Royal Society

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learned society national academy of sciences scientific organization

The Royal Society is the United Kingdom’s national academy of sciences, renowned as one of the world’s oldest and most prestigious scientific institutions dedicated to promoting excellence in science.

Aliases (14)

Royal Society of London ×22
The Royal Society ×8
Council of the Royal Society ×2
Royal Society Council ×2
Royal Charter of the Royal Society ×1
Royal Society (London) ×1
Royal Society (through scientific publications) ×1
Royal Society Research Professorships ×1
Royal Society buildings ×1
Royal Society in London ×1
Royal Society of London for Improving Natural Knowledge ×1
Royal Society, London ×1
national academy of sciences of the United Kingdom ×1
national academy of the United Kingdom ×1

Statements (61)

Predicate	Object
instanceOf	learned society → national academy of sciences → scientific organization →
abbreviation	FRS → ForMemRS →
awards	Bakerian Medal and Prize → Copley Medal → Davy Medal → Hughes Medal → Kavli Medal and Lecture → Milner Award and Lecture → Royal Medal → Royal Society Industry Fellowships → Royal Society Newton International Fellowships → Royal Society Research Professorships → Royal Society University Research Fellowships → Rumford Medal → Sylvester Medal →
charterGranted	1662 →
country	United Kingdom →
describedAs	one of the world’s most prestigious scientific institutions → one of the world’s oldest scientific academies in continuous existence →
fieldOfWork	engineering → mathematics → medicine → natural sciences → science →
foundedBy	Charles II of England →
foundingLocation	London →
hasBuilding	6–9 Carlton House Terrace →
hasHonor	Fellow of the Royal Society → Foreign Member of the Royal Society →
hasPublication	Biology Letters → Interface Focus → Journal Interface → Journal Open Biology → Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society → Proceedings of the Royal Society → Royal Society Open Science →
hasWebsite	https://royalsociety.org →
headquartersCity	London →
headquartersCountry	United Kingdom →
headquartersLocation	Carlton House Terrace, London →
inception	1660 →
languageOfWorkOrName	English →
legalForm	royal chartered corporation →
motto	Nullius in verba →
mottoLanguage	Latin →
mottoTranslation	Take nobody’s word for it →
notableMember	Albert Einstein → Charles Darwin → Dorothy Hodgkin → Isaac Newton → Stephen Hawking → Tim Berners-Lee →
purpose	promotion of excellence in science → scientific education and outreach → scientific policy advice → support of scientific research →
regionServed	United Kingdom →
scope	international →

Referenced by (335)

