Royal Society

The Royal Society yesterday elected the following new Fellows:

Professor David John Aldous, Professor of Statistics, University of California at Berkeley, USA; Dr Raymond Baker, Executive Director, Medicinal Chemistry, Merck Sharp and Dohme Research Laboratories, Harlow, Essex; Dr Nicholas Hamilton Barton, Darwin Trust Fellow, Institute of Cell, Animal and Population Biology, Edinburgh University; Dr Timothy Vivian Pelham Bliss, Head, Division of Neurophysiology and Neuropharmacology, National Institute of Medical Research, London; Professor Richard Ewen Borcherds, Professor of Mathematics, University of California at Berkeley, USA; Dr Geoffrey Boxshall, Senior Principal Scientific Officer, Natural History Museum, London; Professor Jeremy Patrick Brockes, Professor of Cell Biology, Ludwig Institute for Cancer Research, University College, London; Professor Anthony Edward Butterworth, Medical Research Council Scientist and Honorary Professor, Department of Pathology, Cambridge University.

Dr Henry Marshall Charlton, Reader in Endocrinology, Oxford University; Professor Anthony Kevin Cheetham, Director, Materials Research Laboratory, University of California at Santa Barbara, USA, and Professor of Solid State Chemistry, Royal Institution, London; Professor Julian Edmunds Davies, Professor of Microbiology, University of British Columbia, Canada; Dr Nicholas Barry Davies, Reader in Behavioural Ecology, Cambridge University; Professor George Guy Dodson, Professor of Biochemistry, York University, and Head, Division of Protein Structures, the National Institute for Medical Research; Professor George Petros Efstathiou, Savilian Professor of Astronomy, Oxford University.

Dr John Edwin Field, Reader in Physics, Cambridge University; Professor Graham Richard Fleming, Arthur Holly Compton Distinguished Service Professor, University of Chicago, USA; Dr Michael John Caldwell Gordon, Reader in Formal Methods, Cambridge University; Professor Dennis James Greenland, Director, Scientific Services, CAB International, Wallingford; Professor Kurt Lambeck, Professor of Geophysics, Australian National University, Canberra; Professor Brian Edward Launder, Professor of Mechanical Engineering, University of Manchester Institute of Science and Technology; Professor Andrew Gino Sita Lumsden, Professor of Developmental Neurobiology, United Medical and Dental Schools, Guy's and St Thomas's, London University; Professor Peter McCullagh, Professor of Statistics, University of Chicago, USA; Professor Dusa McDuff, Professor of Mathematics, State University of New York, Stony Brook, USA; Professor David Herman MacLennan, JW Billes Professor of Medical Research, University of Toronto, Canada; Dr Tak Wah Mak, Head, Division of Cellular and Molecular Biology, Ontario Cancer Research Institute, University of Toronto, Director and Vice-President, Amgen Research Institute, Toronto, Canada; Dr Robert Michael Moor, Head, Development and Differentiation Laboratory, ARFC Institute of Animal Physiology and Genetics Research, Babraham, Cambridge; Professor Peter John Morris, Nuffield Professor of Surgery, Oxford University.

Professor John Forster Nixon, Professor of Chemistry, Sussex University; Dr Andrew Clennel Palmer F Eng, Director, SAIC, Science and Engineering Ltd; Professor Anthony James Pawson, Senior Scientist, Samuel Lunenfeld Research Institute, Mount Sinai Hospital, Toronto, Canada, and Professor of Molecular and Developmental Biology, University of Toronto; Professor David Godfrey Pettifor, Isaac Wolfson Professor of Metallurgy, Oxford University; Professor Brian Kidd Ridley, Research Professor of Physics, Essex University; Dr Derek Charles Robinson, Research Director, AEA Technology, Fusion, Abingdon; Professor David Sherrington, Wykeham Professor of Theoretical Physics, Oxford University; Professor James Fraser Stoddart, Professor of Organic Chemistry, Birmingham University.

Dr John Tooze, Director of Support Services, Imperial Cancer Research Fund, London, and Executive Secretary, European Molecular Biology Organisation, Heidelberg, Germany; Dr Richard Henry Treisman, Principal Scientist and Head, Imperial Cancer Research Fund Transcription Laboratory, London; Professor Scott Duncan Tremaine, Director, Canadian Institute of Theoretical Astrophysics, and Professor, University of Toronto; Professor Robert Stephen White, Professor of Geophysics, Cambridge University; Professor James Gordon Williams, Professor of Mechanical Engineering, Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine, London.