• Notices 2011

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    The Royal Society regrets to announce the deaths of the following Fellows in 2011:

    Professor Harry Smith CBE FRS
    7 August 1921 - 10 December 2011 (elected 1979)
    Emeritus Professor of Microbiology, University of Birmingham.
    Lecture: Leeuwenhoek (1991)
    Council Service: 1989-91

    Professor Patrick Loudon Mollison CBE FRS
    17 March 1914 - 26 November 2011 (elected 1968)
    Emeritus Professor of Haematology, University of London.

    Professor John Philip Cooper CBE FRS
    16 December 1923 - 18 November 2011 (elected 1977)
    Formerly Director of the Welsh Plant Breeding Station and Emeritus Professor of Agricultural Botany, University of Wales.
    Council Service: 1983-84

    Sir David Jack CBE FRS
    22 February 1924 - 8 November 2011 (elected 1992)
    Formerly Research and Development Director, Glaxo Holdings plc.
    Medal: Mullard (1991)

    Dr Sydney Percy Smith Andrew FRS
    16 May 1926 - 2 November 2011 (elected 1976)
    Formerly Senior Research Associate, Imperial Chemical Industries plc.

    Dr Fraser John Bergersen AM FRS
    26 May 1929 - 3 October 2011 (elected 1981)
    Formerly Chief Research Scientist, Division of Plant Industry, Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation.

    Sir William Rede Hawthorne CBE FRS
    22 May 1913 - 16 September 2011 (elected 1955)
    Formerly Master of Churchill College and Emeritus Professor of Applied Thermodynamics, University of Cambridge.
    Medal: Royal (1982)
    Council Service: 1968-70, 1979-81
    VP 1969-70, 1979-81

    Professor Peter Henry Andrews Sneath FRS
    17 November 1923 - 9 September 2011 (elected 1995)
    Emeritus Professor of Clinical Microbiology, Department of Infection, Immunity and Inflammation, University of Leicester.

    Professor William Fleming Hoggan Jarrett FRS
    2 January 1928 - 27 August 2011 (elected 1980)
    Senior Research Fellow in Veterinary Pathology, Department of Veterinary Pathology, University of Glasgow.
    Lecture: Leeuwenhoek (1986)

    Professor Ian Stuart Edward Carmichael FRS
    29 March 1930 - 27 August 2011 (elected 1999)
    Professor of Geology, Department of Earth and Planetary Science, University of Californai Berkeley and Adjunct Professor, Department of Geological Sciences, University of Michigan.

    Dr Leslie Sydney Dennis Morley FRS
    23 May 1924 - 16 June 2011 (elected 1992)
    Formerly Honorary Professorial Research Fellow, Brunel Institute of Computational Mathematics.

    Professor Anatole Abragam ForMemRS
    15 December 1914 - 8 June 2011 (elected 1983)
    Lecture: Claude Bernard (1986)

    Professor Johhn Arthur Joseph Pateman FRS
    18 May 1926 - 18 May 2011 (elected 1978)
    Emeritus Professor of Genetics, Australian National University.

    Professor Noreen Elizabeth Murray CBE FRS
    26 February 1935 - 12 May 2011 (elected 1982)
    Emeritus Professor of Molecular Genetics, Institute of Cell Biology, University of Edinburgh.
    Medal: Gabor (1989)
    Council: 1992 - 1993, 2002 - 2004
    Vice President: 2002 - 2004


    Professor Francis Gordon Albert Stone CBE FRS
    19 May 1925 - 6 April 2011 (elected 1976)
    Distinguished Professor Emeritus of Chemistry, Department of Chemistry, Baylor University and Emeritus Professor of Inorganic Chemistry, School of Chemistry, University of Bristol.
    Medal: Davey (1989)
    Council: 1986 - 1988
    Vice President: 1987 - 1988

    Professor Thomas Eisner ForMemRS
    25 June 1929 - 25 March 2011 (elected 1997)
    Cornell University

    Professor (John) Murdoch Mitchison FRS
    15 June 1922 - 17 March 2011 (elected 1978)
    Emeritus Professor of Zoology, Institute of Cell, Animal and Population Biology, University of Edinburgh

    Professor Quentin Howieson Gibson FRS
    9 December 1918 - 16 March 2011 (elected 1969)
    Emeritus Professor of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Cornell University

    Professor Frank Featherstone Bonsall FRS
    31 March 1920 - 22 February 2011 (elected 1970)
    Emeritus Professor of Mathematics, University of Edinburgh.

    Professor (Arthur) Marshall Stoneham FRS
    18 May 1940 - 18 February 2011 [elected 1989]
    Emeritus Massey Professor and Honorary Fellow, Department of Physics and Astronomy and London Centre for Nanotechnology, University College London.
    Lecture: Zeneca (1995)
    Council: 1994 - 1996

    Dr David Stewart Jenkinson FRS
    25 Februaryb 1928 - 16 February 2011 [elected 1991]
    Lawes Trust Senior Fellow, Rothamsted Research

    Dr Anthony Milner Lane FRS
    27 July 1928 - 9 February 2011 [elected 1975]
    Formerly Deputy Chief Scientific Officer at the Atomic Energy Research Establishment, Harwell.

    Dr Rodney Hill FRS
    11 June 1921 - 2 February 2011 [elected 1961]
    Formerly Professor of Mechanics of Solids, University of Cambridge.
    Medal: Royal (1993)

    Professor Ernest A McCulloch OC FRS
    27 April 1926 - 20 January 2011 [elected 1999]
    Formerly Head of Cell and Molecular Biology, Ontario Cancer Institute.

    Sir Bernard Crossland CBE FRS
    20 October 1923 - 17 January 2011 [elected 1979]
    Emeritus Professor of Mechanical Engineering, Queen's University Belfast.
    Council: 1984 - 1986

    Sir John Archibald Browne Gray FRS
    30 March 1918 - 4 January 2011 [elected 1972]
    Formerly Secretary of the Medical Research Council.

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