• Notices 2010

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    The Royal Society regrets to announce the deaths of the following Fellows in 2010:

    Professor David John Hugh Cockayne FRS
    19 March 1942 - 22 December 2010 [elected 1999]
    Emeritus Professor of the Physical Examinations of Materials, Dpeartment of Materials, University of Oxford.

    Professor John Evan Baldwin FRS
    6 December 1931 - 7 December 2010 [elected 1991]
    Emeritus Professor of Radioastronomy, Cavendish Laboratory, University of Cambridge

    Sir Maurice Vincent Wilkes FREng FRS
    26 June 1913 - 29 November 2010 [elected 1956]
    Emeritus Professor of Computer Technology, Computer Laboratory, University of Cambridge
    Lecture: Clifford Paterson (1990)

    Professor Kenneth Burton FRS
    26 June 1926 - 22 November 2010 [elected 1974]
    Emeritus Professor of Biochemistry, University of Newcastle upon Tyne

    Professor Frank John Fenner AC CMG MBE FRS
    21 December 1914 - 22 November 2010 [elected 1958]
    Emeritus Professor and Visiting Fellow, John Curtin School of Medical Research, Australian National University
    Medal: Copley (1995) | Lectures: Leeuwenhoek (1961), Florey (1983)

    Professor Britton Chance ForMemRS
    24 July 1913 - 16 November 2010 (elected 1981)
    Emertius ER Johnson Professor of Biophysics, Biochemistry and Radiology, University of Pennsylvania and Director, Centre for Biomedical Optics, University City Science Centre, Philadelphia

    Dr Allan Rex Sandage ForMemRS
    18 June 1926 - 13 November 2010 [elected 2001]
    Staff Astronomer, Carnegie Observatories, California

    Professor Dudley Howard Williams FRS
    25 May 1937 - 3 November 2010 [elected 1983]
    Emeritus Professor of Biological Chemistry, University of Cambridge and Fellow of Churchill College, Cambridge.

    Professor Howard Henry Rosenbrock FRS
    16 December 1920 - 21 October 2010 [elected 1976]
    Emeritus Professor of Control Engineering, University of Manchester

    Professor John Conrad Waterlow CMG FRS
    13 June 1916 - 19 October 2010 [elected 1982]
    Emeritus Professor of Human Nutrition, University of London.

    Professor Owen Martin Phillips FRS
    30 December 1930 - 13 October 2010 [elected 1968]
    Decker Professor Emeritus, Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences, The Johns Hopkins University.

    Professor Trevor Evans FRS
    26 April 1927 - 10 October 2010 [elected 1988]
    Emeritus Professor of Physics, JJ Thomson Physical Laboratory, University of Reading.

    Professor Jerrold Eldon Marsden FRS
    17 August 1942 - 21 September 2010 [elected 2006]
    Carl F Braun Professor of Engineering and Control and Dynamical Systems, Caltech.

    Dr Alan Albert Townsend FRS
    22 January 1917 - 31 August 2010 [elected 1960]
    Emeritus Reader in Experimental Fluid Dynamics, University of Cambridge

    Sir Graham Collingwood Liggins CBE FRS
    24 June 1926 - 24 August 2010 [elected 1980]
    Emeritus Professor of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, and Honorary Research Fellow, Liggins Institute, University of Auckland

    Professor John Ashworth Nelder FRS
    8 October 1924 - 7 August 2010 [elected 1981]
    Formerly Head of the Department of Biomathematics, Rothamsted Experimental Stations, and Visiting Professor, Department of Mathematics, Imperial College London

    Professor Julian Besag FRS
    26 March 1945 - 6 August 2010 [elected 2004]
    Professor of Statistics, University of Washington

    Professor Graham Dixon-Lewis FRS
    1 July 1922 - 5 August 2010 [elected 1995]
    Emeritus Professor, School of Mechanical Engineering, University of Leeds

    Sir Frederick (Ned) Warner FRS
    31 March 2010 - 3 July 2010 [elected 1976]
    Visiting Professor, University of Essex

    Professor Edwin Smith FRS
    28 July 1931 - 4 July 2010 [elected 1996]
    Consultant and Emeritus Professor of Metallurgy, School of Materials, University of Manchester, and formerally Pro-Vice Chancellor, University of Manchester

    Lord Flowers of Queen's Gate in the City of Westminster FRS
    13 September 1924 - 25 June 2010 [elected 1961]
    Formerly Chancellor, University of Manchester and Formerly Vice-Chancellor, University of London

    Professor Harry Blackmore Whittington FRS
    24 March 1916 - 20 June 2010 [elected 1971]
    Emeritus Professor of Geology, Department of Earth Sciences, University of Cambridge

    Professor William Johnson FREng FRS
    20 April 1922 - 13 June 2010 [elected 1982]
    Emeritus Professor of Mechanics (Engineering), University of Cambridge

