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Biographical Memoirs of Fellows of the Royal Society

A unique compilation of memoirs celebrating the lives and scientific achievements of Fellows of the Royal Society
<p><b>Cover</b><br>Oliver Smithies (1925 – 2017) was a Nobel-prize winning geneticist and physiologist. Photograph credit: UNC School of Medicine.</p>

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Alan Mathison Turing, 1912-1954

The sudden death of Alan Turing on 7 June 1954 deprived mathematics and science of a great original mind at the height of its power. After some years of scientific indecision, since the end of the war, Turing had found, in his chemical theory of growth ...Read more
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Stephen William Hawking CH CBE. 8 January 1942—14 March 2018

Stephen Hawking's contributions to the understanding of gravity, black holes and cosmology were truly immense. They began with the singularity theorems in the 1960s followed by his discovery that black holes have an entropy and consequently a finite ...Read more
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Francis Harry Compton Crick OM. 8 June 1916 — 28 July 2004

The first half of the twentieth century saw a profound change in our understanding of the chemistry underlying biology. We came to learn in detail how the small molecules upon which life is based are interconverted by specific enzymes, a web which ...Read more
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Alexander Fleming, 1881-1955

Alexander Fleming was the youngest of four children born to an Ayrshire farmer, Hugh Fleming, by his second wife Grace (née Morton) on 6 August 1881. His education, up to the age of twelve, was at the village school (Darvel) and, for a further two years, ...Read more

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Biographical Memoirs of Fellows of the Royal Society

Carefully researched and creatively written memoirs of eminent mathematical, physical, biological and medical scientists and engineers. Often written by a close colleague or research collaborator, each memoir provides an accessible overview of the subject’s scientific achievements, as well as shining a light on the human side of scientific success.

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