List of presidents of the Royal Society
Presidents of the Royal Society

List of presidents of the Royal Society

Section Title: Presidents of the Royal Society
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Years	President	Profession

1662–1677	-	The Viscount Brouncker	Mathematician

1677–1680	-	Sir Joseph Williamson	Civil servant and politician

1680–1682	-	Sir Christopher Wren	Architect, astronomer and physicist

1682–1683	-	Sir John Hoskyns, Bt	Lawyer

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	-	Charles Montagu	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, Bt	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, Bt	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, 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	-	Thomas Henry Huxley	Biologist

1885–1890	-	Sir George Stokes	Mathematician and physicist

1890–1895	-	Sir William Thomson	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	-	Sir Howard Florey	Pharmacologist and pathologist

1965–1970	-	Patrick Blackett (The Lord Blackett after 1969)	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	-	Sir Robert May (The Lord May of Oxford after 2001)	Mathematical Biologist

2005–2010	-	The Lord Rees of Ludlow	Cosmologist and astrophysicist

2010–2015	-	Sir Paul Nurse	Geneticist and cell biologist

2015–present	-	Venkatraman Ramakrishnan	Biophysicist

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