Technology, USA.

    19-Mar-31

    17-Aug-08

    CARTAN, Professor Henri Paul ForMemRS
    [1971]

    08-Jul-04

    13-Aug-08

    BARTLETT, Professor Neil FRS
    [1973] Emeritus Professor of Chemistry in the University of California, Berkeley, USA, and formerly Principal Investigator in the Chemical Sciences Division at the Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory.
    Medal: Davy (2002)

    15-Sept-32

    05-Aug-08

    MOORE, Professor Derek William FRS
    [1990] Emeritus Professor of Applied Mathematics at Imperial College London.

    19-Apr-31

    15-Jul-08

    GIBSON, Professor Frank William
    Ernest AM FRS
    [1976] Emeritus Professor of Biochemistry in the John Curtin School of Medical Research, Australian National University.
    Lecture: Leeuwenhoek (1981)

    22-Jul-23

    11-Jul-08

    RITCHIE, Professor Joseph Murdoch FRS
    [1976] Emeritus Eugene Higgins Professor of Pharmacology in Yale University.

    10-Jun-25

    09-Jul-08

    LANG, Professor Andrew Richard FRS
    [1975] Senior Research Fellow and Emeritus Professor of Physics in the University of Bristol.
    Medal: Hughes (1997)

    09-Sept-24

    30-Jun-08

    FASHAM, Professor Michael John Robert FRS
    [2000] Biological Modelling Group, George Deacon Division, National Oceanography Centre, University of Southampton.

    29-May-42

    07-Jun-08

    OTTEWILL, Professor Ronald Harry OBE FRS
    [1982] Emeritus Professor of Physical
    Chemistry and Senior Research Fellow
    in the University of Bristol

    08-Feb-27

    04-Jun-08

    WILD, Dr (John) Paul AC CBE FRS
    [1970] Formerly Chairman and Chief Executive of the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organization, Australia.
    Medal: Royal (1980)

    17-May-23

    10-May-08

    LORENZ, Professor Edward Norton ForMemRS
    [1990] Department of Earth, Atmospheric and Planetary Science, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

    23-May-17

    16-Apr-08

    SALTON, Professor Milton Robert James FRS
    [1979] Emeritus Professor of Microbiology, New York University School of Medicine, USA.

    29-Apr-21

    14-Apr-08

    WHEELER, Professor Emeritus John Archibald ForMemRS
    [1995] Department of Physics, Joseph Henry Laboratories, Princeton University.

    09-Jul-11

    13-Apr-08

    HIGMAN, Professor Graham FRS
    [1958] Emeritus Professor of Pure
    Mathematics, Mathematical Institute, University of Oxford.
    Medal: Sylvester (1979)

    19-Jan-17

    08-Apr-08

    ALLEN, Professor Percival FRS
    [1973] Emeritus Professor of Geology, Postgraduate Research Institute for Sedimentology, University of Reading.
    Council Service: 1977-79; VP 1977-79

    15-Mar-17

    03-Apr-08

    KNOWLES, Dean Jeremy Randall CBE FRS
    [1977] Amory Houghton Professor of Chemistry and Biochemistry and Interim Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences, Harvard University.
    Medal: Davy (1991)

    28-Apr-35

    03-Apr-08

    CUSHING, Dr David Henry FRS
    [1977] Formerly Deputy Director, Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food

    14-Mar-20

    14-Mar-08

    BROADBENT, Professor Edward Granville FRS
    [1977] Senior Research Investigator, Imperial College London.

    27-Jun-23

    09-Mar-08

    SPEAR, Professor Walter Eric FRS
    [1980] Emeritus Professor of Physics, University of Dundee.
    Medal: Rumford (1990)
    Lecture: Bakerian (1988)

    20-Jan-21

    21-Feb-08

    LEDERBERG, Professor Joshua ForMemRS
    [1979] Sackler Foundation at the Rockefeller University, New York,
    Nobel Laureate, Physiology or Medicine, 1958

    23-May-25

    02-Feb-08

    SPENCER, Professor Anthony James Merrill FRS
    [1987] Emeritus Professor of Theoretical Mechanics, Division of Theoretical Mechanics, School of Mathematical Sciences, The University of Nottingham.

    23-Aug-29

    26-Jan-08

    LAWSON, Dr John David FRS
    [1983] Honorary Scientist at
    the Rutherford Appleton Laboratory

    04-Apr-23

    16-Jan-08

    HILL, Sir John McGregor FREng FRS
    [1981] Formerly Chairman, United Kingdom Atomic Energy Authority.

    21-Feb-21

    14-Jan-08

    DALTON, Sir Howard FRS
    [1993]  Professor of Biological Sciences, Department of Biological Sciences, University of Warwick
    Lecture: Leeuwenhoek

    08-Feb-44

    12-Jan-08

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