President of Royal Society

The president of Royal Society (PRS) is elected with the head of the Royal Society of London. The station is allotted has a member of the scientific community of the the British Commonwealth for one five years period, and represents one of the highest distinctions for a scientist.

Presidents of Royal Society

1662-1677 William Brouncker
1677-1680 Joseph Williamson
1680-1682 Christopher Wren
1682-1683 John Hoskins
1683-1684 Cyril Wyche
1684-1686 Samuel Pepys
1686-1689 John Vaughan
1689-1690 Thomas Herbert
1690-1695 Robert Southwell
1695-1698 Charles Montagu
1698-1703 John Somers
1703-1727 Isaac Newton
1727-1741 Hans Sloane
1741-1752 Martin Folkes
1752-1764 George Parker
1764-1768 Douglas James
1768-1768 James Burrow
1768-1772 James West
1772-1778 John Pringle
1778-1820 Joseph Banks
1820-1820 William Hyde Wollaston
1820-1827 Davy Humphry
1827-1830 Davies Gilbert
1830-1838 Augustus Frederick
1838-1848 Spencer Compton
1848-1854 William Parsons
1854-1858 John Wrottesley
1858-1861 Benjamin Collins Brodie
1861-1871 Edward Sabine
1871-1873 George Biddell Airy
1873-1878 Joseph Dalton Hooker
1878-1883 William Spottiswoode
1883-1885 Thomas Henry Huxley
1885-1890 George Gabriel Stokes
1890-1895 William Thomson
1895-1900 Joseph To list
1900-1905 William Huggins
1905-1908 John William Strutt Rayleigh
1908-1913 Archibald Geikie
1913-1915 William Crookes
1915-1920 Joseph John Thomson
1920-1925 Charles Scott Sherrington
1925-1930 Ernest Rutherford
1930-1935 Frederick Hopkins
1935-1940 William Henry Bragg
1940-1945 Henry Hallett Paves
1945-1950 Robert Robinson
1950-1955 Edgar Douglas Adrian
1955-1960 Cyril Norman Hinshelwood
1960-1965 Howard Florey
1965-1970 Patrick Blackett
1970-1975 Alan Hodgkin
1975-1980 Alexander R. Todd
1980-1985 Andrew Huxley
1985-1990 George Porter
1990-1995 Michael Atiyah
1995-2000 Aaron Klug
2000-2005 Bob May
2005 Martin Rees

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Presidents of Royal Society (in English)

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