List of presidents of the Royal Society
Presidents of the Royal Society
Table:
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

Sir Venkatraman Ramakrishnan
Biophysicist

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