Subject (surface form when different)	Predicate
Abdus Salam → Abraham de Moivre → Adolf Erik Nordenskiöld → Ahmed Zewail → Alan Cottrell → Alan Hodgkin → Alan Turing → Albert Eschenmoser → Albrecht von Haller → Alessandro Volta → Alfred Harker → Alfred North Whitehead → Alfred Russel Wallace ("Royal Society of London") → Andrei Kolmogorov ("Royal Society of London") → Andrew Wiles → André Weil → Ann Dowling → Antoine Lavoisier → Antonie van Leeuwenhoek → Arthur Geoffrey Walker → Arthur Herbert Church → Arthur Holmes → Arthur Stanley Eddington → Augustin Pyramus de Candolle → Augustin-Louis Cauchy → Barnes Wallis → Benjamin Thompson, Count Rumford → Bernard F. Schutz → Bernard F. Schutz ("Royal Society of London") → Bertrand Russell → Bertrand Russell → Brian Pippard → C. N. Yang → C. V. Raman → Carl Linnaeus → Carl Wilhelm Siemens → Carl Woese → Carl von Martius ("Royal Society of London") → Carlo Rubbia → Cecil F. Powell → Charles Babbage → Charles Best → Charles Coulson → Charles Darwin → Charles Galton Darwin → Charles Glover Barkla → Charles Lyell → Charles Weissmann → Christiaan Huygens → Christopher Longuet-Higgins → Christopher Wren → David Hilbert ("Royal Society of London") → David Silver → Demis Hassabis → Derek H. R. Barton → Donald Davies → Donald E. Knuth → Donna Strickland → Dorothy Hodgkin → Edmund Halley → Edward Witten → Edwin E. Salpeter → Elias J. Corey → Elihu Thomson → Elizabeth Blackburn → Emil Fischer → Emil Theodor Kocher ("Royal Society of London") → Ernest Rutherford → Ernst Mayr → Eugene Wigner → Francis Crick → Francis Darwin → Francis Fauquier → Frederick Gowland Hopkins → Frederick Gowland Hopkins → Freeman Dyson → Freeman Dyson → Freeman Dyson → G. H. Hardy → G. K. Batchelor → Geoffrey Hinton → George Batchelor → George Everest → George Gabriel Stokes → George Howard Darwin → George Paget Thomson → George Philip Wells → Georges Cuvier → Gerard ’t Hooft → Gerhard Herzberg → Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz → Gustav Kirchhoff → H. Christopher Longuet-Higgins → H. S. M. Coxeter → Hans Bethe → Hans Bethe → Hans Christian Ørsted → Harold Davenport → Heike Kamerlingh Onnes → Heinz London → Hendrik Lorentz → Henri Becquerel → Henri Poincaré → Henry Cavendish → Henry Oldenburg → Henry Tizard → Hermann Weyl → Hermann von Helmholtz → Homi J. Bhabha → Horace Bénédict de Saussure ("Royal Society of London") → Horace Darwin → Horace Lamb → Hugh Longuet-Higgins → Isaac Newton → J. B. S. Haldane → J. J. Thomson → James Chadwick → James Clerk Maxwell → James David Forbes → James Smithson → Jane Lubchenco → Jean Perrin → Jean-Baptiste Joseph Fourier → Jean-Marie Lehn → Jean-Pierre Serre → Jennifer Doudna → Johann Friedrich Blumenbach → John Bardeen → John Charles Fields ("Royal Society (London)") → John Cockcroft → John H. Conway → John Kendrew → John Polanyi → John Stevens Henslow → John Venn → Joseph Black ("Royal Society of London") → Joseph Larmor → Joseph Lister → Joseph Needham → Joseph Prestwich → Joseph Priestley → Joseph Rotblat → Joseph-Louis Lagrange → Julian Huxley → Julius Plücker → K. Barry Sharpless → Lawrence Bragg → Leonhard Euler → Leslie Valiant → Lord Kelvin → Lord Rayleigh → Louis Agassiz ("Royal Society of London") → Louis Néel → M. S. Swaminathan ("Royal Society of London") → Mark Oliphant → Mark Oliphant → Martin Ryle → Maurice Wilkins → Max Born → Max Perutz → Max Planck → Meghnad Saha → Michael Atiyah → Michael Faraday → Michael Green → Michael S. Longuet-Higgins → Murray Gell-Mann → Nathaniel Bowditch → Nevill Mott → Nicholas Aylward Vigors → Otto Frisch → Partha Dasgupta → Paul Dirac → Paul Nurse → Paul Nurse → Peter Higgs → Peter Kapitza → Peter Simon Pallas → Philip Anderson → Pierre Deligne → Pierre-Simon Laplace → Prince Rupert of the Rhine → Richard Price → Robert Boyle → Robert Brown → Robert Bunsen → Robert Burns Woodward → Robert FitzRoy → Robert Hinde → Robert Hooke → Robert May → Robin Milner → Roger Penrose → Ronald A. Fisher → Rudolf Clausius → Rudolf Peierls → Satyendra Nath Bose → Shiing-Shen Chern → Simon Newcomb → Sir Bernard Lovell → Sir John Soane → Sir Thomas Brisbane → Srinivasa Ramanujan → Stephen Cook → Stephen Hawking → Steven Weinberg → Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar → Terence Tao → Thomas Henry Huxley → Thomas Horsfield → Thomas Malthus → Thomas Young → Tim Berners-Lee → Tom Kibble → Tony Hoare → Tullio Levi-Civita ("Royal Society of London") → Walter Gilbert → Walther Nernst → Wendy Hall → Werner Heisenberg → William Armstrong, 1st Baron Armstrong → William Bateson → William Whewell → William Withering → Wolfgang Pauli →	memberOf
