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Sir Adrian Smith PRS
Elected 2001
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Sir Adrian Smith PRS
- Fellow
- Elected:2001
- President, The Royal SocietyInstitute Director and Chief Executive, Alan Turing Institute
President
Sir Adrian Smith is President of the Royal Society. He started his five year term on 30 November 2020.
Adrian is a mathematician with particular expertise in the field of Bayesian statistics and was knighted in 2011.
Read more about AdrianAbout the Fellowship
The Royal Society is a self-governing Fellowship made up of the most eminent scientists, engineers and technologists from the UK and the Commonwealth. Fellows and Foreign Members are elected for life through a peer review process on the basis of excellence in science.
There are approximately 1,700 Fellows and Foreign Members, including around 85 Nobel Laureates. Each year up to 52 Fellows and up to 10 Foreign Members are elected from a group of around 800 candidates who are proposed by the existing Fellowship.
Fellows in the news
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Professor Svante Paabo ForMemRS
Elected 2016
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Professor Svante Paabo ForMemRS
- Foreign Member
- Elected:2016
- Director, Max Planck Institute For Evolutionary Anthropology, Max Planck Society
Nobel Prize 2022
Svante Pääbo has developed techniques and approaches that allow DNA sequences from archaeological and paleontological remains to be determined.
The Nobel Assembly at Karolinska Institutet has awarded this year’s prize to Svante Pääbo “for his discoveries concerning the genomes of extinct hominin and human evolution”.
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Professor Alain Aspect ForMemRS
Elected 2015
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Professor Alain Aspect ForMemRS
- Foreign Member
- Elected:2015
- Augustin Fresnel Professor, Laboratoire Charles Fabry
Nobel Prize 2022
Alain Aspect is known for his experiments illuminating the most intriguing properties of quantum mechanics.
The Nobel Prize in Physics 2022 was awarded to Alain, along with John F. Clauser and Anton Zeilinger, “for experiments with entangled photons, establishing the violation of Bell inequalities and pioneering quantum information science”.
Read moreGovernance
The Royal Society is governed by a Council of Fellows, who are elected by the Fellowship. Find out more about the Officers, Council and Committees who oversee the work of the Society.
About the Fellowship
Discover the lives and scientific achievements of former Fellows in our Biographical Memoirs publication. Or find out more about the process of nomination, selection and admission.