Fellow of the Royal Society (FRS)

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Fellow of the Royal Society (FRS) is a prestigious scientific fellowship awarded by the Royal Society of London to individuals who have made substantial contributions to the advancement of natural knowledge.

Aliases (10)
  • Fellow of the Royal Society ×82
  • Fellowship of the Royal Society ×5
  • Royal Society Fellowship ×5
  • Fellows of the Royal Society ×2
  • fellows of the Royal Society ×2
  • FRS denotes a Fellow of the Royal Society ×1
  • Fellow of the Royal Society of London ×1
  • Royal Society (London) fellowship ×1
  • Royal Society fellowship ×1
  • members of the Royal Society ×1

Statements (45)
Predicate Object
instanceOf academic distinction
honorific title
scientific fellowship
abbreviation FRS
associatedOrganizationType national academy of sciences
associatedWith Royal Charter of the Royal Society
awardedBy Royal Society
basedIn London
conferredBy election by the Royal Society Council
country United Kingdom
criterion substantial contribution to the advancement of natural knowledge
domain scientific research
eligibility engineers
mathematicians
medical researchers
scientists
field engineering
mathematics
medical sciences
natural sciences
fullName Fellow of the Royal Society of London
governingBody Council of the Royal Society
grantedFor outstanding contributions to science
hasGenderNeutralForm Fellow of the Royal Society
hasMotto Nullius in verba (motto of the Royal Society)
hasSubclass Foreign Member of the Royal Society
Honorary Fellow of the Royal Society
historicalSignificance represents long-standing institutional recognition of scientific merit
inception 1660s
isPartOf honours and awards in science
language English
notableFor being one of the oldest scientific fellowships
high prestige in the global scientific community
postNominalLetters FRS
recognizes innovation in science
original research
scientific excellence
regionServed worldwide
relatedTo Royal Society Fellowship
scope international
selectionBody existing Fellows of the Royal Society
selectionMethod peer election
status lifetime honor
typeOfAward professional recognition
usedAs post-nominal title

Referenced by (59)
Subject (surface form when different) Predicate
Alan Cottrell ("Fellowship of the Royal Society")
Alan Turing ("Fellow of the Royal Society")
Bernard F. Schutz ("Royal Society Fellowship")
C. V. Raman ("Fellow of the Royal Society")
Charles Galton Darwin ("Fellow of the Royal Society")
David Deutsch ("Royal Society fellowship")
David W. C. MacMillan ("Fellow of the Royal Society")
Demis Hassabis ("Royal Society Fellowship")
Erasmus Darwin
George Batchelor ("Fellow of the Royal Society")
George Philip Wells ("Fellow of the Royal Society")
Harish-Chandra ("Fellow of the Royal Society")
Heinz London ("Fellow of the Royal Society")
Henry Tizard ("Fellow of the Royal Society")
James Lovelock ("Fellow of the Royal Society")
James Watt ("Fellow of the Royal Society of London")
John Venn ("Fellow of the Royal Society")
Joseph Needham ("Fellowship of the Royal Society")
Lord Browne of Madingley ("Fellow of the Royal Society")
Mark Oliphant ("Fellow of the Royal Society")
Richard Price ("Fellow of the Royal Society")
Robert FitzRoy ("Fellow of the Royal Society")
Robert Hinde ("Fellow of the Royal Society")
Robert Watson-Watt ("Fellow of the Royal Society")
Robin Milner ("Royal Society Fellowship")
Ronald A. Fisher ("Fellow of the Royal Society")
Satyendra Nath Bose ("Fellowship of the Royal Society")
Satyendra Nath Bose ("Fellow of the Royal Society")
Stephen Cook ("Royal Society (London) fellowship")
Tony Hoare ("Royal Society Fellowship")
Wendy Hall ("Fellow of the Royal Society")
awardReceived
Christopher Cockerell ("Fellow of the Royal Society")
Dorothy Hodgkin ("Fellow of the Royal Society")
Francis Crick ("Fellow of the Royal Society")
Henry Bessemer ("Fellow of the Royal Society")
Srinivasa Ramanujan ("Fellow of the Royal Society")
positionHeld
Arthur Geoffrey Walker ("Fellow of the Royal Society")
George Boole ("Fellow of the Royal Society")
Tony Hoare ("Fellow of the Royal Society")
hasHonorificTitle
FRSC
Fellow of the Royal Society ("Royal Society Fellowship")
Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh
relatedTo
Proceedings of the Royal Society ("Fellows of the Royal Society")
Royal Society Publishing ("fellows of the Royal Society")
associatedWith
FRS ("Fellows of the Royal Society")
Nullius in verba ("fellows of the Royal Society")
usedBy
John Whitehurst ("members of the Royal Society")
correspondedWith
FRS ("Fellow of the Royal Society")
denotesStatus
Antonie van Leeuwenhoek ("Fellow of the Royal Society")
electedTo
FRS ("Fellow of the Royal Society")
hasGenderNeutralForm
Royal Society ("Fellow of the Royal Society")
hasHonor
David Silver ("Fellow of the Royal Society")
honor
Christopher Longuet-Higgins ("Fellow of the Royal Society")
honorificTitle
Foreign Member of the Royal Society ("Fellowship of the Royal Society")
isPartOf
Satyendra Nath Bose ("Fellow of the Royal Society")
memberOf
Charles Glover Barkla ("Fellow of the Royal Society")
nobleTitle
ForMemRS ("FRS denotes a Fellow of the Royal Society")
relatedTitleDescription
FRS ("Fellow of the Royal Society")
standsFor
FRS ("Fellowship of the Royal Society")
typeOfMembership

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