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Disability history and the Royal Society

To celebrate UK Disability History Month, we take a look through the collections of the Royal Society, highlighting some of our Fellows whose work has made a positive difference for people with disabilities.

Journal - Biographical Memoirs of Fellows of the Royal Society

Paul Taunton Matthews, 19 November 1919 - 26 February 1987

Dec 1, 1988 - Paul Matthews died on 26 February 1987, following an accident while cycling in Cambridge. He was one of the most influential figures in the post-war revival of British theoretical physics and played a very significant role in the wider university

Chancellor boosts science spending

Sir Paul Nurse, President of the Royal Society said; “It is good news that George Osborne has found an additional £200 million to invest in science.

Journal - Biographical Memoirs of Fellows of the Royal Society

Paul Jose De Mayo. 8 August 1924 — 26 July 1994

Nov 1, 1999 - Paul de Mayo was born in London, the only son of Nissim and Anna de Mayo, who were originally members of the Sephardic Jewish community of Salonika (now Thessalonike). They emigrated to England in 1919 with their three-year-old daughter, Flora, to