    Professor Richard Darwin Keynes CBE FRS
    14 August 1919 - 12 June 2010 [elected 1959]
    Emeritus Professsor of Physiology, Physiology Laboratory, University of Cambridge
    Lecture: Croonian (1983) | Council Service: 1965-1968 | VP: 1965-1968

    Professor Vladimir Arnold ForMemRS
    12 June 1937 - 3 June 2010 [elected 1988]
    Chief Scientific Researcher, Department of Geometry and Topology, Steklov Mathematical Institute, Moscow

    Sir Hugh Ford FRS
    16 July 1913 - 28 May 2010 [elected 1967]
    Emeritus Professor of Mechanical Engineering, University of London and Senior Research Fellows, Imperial College London.
    Council Service: 1973-1974

    Lord Wolfson of Marylebone Bt Kt HonFREng FRS
    11 November 1927 - 20 May 2010 [elected 2005]
    Chairman and Founder Trustee of the Wolfson Foundation.

    Professor Richard Langton Gregory CBE FRS
    24 July 1923 - 17 May 2010 [elected 1992]
    Senior Research Fellow and Emeritus Professor of Neuropsychology and formerly Director of the Brain and Perception Laboratory, University of Bristol.
    Medal: Michael Faraday (1992) | Lecture: Medawar (2001)

    Professor Athelstan Laurence Johnson Beckwith AO FRS
    20 February 1930 - 15 May 2010 [elected 1988]
    Emeritus Professor of the Australian National University, Canberra

    Dr (George) Alan Garton FRS
    4 June 1922 - 13 May 2010 [elected 1978]
    Honorary Professorial Fellows and formerly Head of the Lipid Biochemistry Department, and Deputy Director of the Rowett Research Institute, University of Aberdeen.

    Professor Clifford Hiley Mortimer FRS
    27 February 1911 - 11 May 2010 [elected 1958]
    Distinguished Professor Emeritus of Biology, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee

    Professor Boris Peter Stoicheff OC FRS
    1 June 1924 - 15 April 2010 [elected 1975]
    University Professor Emeritus of Physics in the University of Toronto.
    Lecture: UK-Canada Rutherford (1989) | Council Corresondent for Canada

    Sir James Whyte Black OM FRS
    14 June 1924 - 22 March 2010 [elected 1976]
    Emeritus Professor of Analytical Pharmacology, King's College London
    Medal: Mullard (1978) | Lecture: Phillips (1982) | Nobel Laureate, Physiology or Medicine (1988)

    Professor (Arthur John) Robin (Gorell) Milner FRS
    13 January 1934 - 20 March 2010 [elected 1988]
    Professor Emeritus of Computer Science, Computer Laboratory, University of Cambridge

    Sir (William) Ian Axford FRS
    2 January 1933 - 13 March 2010 [elected 1986]
    Emeritus Director of the Max-Planck-Institut fur Sonnonsystemforschung

    Dr Alec Douglas Bangham FRS
    10 November 1921 - 9 March 2010 [elected 1977]
    Formerly Head of the Biophysics Unit at the Agricultural Research Council Institute of Animal Physiology

    Dr Walter Plowright CMG FRS
    23 July 1923 - 19 February 2010 [elected 1981]
    Formerly Head of the Department of Microbiology, Argricultural and Food Research Council Institute for Research on Animal Diseases.

    Dr Duncan Joseph Greenwood CBE FRS
    16 October 1932 - 13 February 2010 [elected 1985]
    Associate Fellow, Warwick University

    Professor Daniel Joseph Bradley FRS
    18 January 1928 - 7 February 2010 [elected 1976]
    Emeritus Professor of Optical Electronics, Trinity College Dublin
    Medal: Royal (1983)

    Professor Patricia Hannah Clarke FRS
    29 July 1919 - 28 January 2010 [elected 1976]
    Emeritus Professor of Microbial Biochemistry, University of London
    Lecture: Leeuwenhoek (1979) | Council Service 1980-82 | Vice-President 1980-82

    Professor Geoffrey Ronald Burbidge FRS
    24 September 1925 - 26 January 2010 [elected 1968]
    Professor of Physics, University of California San Diego

    Professor Peter Neville Robson OBE FREng FRS
    23 November 1930 - 10 January 2010 [elected 1987]
    Emeritus Professor of Electronic and Electrical Engineering, University of Sheffield

    Professor Thomas West CBE FRS
    18 November 1927 - 9 January 2010 [elected 1989]
    Formerly Director of Macaulay Institute of Soil Research Aberdeen and Emeritus Professor of Chemistry, University of Aberdeen

    Dr Alan Head AO FRS
    10 August 1925 - 9 January 2010 [elected 1988]
    Honorary Fellow at the CSIRO Manufacturing and Infrastructure Technology, Victoria, Australia

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