A Dynamical Theory of the Electromagnetic Field ("Royal Society of London") → Biology Letters ("The Royal Society") → Interface Focus → Journal Interface → Journal of the Royal Society Interface → Open Biology → Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society → Philosophiæ Naturalis Principia Mathematica → Proceedings of the Royal Society → Royal Society Open Science → The Chemical Basis of Morphogenesis →	publisher
Copley Medal → Davy Medal → First voyage of James Cook → Hughes Medal → Milner Award and Lecture → Royal Society Newton International Fellowships ("The Royal Society") → Royal Society University Research Fellowships → Royal Society lecture prizes → Rumford Medal → Sylvester Medal →	sponsor
Augustus Frederick, Duke of Sussex → Charles Montagu, 1st Earl of Halifax → Experiments on Air → FRS → Fellow of the Royal Society ("Royal Charter of the Royal Society") → Margaret Cavendish, Duchess of Newcastle-upon-Tyne ("Royal Society of London") → Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society ("Royal Society of London") → President of the British Academy ("national academy of the United Kingdom") → Samuel Smith ("Royal Society (through scientific publications)") →	associatedWith
Bakerian Medal and Prize ("Royal Society of London") → Copley Medal → Davy Medal → Hughes Medal → Kavli Medal and Lecture → Milner Award and Lecture → Royal Medal → Sylvester Medal →	presentedBy
Bakerian Medal and Prize ("Royal Society Council") → Newton Fund → Royal Society Dorothy Hodgkin Fellowships → Royal Society Industry Fellowships ("The Royal Society") → Royal Society Newton International Fellowships ("The Royal Society") → Royal Society University Research Fellowships →	administeredBy
Bakerian Medal and Prize → Fellow of the Royal Society → Foreign Member of the Royal Society → Royal Society lecture prizes → Rumford Medal →	awardedBy
Biology Letters ("The Royal Society") → Journal Interface → Journal of the Royal Society Interface → Open Biology → Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society →	publishedBy
Accademia dei Lincei → Francis Bacon → X Club ("Royal Society of London") →	influenced
Royal Academy of Engineering → Royal Society of Edinburgh →	coordinatesWith
Henry Cavendish → Henry Oldenburg →	employer
Interface Focus ("The Royal Society") → Royal Society Publishing →	parentOrganization
Nullius in verba →	adoptedBy
Sir Godfrey Copley →	affiliation
President of the Royal Society →	appliesToOrganization
Davy Medal ("Royal Society of London") →	associatedWithOrganization
Hughes Medal →	awardingBody
Copley Medal →	awardingBodyFounded
Royal Society ("Royal Society Research Professorships") →	awards
Royal Medal ("Royal Society Council") →	awardSelectionBy
6–9 Carlton House Terrace ("Royal Society buildings") →	category
ForMemRS →	conferredBy
Antonie van Leeuwenhoek ("Royal Society in London") →	correspondedWith
Voltaic pile ("Royal Society of London") →	demonstratedTo
Alan Hodgkin →	electedFellowOf
Royal Medal →	establishedBy
President of the Royal Society ("Royal Society of London for Improving Natural Knowledge") →	fullNameOfOrganization
Fellow of the Royal Society ("Council of the Royal Society") →	governingBody
FRS →	grantedBy
Sylvester Medal ("Royal Society of London") →	hasAwardingBody
Sir Godfrey Copley ("Royal Society of London") →	hasBequestTo
Novum Organum ("Royal Society of London") →	hasInfluenceOn
Scientific Revolution →	hasInstitution
President of the Royal Society →	hasJurisdiction
Foreign Member of the Royal Society ("Council of the Royal Society") →	hasOrganizer
6–9 Carlton House Terrace →	hasTenant
President of the Royal Society →	headOf
6–9 Carlton House Terrace →	headquartersOf
David Deutsch →	isFellowOf
Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society →	isFlagshipJournalOf
Copley Medal →	isLargestAwardOf
Nullius in verba →	mottoOf
Restoration (England) →	notableInstitution
6–9 Carlton House Terrace →	occupant
President of the Royal Society →	officeHolderOf
Royal Society Publishing →	operatedBy
Royal Society lecture prizes →	organizer
Sir Godfrey Copley →	patronage
Charles II of England →	patronOf
A Dynamical Theory of the Electromagnetic Field ("Royal Society of London") →	presentedTo
Proceedings of the Royal Society ("The Royal Society") →	publishingOrganization
Fellowship of Engineering →	relatedOrganization
FRS ("national academy of sciences of the United Kingdom") →	scope
Royal Society of Thailand →	shortName
Royal Society Industry Fellowships ("The Royal Society") →	sponsoredBy
Royal Academy of Sciences and other national academies →	typicalMember
Royal Society lecture prizes ("Royal Society, London") →	typicalVenue
ForMemRS →	usedBy
RAEng →	worksWith