ORGANIZATION

Scottish scientific and literary society, founded 1783.

Official Website:
http://www.royalsoced.org.uk/

Name	Occupation	Birth	Death	Known for
Louis Agassiz	Paleontologist	28-May-1807	14-Dec-1873	Ichthyologist at Harvard
John James Audubon	Naturalist	26-Apr-1785	27-Jan-1851	Illustrated Birds of America
Derek Barton	Chemist	8-Sep-1918	16-Mar-1998	Conformational analysis
Sune K. Bergström	Scientist	10-Jan-1916	15-Aug-2004	Prostaglandins
Niels Bohr	Physicist	7-Oct-1885	18-Nov-1962	Father of Quantum Theory
Jules Bordet	Scientist	13-Jun-1870	6-Apr-1961	Researched antibodies and antigens
Nathaniel Bowditch	Astronomer	26-Mar-1773	17-Mar-1838	American Practical Navigator
Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon	Naturalist	7-Sep-1707	16-Apr-1788	Histoire Naturelle
James Chadwick	Physicist	20-Oct-1891	24-Jul-1974	Discovered the neutron
Thomas Chalmers	Religion	17-Mar-1780	30-May-1847	Free Church of Scotland
William Cochran	Physicist	30-Jul-1922	28-Aug-2003	Crystallography
John Dalton	Chemist	6-Sep-1766	27-Jul-1844	Early proponent of Atomic Theory
Henrik Dam	Scientist	21-Feb-1895	Apr-1976	Discovered Vitamin K
Charles Darwin	Naturalist	12-Feb-1809	19-Apr-1882	Proposed theory of evolution via natural selection
George Darwin	Astronomer	9-Jul-1845	7-Dec-1912	Evolution of the Sun-Earth-Moon system
Jean-Baptiste-André Dumas	Chemist	14-Jul-1800	10-Apr-1884	Pioneer of organic chemistry
Arthur Eddington	Astronomer	28-Dec-1882	22-Nov-1944	Eddington luminosity
King Edward VIII	Royalty	23-Jun-1894	28-May-1972	King of England, 1936
Albert Einstein	Physicist	14-Mar-1879	18-Apr-1955	Theory of relativity
Gerhard Ertl	Chemist	10-Oct-1936		Auto emissions and the ozone layer
Michael Faraday	Physicist	22-Sep-1791	25-Aug-1867	Discovered electrical induction
Enrico Fermi	Physicist	29-Sep-1901	29-Nov-1954	First controlled nuclear chain reaction
Alexander Fleming	Scientist	6-Aug-1881	11-Mar-1955	Discovered penicillin
Benjamin Franklin	Diplomat	17-Jan-1706	17-Apr-1790	American founding father
Carl Friedrich Gauss	Mathematician	30-Apr-1777	23-Feb-1855	Perhaps the greatest German mathematician
Joseph-Louis Gay-Lussac	Chemist	6-Dec-1778	9-May-1850	Researched gases, etc.
Stephen Jay Gould	Biologist	10-Sep-1941	20-May-2002	Evolutionary biologist and paleontologist
Richard Gregory	Psychologist	24-Jul-1923		Optical illusions and "hands-on" science
Jacques-Salomon Hadamard	Mathematician	8-Dec-1865	17-Oct-1963	Prime number theorem
Marshall Hall	Doctor	18-Feb-1790	11-Aug-1857	Theory of reflex action
John Herschel	Astronomer	7-Mar-1792	11-May-1871	Discovered many moons of Saturn
Peter Higgs	Physicist	29-May-1929		Higgs boson and Higgs field
George W. Hill	Astronomer	3-Mar-1838	16-Apr-1914	A New Theorie of Jupiter and Saturn
Joseph Dalton Hooker	Botanist	30-Jun-1817	10-Dec-1911	Genera Plantarum
Thomas Jefferson	Head of State	13-Apr-1743	4-Jul-1826	3rd US President, 1801-09
James Prescott Joule	Physicist	24-Dec-1818	11-Oct-1889	English physicist, Joule's Law
Jacobus C. Kapteyn	Astronomer	19-Jan-1851	18-Jan-1922	Star streaming
Lord Kelvin	Physicist	26-Jun-1824	17-Dec-1907	Illustrated 2nd Law of Thermodynamics
Samuel P. Langley	Astronomer	22-Aug-1834	2-Feb-1906	Heavier-than-air flying machine
Leopold I	Royalty	16-Dec-1790	10-Dec-1865	First King of the Belgians
Tullio Levi-Civita	Mathematician	29-Mar-1873	29-Dec-1941	Explored tensor calculus and PDE's
Joseph Lister	Doctor	5-Apr-1827	10-Feb-1912	Pioneer of antiseptic surgery
John Macleod	Scientist	6-Sep-1876	16-Mar-1935	Helped discover insulin
Dmitri Mendeleev	Chemist	8-Feb-1834	2-Feb-1907	Periodic Table of the Elements
Keith Moffatt	Mathematician	12-Apr-1935		Fluid dynamics
Benjamin Peirce	Mathematician	4-Apr-1809	10-Jun-1880	Idempotent and nilpotent
Henri Poincaré	Mathematician	29-Apr-1854	17-Jul-1912	Poincaré Conjecture
John C. Polanyi	Chemist	23-Jan-1929		Infrared chemiluminescence
Lord Robertson	Government	12-Apr-1946		NATO Secretary General, 1999-2003
Ernest Rutherford	Physicist	30-Aug-1871	19-Oct-1937	Father of Nuclear Physics
Sir Walter Scott	Author	15-Aug-1771	21-Sep-1832	Ivanhoe
Glenn Seaborg	Physicist	19-Apr-1912	25-Feb-1999	Co-Discoverer of Plutonium
Alfred Lord Tennyson	Poet	6-Aug-1809	6-Oct-1892	The Charge of the Light Brigade
D'Arcy Thompson	Biologist	2-May-1860	21-Jun-1948	On Growth and Form
Vincent du Vigneaud	Chemist	18-May-1901	11-Dec-1978	Synthesized vasopressin and oxytocin
James Watt	Inventor	19-Jan-1736	19-Aug-1819	Invented modern steam engine
Wilhelm Weber	Physicist	24-Oct-1804	23-Jun-1891	Student of electromagnetism
Charles Wheatstone	Physicist	6-Feb-1802	19-Oct-1875	Inventor of the telegraph

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