• Notices 2013

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    The Royal Society regrets to announce the deaths of the following Fellows in 2013

    Dr Malcolm Roy Clarke FRS
    24 October 1930 - 10 May 2013 (elected 1981)
    Formerly Senior Principal Scientific Officer, Marine Biological Association of the UK

    Professor Struther Arnott CBE FRS
    25 September 1934 - 20 April 2013 (elected 1985)
    Emeritus Professor and Vice-Chancellor, University of St Andrews, Professor of Molecular Biophysics, Whistler Centre for Carbohydrate Research, Purdue University, Visiting Professor, University College London and Visiting Professor and Senior Research Fellow, Department of Biomolecular Medicine, Imperial College London.

    Sir Robert Geoffrey Edwards CBE FRS
    27 September 1925 - 10 April 2013 (elected 1984)
    Emeritus Professor of Human Reproduction, University of Cambridge
    Nobel: Physiology or Medicine (2010)

    Baroness Thatcher of Kesteven in the County of Lincolnshire LG OM PC FRS
    13 October 1925 - 8 April 2013 (elected 1983)
    Former Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (1979-1990)

    Sir Kenneth Murray FRS
    30 December 1930 - 7 April 2013 (elected 1979)
    Formerly Biogen Professor of Molecular Biology, Institute of Cell Biology, School of Biological Sciences, University of Edinburgh.
    Lectures: Leeuwenhoek (1985), Zeneca (1997)
    Medal: Royal (2012)
    Council Service: 1987 - 1989

    Professor Paul Gordon Jarvis FRS
    23 May 1935 - 5 February 2013 (elected 1997)
    Emeritus Professor of Forestry and Natural Resources, The Institute of Atmospheric and Environmental Science, School of GeoSciences, University of Edinburgh

    Sir Kenneth Henderson Jack OBE FRS
    12 October 1918 - 28 January 2013 (elected 1980)
    Emeritus Professor of Applied Crystal Chemistry, University of Newcastle upon Tyne andn Honorary Professor, Department of Materials Engineering, University of Wales, Swansea.
    Medal: Armourers & Brasiers' Company (1988)

    Dr Brigitte Alice Askonas FMedSci FRS
    1 April 1923 - 9 January 2013 (elected 1973)
    Visiting Professor, National Heart and Lung Institute, Imperial College London
    Council service: 1988-1990, 2002-2003
    Vice-President 1989-1990

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