The Royal Society, formally the Royal Society of London for Improving Natural Knowledge, is a learned society and the national academy of sciences of the United Kingdom. Founded on 28 November 1660 and granted a royal charter by King Charles II, it is the oldest continuously existing scientific academy in the world. Its Fellows are elected by existing Fellows and may use the postnominal FRS, and it also appoints foreign members. Since 1967 the society has been based at Carlton House Terrace in central London. In this atlas it appears as the institution that elected early mathematicians and inventors as Fellows, such as Thomas Bayes and Charles Stanhope, the 3rd Earl Stanhope.
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has been based at 6–9 Carlton House Terrace, a Grade I listed building in central London
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is a learned society and the United Kingdom's national academy of sciences
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Founded on 28 November 1660, it was granted a royal charter by King Charles II
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has been based at 6-9 Carlton House Terrace, a Grade I listed building in central London
View the SourceCarl Friedrich Gauss (Wikipedia)
Affiliates: Carl Friedrich Gauss, HonoursQuote, Affiliates: Carl Friedrich Gauss, Honours
the Royal Society of London (1804)
Thomas Bayes (Wikipedia)
Affiliates: Thomas Bayes, BiographyQuote, Affiliates: Thomas Bayes, Biography
Bayes was elected as a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1742.
Charles Stanhope, 3rd Earl Stanhope (Wikipedia)
Affiliates: Charles Stanhope, 3rd Earl Stanhope, Business, science and writingQuote, Affiliates: Charles Stanhope, 3rd Earl Stanhope, Business, science and writing
He was elected a fellow of the Royal Society so early as November 1772
Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz (MacTutor)
Affiliates: Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz, Paris and London, 1673Quote, Affiliates: Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz, Paris and London, 1673
The Royal Society of London elected Leibniz a fellow on 9 April 1673.
John Machin (Wikipedia)
Affiliates: John Machin, History, Royal SocietyQuote, Affiliates: John Machin, History, Royal Society
John Machin served as secretary of the Royal Society from 1718 to 1747.
MacTutor History of Mathematics: Charles Babbage (MacTutor)
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Fellow of the Royal Society 1816
MacTutor History of Mathematics: Gabriel Cramer (MacTutor)
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Fellow of the Royal Society 1749
Adrien-Marie Legendre (Wikipedia)
Affiliates: Adrien-Marie Legendre, LifeQuote, Affiliates: Adrien-Marie Legendre, Life
In 1789, he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society.
Peter Barlow (mathematician) (Wikipedia)
Affiliates: Peter Barlow, Body, honoursQuote, Affiliates: Peter Barlow, Body, honours
In 1823, he was made a fellow of the Royal Society.
Charles Hutton (Wikipedia)
Affiliates: Charles Hutton, Body, honoursQuote, Affiliates: Charles Hutton, Body, honours
He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in July, 1774
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