List of Presidents of The Royal Society - Presidents of The Royal Society

Presidents of The Royal Society

Years President Profession
1662-1677 The Viscount Brouncker Mathematician
1677-1680 Sir Joseph Williamson Civil servant and politician
1680-1682 Sir Christopher Wren Architect
1682-1683 Sir John Hoskyns Baronet
1683-1684 Cyril Wyche Lawyer and politician
1684-1686 Samuel Pepys Naval administrator and Member of Parliament
1686-1689 The Earl of Carbery Politician
1689-1690 The Earl of Pembroke Politician
1690-1695 Sir Robert Southwell Diplomat
1695-1698 The Earl of Halifax Poet and statesman
1698-1703 The Lord Somers Jurist and statesman
1703-1727 Sir Isaac Newton Physicist, mathematician, astronomer, natural philosopher, alchemist, and theologian
1727-1741 Sir Hans Sloane Physician and collector
1741-1752 Martin Folkes Antiquarian
1752-1764 The Earl of Macclesfield Astronomer
1764-1768 The Earl of Morton Astronomer and representative peer
1768-1768 James Burrow Legal reporter
1768-1772 James West Politician and antiquarian
1772-1772 James Burrow Legal reporter
1772-1778 Sir John Pringle Physician
1778-1820 Sir Joseph Banks Naturalist and botanist
1820-1820 William Hyde Wollaston Chemist
1820-1827 Sir Humphry Davy Chemist and inventor
1827-1830 Davies Gilbert Engineer, author and politician
1830-1838 HRH The Duke of Sussex Sixth son of George III of the United Kingdom
1838-1848 The Marquess of Northampton Nobleman
1848-1854 The Earl of Rosse Astronomer
1854-1858 The Lord Wrottesley Astronomer
1858-1861 Sir Benjamin Collins Brodie, 1st Bt. Physiologist and surgeon
1861-1871 Sir Edward Sabine Astronomer, geophysicist, ornithologist and explorer
1871-1873 Sir George Biddell Airy Mathematician and astronomer
1873-1878 Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker Botanist and explorer
1878-1883 William H Spottiswoode Mathematician and physicist
1883-1885 The Rt. Hon. Thomas Henry Huxley, P.C. Biologist
1885-1890 Sir George Stokes Mathematician and physicist
1890-1895 The Lord Kelvin Mathematical physicist
1895-1900 The Lord Lister Surgeon
1900-1905 Sir William Huggins Astronomer
1905-1908 The Lord Rayleigh Physicist
1908-1913 Sir Archibald Geikie Geologist and writer
1913-1915 Sir William Crookes Chemist and physicist
1915-1920 Sir Joseph John Thomson Physicist
1920-1925 Sir Charles Scott Sherrington Neurophysiologist, histologist, bacteriologist, and pathologist
1925-1930 The Lord Rutherford of Nelson Physicist and chemist
1930-1935 Sir Frederick Gowland Hopkins Biophysicist
1935-1940 Sir William Henry Bragg Physicist, chemist and mathematician
1940-1945 Sir Henry Hallett Dale Pharmacologist and physiologist
1945-1950 Sir Robert Robinson Organic chemist
1950-1955 The Lord Adrian Electrophysiologist
1955-1960 Sir Cyril Norman Hinshelwood Physical chemist
1960-1965 The Lord Florey Pharmacologist and pathologist
1965-1970 The Lord Blackett Physicist
1970-1975 Sir Alan Lloyd Hodgkin Physiologist and Biophysicist
1975-1980 The Lord Todd Biochemist
1980-1985 Sir Andrew Huxley Physiologist and biophysicist
1985-1990 Sir George Porter Chemist
1990-1995 Sir Michael Atiyah Mathematician
1995-2000 Sir Aaron Klug Chemist and biophysicist
2000-2005 The Lord May of Oxford Chief Scientific Adviser to the UK Government
2005-2010 The Lord Rees of Ludlow Cosmologist and astrophysicist
2010-present Sir Paul Nurse Geneticist and cell biologist

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