RSC Honorary Fellows

Who are our Honorary Fellows?

RSC Council may admit as an Honorary Fellow distinguished persons who meet the following criteria:

distinguished chemical scientists outside the United Kingdom who have made a significant contribution to the chemical sciences
distinguished scientists in the United Kingdom whose work, outside chemistry, has had a significant impact on the chemical sciences
chemical scientists in the United Kingdom who are Nobel Laureates
other distinguished persons whose activities have been of significant benefit to the chemical community

Nominations are invited annually from Members of Council, Division Presidents, Section Chairs and Chairs of Interest Groups.

2012

Professor Brian Kobilka HonFRSC
Professor Robert J Lefkowitz HonFRSC
Sir Gregory P Winter CBE HonFRSC FRS

2011

Dr Quentin Cooper HonFRSC
Dr Yusuf Khwaja Hamied HonFRSC
Dr Yuan Tseh Lee HonFRSC
Professor Dan Shechtman HonFRSC
Sir J Fraser Stoddart CChem HonFRSC HonFRSE FRS
Dr Joan Selverstone Valentine HonFRSC

2010

Mr Bill Bryson OBE HonFRSC
Professor Andre Geim HonFRSC FRS
Professor Sir Alec Jeffreys HonFRSC FRS
Professor Ei-ichi Negishi HonFRSC
Professor Konstantin Novoselov HonFRSC
Professor Sir Paul Nurse HonFRSC FRSE FRS
Professor Akira Suzuki HonFRSC

2009

Professor Christian Andr� Amatore HonFRSC
Professor Allen Joseph Bard HonFRSC
Dr Brian Iddon CChem HonFRSC
Dr Venkatraman Ramakrishnan HonFRSC FRS
Professor Thomas Arthur Steitz HonFRSC
Professor Ada E Yonath HonFRSC

2008

Lord Ballyedmond HonFRSC
Professor Martin Chalfie HonFRSC
Professor Roger Yonchien Tsien HonFRSC ForMemRS

2007

Professor Chunli Bai HonFRSC
Professor Gerhard Ertl HonFRSC HonFRSE
Professor Dieter Fenske HonFRSC
Mr Jim Ratcliffe HonFRSC

2006

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

2005

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

2004

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

2003

Professor Sir Richard Friend HonFRSC FRS
Professor Sir Peter Mansfield HonFRSC FRS

2002

Professor Henri B Kagan HonFRSC
Sir Thomas Fulton Wilson McKillop HonFRSC FRSE FRS
Professor Sir John Edward Sulston HonFRSC FRS
Professor Kurt Wuthrich HonFRSC HonFRSE ForMemRS
Professor Ahmed Hassan Zewail HonFRSC ForMemRS

2001

Lord Browne of Madingley HonFRSC FRS
Professor Richard N Zare HonFRSC ForMemRS

2000

Sir John Warcup Cornforth CBE HonFRSC FRS
Professor Jack David Dunitz HonFRSC FRS
Professor Sir Harry Kroto CChem HonFRSC HonFRSE FRS
Professor Ryoji Noyori HonFRSC ForMemRS
Dr Frederick Sanger OM CH CBE HonFRSC HonFRSE FRS

1998

Professor Sir John Ivan George Cadogan CBE CChem HonFRSC FRSE FRS
Sir Aaron Klug OM PRS HonFRSC HonFRSE FRS
Lord Lewis of Newnham Kt CChem HonFRSC FRS
Professor George A Olah HonFRSC FRS
Sir Richard Brook Sykes HonFRSC FRS
Professor Sir John Walker HonFRSC FRS

1997

Professor Karl B Sharpless HonFRSC

1996

Professor Ronald C D Breslow HonFRSC FRS
Professor Walter Kaminsky HonFRSC

1995

Professor Roald Hoffmann HonFRSC ForMemRS

1994

Dr Mary L Good CChem HonFRSC

1993

Miss Helen P Sharman OBE CChem HonFRSC

1990

Dr Alfred R Bader 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 HonFRSC FRS

1989

Professor Chintamani N R Rao CChem HonFRSC FRS

1987

Professor David Parker Craig CChem HonFRSC FRS
Professor Jack Halpern HonFRSC FRS
Professor Dudley R Herschbach HonFRSC
Professor Jean-Marie Lehn HonFRSC ForMemRS
Sir Robert Malpas CBE HonFRSC

1986

HRH Princess Chulabhorn CChem HonFRSC

1985

Professor Duilio G Arigoni HonFRSC ForMemRS
Professor Carl Djerassi HonFRSC ForMemRS
Dr Reuben S Leach HonFRSC
Professor Riley Schaeffer HonFRSC
Sir Peter Walters HonFRSC

1983

Professor Gilbert Stork HonFRSC ForMemRS

1981

Mr John R Ruck Keene CBE HonFRSC

1980

Professor Elias J Corey HonFRSC ForMemRS
Professor Manfred Eigen HonFRSC HonFRSE ForMemRS
Professor Albert Eschenmoser HonFRSC ForMemRS
Professor Rolf Huisgen HonFRSC
Professor Dr Heinrich Noth HonFRSC