Past & Present Honorary Fellows

The Society has had a number of eminent scientists elected as Honorary Fellows since 1840.

2021 Ed Boyes
2021 Alan Craven
2020 Anne E. Carpenter
2020 Knut Urban
2020 Peter D. Nellist
2020 George D.W. Smith
2019 Barry Carter
2019 David B. Williams
2019 Mervyn Miles

2018 Pratibha Gai
2018 Joachim Frank
2017 Lawrence Michael Brown
2017 Stefan Hell
2017 Wolfgang Baumeister
2017 John Spence
2017 Frances Ross
2017 Bridget Carragher
2017 Brian J Ford
2016 Anthony Cullis
2016 John Pethica
2016 Paul Midgley
2016 Eric Betzig
2015 Chris Hawes
2015 David Ehrhardt
2015 Peter Hepler
2015 Max Haider
2015 Dirk van Dyck
2015 Petra Schwille
2015 Xiaowei Zhuang
2015 Colin Humphreys
2015 Barbara Bain
2015 Leonore Herzenberg
2015 Michael G Ormerod
2014 Mildred Dresselhaus
2014 Jennifer Lippincott-Schwartz
2014 Ernst Stelzer
2014 Michael Sheetz
2014 Ondrej Krivanek
2014 Flemming Besenbacher
2014 Helen Saibil
2014 Anne Ridley
2014 Richard Paden
2014 Leonard Herzenberg 
2013 John Hutchison
2010 Brad Amos
2008 Harald Rose
2005 Paul Hirst
2002 Gerard L'E Turner
2002 P Echlin
2001 Sumio Iijima
2001 M.J. Whelan
2000 R. Tsien
2000 Stan Holt
2000 G.A.D. Briggs
1999 Osamu Shimomura
1998 Peter J. Evennett
1998 Sir Harold Kroto
1998 Tony Wilson
1997 Savile Bradbury
1994 M. Petran
1993 N.A. Kiselev
1993 Hellmuth Sitte
1990 Walter McCrone
1990 T.A. Hall
1989 P.N.T. Unwin
1989 B. Clive Cowen
1989 Sir J.M. Thomas
1989 Brian Ralph
1988 S. Inoue, Massachusetts
1988 J.N. McArthur, Cambridge
1988 H. Rohrer, Switzerland
1988 G. Binnig, Munich
1988 C.P. Leblond, Quebec
1987 E. Ash , London
1987 D. McMullan, Cambridge
1985 A. Klug, Cambridge
1984 T. Mulvey, Birmingham
1984 K.C.A. Smith, Cambridge
1984 C.F. Quate, Stanford, California
1984 A.V. Crewe, Chicago, Illinois
1983 H. Hashimoto, Osaka
1983 A. Thaer, Wetzlar
1982 R. Castaing, Paris 
1982 M. Karnovsky, Massachusetts
1982 H. Haselmann, Tubingen
1981 J.V.P. Long, Cambridge
1981 D.W. Pashley, London
1981 D.G. Murchison, Newcastle
1979 W.G. Hartley, Seaford
1978 Z. Lojda, Prague
1978 E. Weibel, Bern
1978 A. Howie, Cambridge
1977 Sir Peter Hirsch, Oxford
1976 J .S. PI oem, Leiden
1975 J . Sikorski, Leeds
1974 Sir James Menter, London
1974 J .H. Scharf, Halle 
1974 G. Nomarski, Orsay, France
1973 O. Eranko, Helsinki
1973 H. Pillar, Oberkochen
1973 Audrey M. Glauert, Cambridge
1972 M. Pluta, Warsaw 
1970 Sir Charles Oatley, Cambridge 
1970 S.H.C. Tolansky, Englefield Green
1970 R.W. Horne, Norwich 
1970 Alan W. Agar, Harlow 
1969 Professor Brumberg, Leningrad 
1969 J. Dyson, Teddington
1969 A.C. van Dorsten, Amsterdam
1968 S.C. Palay, Massachusetts
1968 K.R. Porter, Philadelphia
1968 J.R. Baker, Oxford
1968 G. Palade, New York 
1968 F. Gabler, Vienna 
1967 W. Bernhard, Villejuif 
1967 R.D. Preston, Leeds
1966 HRH Prince Philip, The Duke of Edinburgh
1965 V.E. Cosslett, Cambridge 
1965 F.H. Smith, York 
1964 Lord Fleck, London 
1964 A.G.E. Pearse, London 
1963 Sir Howard Florey, Oxford 
1963 Maurice Francon, Paris
1963 M.G. Lozinsky, Moscow 
1963 M.C. Brown, Chicago, Illinois 
1963 Ernst Ruska, Berlin
1963 A. Castellani , Italy 
1962 Oscar W. Richards, Conneticut
1962 G. Dupouy, Toulouse 
1961 R. Barer, MC, Oxford 
1961 M.E. Haine, Aldermaston 
1961 Irene Manton, Leeds 
1960 Sir Wilfred Fish, London
1960 Irene Crespin, Australia
1960 A. Frey-Weyssling, Zurich 
1959 T. Caspersson, Stockholm
1959 J. Smiles, London
1959 Dorothy Russell, London
1959 B.K. Johnson, London
1958 R.J. Ludford, London
1958 Maria Rooseboom, Leiden
1958 E.K. Maxwell, Shinfield
1958 E.H. Land, Massachusetts
1958 D.W. Fawcett, Massachusetts
1957 E.W. Taylor, York
1956 Professor Pomerat, Texas
1956 G.U. Gey, Baltimore, Maryland
1955 C. Tierney, Coulsdon
