ORGANIZATION

Founded 1799, Royal charter issued 1800.

Official Website:
http://www.rigb.org/

Founding Date:
1799

Name	Occupation	Birth	Death	Known for
John Logie Baird	Inventor	13-Aug-1888	14-Jun-1946	Television
J. D. Bernal	Physicist	10-May-1901	15-Sep-1971	X-ray crystallography
Niels Bohr	Physicist	7-Oct-1885	18-Nov-1962	Father of Quantum Theory
Lawrence Bragg	Physicist	31-Mar-1890	1-Jul-1971	Bragg's Law of diffraction
William Bragg	Physicist	2-Jul-1862	12-Mar-1942	Analyzed crystal structures
Humphry Davy	Chemist	17-Dec-1778	29-May-1829	Leading early 19th century chemist
Hans von Euler-Chelpin	Chemist	15-Feb-1873	7-Nov-1964	Enzymes of sugar fermentation
Michael Faraday	Physicist	22-Sep-1791	25-Aug-1867	Discovered electrical induction
Kenichi Fukui	Chemist	4-Oct-1918	9-Jan-1998	Frontier orbitals
Susan Greenfield	Scientist	1-Oct-1950		Brain Story
Richard Gregory	Psychologist	24-Jul-1923	17-May-2010	Optical illusions and "hands-on" science
George de Hevesy	Chemist	1-Aug-1885	5-Jul-1966	Radioisotope researcher
Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin	Chemist	12-May-1910	29-Jul-1994	Determined structure of Vitamin B12
Roald Hoffmann	Chemist	18-Jul-1937		Woodward-Hoffmann reaction
Fred Hoyle	Astronomer	24-Jun-1915	20-Aug-2001	Opposed the Big Bang but named it
Lisa Jardine	Historian	12-Apr-1944	25-Oct-2015	Francis Bacon: Discovery and the Art of Discourse
Heike Kamerlingh Onnes	Physicist	21-Sep-1853	21-Feb-1926	Liquefied helium and discovered superconductivity
John C. Kendrew	Chemist	24-Mar-1917	23-Aug-1997	Determined structure of myoglobin
Tom Kibble	Mathematician	23-Dec-1932		Zurek-Kibble theory
Edwin H. Land	Inventor	7-May-1909	1-Mar-1991	Polaroid Land Camera
Peter Medawar	Biologist	28-Feb-1915	2-Oct-1987	Acquired immunological tolerance
Max F. Perutz	Chemist	19-May-1914	6-Feb-2002	X-Ray analysis of hemoglobin
George Porter	Chemist	6-Dec-1920	31-Aug-2002	Rapid chemical and biological processes
Lord Rayleigh	Physicist	12-Nov-1842	30-Jun-1919	Why the sky is blue
Benjamin Count Rumford	Scientist	26-Mar-1753	21-Aug-1814	Established the Rumford Medal
Ernest Rutherford	Physicist	30-Aug-1871	19-Oct-1937	Father of nuclear physics
Harold Spencer Jones	Astronomer	29-Mar-1890	3-Nov-1960	10th Royal Astronomer of England
J. J. Thomson	Physicist	18-Dec-1856	30-Aug-1940	Discovered the electron
Harold C. Urey	Chemist	29-Apr-1893	5-Jan-1981	Discovered Deuterium
Vincent du Vigneaud	Chemist	18-May-1901	11-Dec-1978	Synthesized vasopressin and oxytocin

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