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New Ïã¸ÛÁùºÏ²Ê Fellows of the Royal Society

15 May 2009

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Royal Society logo casa.ucl.ac.uk/people/person.asp?ID=2" target="_self">Professor Michael Batty
  • Five Ïã¸ÛÁùºÏ²Ê academics today join the ranks of the Fellows of the Royal Society, in recognition of their exceptional contributions to society.

    The new Fellows from Ïã¸ÛÁùºÏ²Ê are:

    • Michael Batty, Director of the Ïã¸ÛÁùºÏ²Ê Centre for Advanced Spatial Analysis and Ïã¸ÛÁùºÏ²Ê Bartlett Professor of Planning
    • John Hardy, Professor of Neuroscience (Ïã¸ÛÁùºÏ²Ê Institute of Neurology)
    • Peter Isaacson, Professor in the Ïã¸ÛÁùºÏ²Ê Research Department of Pathology
    • Jonathan Tennyson, Massey Professor of Physics (Ïã¸ÛÁùºÏ²Ê Physics & Astronomy), and
    • John Wood, Professor of Molecular Neurobiology (Ïã¸ÛÁùºÏ²Ê Wolfson Institute for Biomedical Science).

    As Fellows of the UK's national academy of science, these leaders in the fields of science, engineering and medicine join the likes of Isaac Newton, Charles Darwin and Stephen Hawking.

    The new Fellows are at the cutting edge of science worldwide. Their achievements represent the vast contribution science makes to society. They join an outstanding group of over 1,400 Fellows and Foreign Members of the Royal Society, and all rank among the international leaders in their field.

    Ïã¸ÛÁùºÏ²Ê President and Provost Professor Malcolm Grant said: "The whole Ïã¸ÛÁùºÏ²Ê community takes great pride in seeing the achievements of its outstanding scientists reflected in these elections to the Fellowship of the Royal Society."

    To find out more about the work of the new Fellows and the Royal Society, follow the links at the top of this article.

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