1954 F.M. Duncan, London
1953 J. Bronte Gatenby, Dublin
1952 Sir Henry H. Dale, OM, London
1952 Lord Adrian, OM, Cambridge
1951 William A.F.Balfour-Browne, Dumfries
1951 T.E. Wallis, London
1951 R. Ruggles Gates, Massachusetts
1951 H.G. Cannon, Manchester
1951 Ernst Leitz, Wetzlar
1951 Arthur Earland, Dundee
1950 Warren H. Lewis, Philadelphia
1950 Reginald S. Clay, London
1950 Ralph W.G. Wyckoff, Arizona
1950 R. Chambers, New York, N.Y.
1950 Frits Zernike, Groningen
1950 Edmund Vincent, Philadelphia
1950 E.V. Cowdry, Missouri
1950 Cecil R. Burch, Bristol
1950 Adrianus Pijper, South Africa
1948 J.A. Murray, London
1947 J.E. Barnard, Oxhey, Hertfordshire
1946 C.F. Hill, Warrington
1938 J.A. Cushman, Massachusetts
1934 E. Kuster, Giessen
1933 Sir Robert Hadfield, London
1933 Sir Herbert Jackson, London
1931 V. Gregoire, Louvain
1931 Otto Rosenberg, Stockholm
1931 K. Krujii, Tokyo
1930 Sir John Bretland Farmer, London
1929 Ludwig Rhumbler, Munden
1929 Hans de Winiwarter, Liege
1929 Frederick Chapman, Australia
1925 Marshall D. Ewell, Memphis
1923 Alfred B. Rendle, London
1919 Albert D. Michael, Swanage
1918 Lady Mary Elizabeth Bruce, London
1912 Eugene Penard, Geneva
1908 J.W. Judd, Kew
1905 W.G. Farlow, Massachusetts
1905 R.W. Wood, Baltimore
1905 H.S.Jennings, Baltimore
1905 E.B. Wilson, New York, N.Y.
1904 Y. Delage, Paris
1904 Silvanus P. Thompson, London
1904 S. Ramon y Cajal, Madrid
1904 M. Treub, Java
1904 J.J.H. Teal, London
1904 G. Bonnier, Paris
1902 Rt Hon. Lord Rayleigh, London
1901 C.T. Hudson, Shanklin, I.o.W.
1897 G.B. deToni, Padua
1897 A.B. Lee, Switzerland
1896 G. Retzius, Stockholm
1895 Hermann Grafzu, Strasburg
1895 C. Golgi, Padua
1894 E. van Beneden, Liege
1893 O. Hertwig, Berlin
1891 T.H. Huxley, London
1891 Sir Joseph Lister, London
1891 H. Fol, Nice
1891 E. Bornet, Paris
1890 W.C. Williamson, Manchester
1890 F. Leydig, Wurzburg
1889 J. Ralfs, Penzance
1888 S. Loven, Stockholm
1888 R. Virchow, Berlin
1888 G.J. Allman, Parkstone
1888 G. Govi, Naples
1887 P.H. Gosse, Torquay
1886 W.A. Rogers, Massachusetts
1885 J .H.L. Floegel, Holstein
1885 H. de Lacaze-Duthiers, Paris
1884 W.K. Parker, London
1883 Henri van Heurck, Antwerp
1882 L. Dippel, Darmstadt
1879 W. Nylander, Paris
1879 W. Archer, Dublin
1879 T.W. Engelmann, Utrecht
1879 T. Schwann, Liege
1879 S. Schwendener, Berlin
1879 Rev. M.J. Berkeley, Harborough
1879 P.T. Cleve, Uppsala
1879 P.J. van Beneden, Louvain
1879 P. van Tieghem, Paris
1879 P. Harting, Utrecht
1879 O. Butschli, Heidelberg
1879 Maxime Cornu, Paris
1879 M.J. Schleiden, Wiesbaden
1879 Louis Pasteur, Paris
1879 L. Ranvier, Paris
1879 L. Cienkowski, Kharkov
1879 K.A. Zittel, Munich
1879 J.J.S. Steenstrup, Copenhagen
1879 J. Leidy, Philadelphia
1879 Hamilton L. Smith, New York
1879 H. Frey, Zurich
1879 G.R. Waterhouse, London
1879 G.O. Sars, Christiana
1879 F.E. Schultze, Graz
1879 F. Ritter von Stein, Prague
1879 F. de Thumen, Austria
1879 F. Cohen, Breslau
1879 E.G. Balbiani, Paris
1879 E. Warming, Copenhagen
1879 E. Strasburger, Jena
1879 E. Metschnikoff, Odessa
1879 C.A.J.A. Oudemans, Amsterdam
1879 C. Nageli, Munich
1879 A. Weismann, Freiburg im Breisgau
1879 A. von Kolliker, Wurzburg
1879 A. Grunow, Vienna
1879 A. Dodel-Port, Zurich
1879 A. de Bary, Strasburg
1879 A. Agassiz, Massachusetts
1878 Ernst Abbe, Jena
1877 A.Renard, Louvain
1876 Frederick Kitton, Norwich
1876 Conte Ab. F. Castracane, Italy
1875 J.J. Woodward, Washington, D.C.
1872 George C. Wallich, London
1871 Richard L. Maddox, London
1870 M. Mouchet, Rochefort-sur-Mer
1870 James Hankey, New York
1869 George Busk, London
1867 John Williams, London
1851 Asa Gray, Massachusetts
1846 Filippo Pacini, Pistoia
1840 Jan E. Purkinje, Vienna
1840 Christian Gottfried, Berlin