as well. We don't know yet what's going to happen in the United States. The Royal Society in London, The British Medical Association, The French Academy of Science and Medicine,
From the beginning of oceanography as a multidisciplinary science about 1870, that was the Challenger expedition. The Royal Society sent HMS Challenger around the world with scientists. I think it was a three-year expedition.
Well, I think the reason is that we had this big shift that took place in the 19th century where we went from this sort of network topology The Royal Society came out of meetings held in coffeehouses by scientists.
Actually, the scientists were very against it when Warnock's report came out. It was-- the Royal Society didn't like it. There was all sorts of pushback.
He's a professor of the philosophy department at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver, and in 2013, was elected a fellow of the Royal Society of Canada. As an undergraduate, he was a student of Robert Thurman, noted Buddhist scholar.
was being used in this machine. And he describes the Royal Society Computing Machine Laboratory, which sounds very grand. So Professor Williams says this, "a fine sounding phrase, but what was the reality?
For this work, Demis, alongside John Jumper and David Baker, was awarded the 2024 Nobel Prize in Chemistry. He's also a fellow of the Royal Society and the Royal Academy of Engineering. And in 2024, he was knighted for services to artificial intelligence. He has also been named the Time 100 list of the world's most influential people multiple times,
The system refuses. Now let's think about an invention or a development which took place just a couple of months ago in relation to chatbots where a Babylon system was said to be able to pass the Royal Society of General Practitioners' general exam better than the average score of its human practitioners. Imagine living in a world where chatbots are not just better at talking about medicine and diagnosing conditions, but are better at talking
He spiced up his paper, made it much more compelling. Ultimately presented it to the Royal Society of Edinburgh. And those ideas went on to influence Darwin and Darwin's theory of natural selection.
He's an emblem of and strong proponent shouting for human rights and freedom of speech. He's a fellow of the Royal Society of literature and in 2007 was knighted for his services to literature. So again, please welcome Salman Rushdie.
And one reason why 1729 is special is that it's called a Harshad number. He became a Fellow of the Royal Society -- one of the youngest Fellows of the Royal Society .
Professor Richard Dawkins was the first holder of the Charles Simonyi Chair in Public Understanding of Science at the University of Oxford. He's a fellow member of the Royal Society and the Royal Society of Literature. And he's a prominent scientist and evolutionary biologist and perhaps one of the world's most outspoken atheists.
a four-part series for the BBC called "The Story of Maths." Marcus received an Order of the British Empire in 2010 and was also made a fellow of the Royal Society in 2016. Welcome, Marcus. So I thought maybe we'd start out with you telling us a little bit more about your background.
And there was a lot of-- the trust in scientists somehow started to vanish because there wasn't any communication. So actually my funding body at the time was the Royal Society . I had this wonderful 10-year fellowship from the Royal Society to do research.
So actually my funding body at the time was the Royal Society . I had this wonderful 10-year fellowship from the Royal Society to do research. And when I started putting my head above the parapet and writing articles in the newspaper, eventually writing some books, doing radio,
and an important part of our job, to make sure that society understands the impact, for example, machine learning is going to have. So I was on a committee at the Royal Society with Demis Hassabis and various others where we looked at the impact that this new technology is going to have and tried to forward scope such that society will be aware and be able to make decisions about legal issues of the way machine learning
But what I saw-- and I sat next to Demis in this meeting. And we actually both got elected to be Fellows of the Royal Society about the same time. And I kind of joked to him and said, well, how long is it before you're going to have a piece of AI elected for having
And I kind of joked to him and said, well, how long is it before you're going to have a piece of AI elected for having proved a great theorem in mathematics to the Royal Society ? And he said, watch this space.
and where you could vary the energy, so that you could vary how you're interacting with the atom or with the material. And so Rutherford at this point becomes the president of the Royal Society . He's already famous. He's already won a Nobel Prize.
But of the few tubes that survive Haney's tender ministrations here, most of the carbon inside had either evaporated or that it's soft and scaly, as Haney reports to the British Society or the Royal Society . But there are three tubes-- there are three tubes that have the small crystal-like diamonds that are inside of them.
So here's an article from the Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society .
it was I think the head of the Royal Society big scientific institution in in
Now, the Royal Society in London was a private gentleman's club.
He's a Fellow at the British Academy and at the Royal Society of Edinburgh.
And he gave a presentation in 1783 at the Royal Society in England where he discussed these ideas.
every home um um of course the president of the Royal Society they thought that
Society not only that he was made a fellow of the Royal Society in this
But he decided that the most important thing in science at that point in time, and what he was going to talk about in his president's speech, as the president of the Royal Society , was to say this is what we really need and we really need a device which can do this. And I can speak a bit about the different attempts being made to do that if you like.
I was hiding at the back of a scientific conference at the Royal Society in London when a cuddly looking cat with unusually big feet
And he's also recently been inducted as a fellow of the Royal Society of Canada.
And my favorite example, the Royal Society grows out of coffeehouse discussions by great scientists in Oxford and then later in London as well.
in science and tech. It was a royal society in London that was one of the places that became the arena for the development of modern science as we understand it today. So this
read as-- is associated with." So he knew he was pulling a fast one over the readers or his fellow members of the Royal Society .
There was a very visionary paper in Nature by Paul Nurse, the former president of the Royal Society , called "Life, Logic, and Information."
And that was just after 661, which was when the Royal Society of London was founded.
So they got back from that trip, and the Royal Society that had funded them, based on the recommendation of Halley
But all scientists of these two elite groups, the Royal Society and the National Academy, only about 10% are religious.
Marie Boas Hall she was the biographer of Henry Oldenburg who was the first editor of the Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society . She describes how Oldenburg would
Because, for example, in the UK, there's a 17th century scientific society called the Royal Society .
She is the recipient of several awards, including a TED Senior Fellowship and selection to the College of the Royal Society of Canada.
And then, particularly, to write a book about it? Yeah, exactly. Well partly, it was being on this committee at the Royal Society that drew me into the extraordinary phase change I think has happened in the way that code is being written.
Now let's get to a smart person who is not a jerk, one of this country's greatest scientists, Humphry Davy, founder of the Royal Society .
the elite scientists of the United States and the equivalent elite scientists of the British Commonwealth, the Royal Society .
Now, unlike Bayes, Richard Price was famous in his day. This is a royal society portrait done by a famous painter, Benjamin West. He later becomes a famous supporter of the American