Who are our Honorary Fellows?

Honorary fellowships are awarded by RSC Council to distinguished scientists who have made an outstanding contribution to the chemical sciences.

They can also be awarded for work outside of chemistry if it has had a significant impact on the chemical sciences.

Honorary fellowships can also be awarded to other distinguished persons whose activities have been of significant benefit to the chemical community. 

2008

Professor Chunli Bai HonFRSC
Mr Jim Ratcliffe HonFRSC

2007

Professor Teruaki Mukaiyama HonFRSC
Dr Adam Hart-Davis MA HonFRSC
Professor Herbert Roesky DChem HonFRSC
Professor Goverdhan Mehta MSc PhD CChem HonFRSC FRS
Lord David Sainsbury of Turville HonFRSC 
Professor Roger D Kornberg HonFRSC

2006

Mr Heston Blumenthal OBE HonFRSC
Dr Yves Chauvin HonFRSC
Professor Robert H Grubbs HonFRSC
Professor Satoshi Omura PhD HonFRSC
Professor Richard R Schrock HonFRSC
Professor George M Whitesides HonFRSC

2005

Dr Peter Agre HonFRSC 
Professor Aaron J Ciechanover HonFRSC 
Professor John B Fenn HonFRSC
Professor Harry B Gray HonFRSC
Professor Avram Hershko HonFRSC
Professor Roderick MacKinnon HonFRSC 
Professor Irwin Rose HonFRSC

2004

Professor Sir Richard Friend HonFRSC 
Professor Sir Peter Mansfield BSc PhD HonFRSC

2003

Professor Neil Bartlett HonFRSC 
Professor Henri B Kagan HonFRSC
Professor Sir John Sulston HonFRSC 
Professor Kurt Wuthrich HonFRSC FRSE 
Professor Ahmed H Zewail HonFRSC

2002

Sir Tom McKillop BSc PhD HonFRSC FRSE

2001

Lord Edmund Browne HonFRSC 
Dr Frederick Sanger HonFRSC 
Professor Richard N Zare PhD HonFRSC FRS

2000

Sir John Cornforth CBE HonFRSC FRS 
Professor Jack D Dunitz BSc PhD HonFRSC FRS 
Professor Sir Harry Kroto BSc PhD CChem HonFRSC FRSE FRS 
Professor Ryoji Noyori PhD HonFRSC 

1999

Professor Sir John Cadogan CBE BSc PhD DSc CChem HonFRSC FRS 
Lord Jack Lewis BSc MSc PhD CChem HonFRSC FRS 
Professor George A Olah PhD HonFRSC FRS 
Sir Richard Sykes PhD DSc HonFRSC FRS

1998

Sir Aaron Klug OM PRS HonFRSC FRSE 
Professor Sir John Walker HonFRSC

1997

Professor Ronald C D Breslow MA PhD HonFRSC FRS 
Professor Walter Kaminsky HonFRSC 
Professor Karl B Sharpless BA PhD HonFRSC

1996

Professor Roald Hoffmann HonFRSC

1995

Dr Mary L Good BSc MSc CChem HonFRSC

1993

Miss Helen P Sharman OBE BSc CChem HonFRSC

1990

Dr Alfred R Bader BSc MSc HonFRSC 
Dr Wolfgang Fritsche CChem HonFRSC 
Professor Corwin H Hansch HonFRSC 
Professor Rudolf A Marcus HonFRSC 
Professor Federico Mayor Zaragoza HonFRSC 
Professor Oleg M Nefedov HonFRSC 
Professor John C Polanyi MSc PhD DSc LLD HonFRSC FRS 
Professor Sir Frederick Warner HonFRSC FRS

1989

Sir James Black HonFRSC FRS 
Professor Chintamani N R Rao PhD DSc LLD CChem HonFRSC FRS  

1987

Professor David P Craig PhD DSc CChem HonFRSC FRS 
Professor Jack Halpern BSc PhD HonFRSC FRS
Professor Dudley R Herschbach PhD HonFRSC 
Professor Jean-Marie Lehn PhD HonFRSC 
Sir Robert Malpas CBE HonFRSC

1986

HRH Princess Chulabhorn BSc PhD CChem HonFRSC

1985

Professor Duilio G Arigoni DSc HonFRSC FRS 
Professor Carl Djerassi AB PhD HonFRSC 
Dr Reuben S Leach BSc HonFRSC 
Professor Lamberto Malatesta HonFRSC 
Professor John H Northrop BS AM PhD ScD HonFRSC 
Professor Guy Ourisson PhD DSc HonFRSC 
Professor Riley Schaeffer PhD HonFRSC 
Sir Peter Walters HonFRSC

1983

Professor William N Lipscomb HonFRSC 
Dr Gilbert Stork HonFRSC FRS

1982

Mr John R Ruck Keene CBE MA HonFRSC

1981

Professor Elias J Corey PhD HonFRSC FRS 
Professor Manfred Eigen HonFRSC 
Professor Albert Eschenmoser HonFRSC 
Professor Rolf Huisgen HonFRSC
Professor Dr Heinrich Noth HonFRSC

1979

Baroness Margaret Thatcher OM BSc MA HonFRSC FRS

1952

HRH The Duke of Edinburgh HonFRSC