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, Section Chairs, Chairs of Interest Groups and Chairs of governance bodies reporting to Council.
2008
Lord Ballyedmond HonFRSC
Professor Martin Chalfie HonFRSC
Professor Dame Louise Johnson HonFRSC FRS
Professor Roger Y. Tsien PhD HonFRSC
Mr Eric Walters HonFRSC
2007
Professor Chunli Bai HonFRSC
Professor Gerhard Ertl HonFRSC
Professor Dieter Fenske HonFRSC
Mr Jim Ratcliffe HonFRSC
2006
Dr Adam Hart-Davis MA HonFRSC
Professor Roger D Kornberg HonFRSC FRS
Professor Goverdhan Mehta MSc PhD CChem HonFRSC FRS
Professor Teruaki Mukaiyama HonFRSC
Professor Herbert Roesky DChem HonFRSC
Lord David Sainsbury of Turville HonFRSC FRSC
2005
Mr Heston Blumenthal OBE HonFRSC
Dr Yves Chauvin HonFRSC
Professor Robert H Grubbs PhD HonFRSC
Professor Satoshi Omura PhD HonFRSC
Professor Richard R Schrock HonFRSC
Professor George M Whitesides PhD HonFRSC
2004
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
2003
Professor Sir Richard Friend HonFRSC
Professor Sir Peter Mansfield BSc PhD HonFRSC
2002
Professor Henri B Kagan HonFRSC
Sir Tom McKillop BSc PhD HonFRSC FRSE
Professor Sir John Sulston HonFRSC
Professor Kurt Wuthrich HonFRSC FRSE
Professor Ahmed H Zewail HonFRSC
2001
Lord Edmund Browne HonFRSC FRS
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 FRS
Dr Frederick Sanger HonFRSC
1998
Professor Sir John Cadogan CBE BSc PhD DSc CChem HonFRSC FRS
Sir Aaron Klug OM PRS HonFRSC FRSE
Lord Jack Lewis BSc MSc PhD CChem HonFRSC FRS
Professor George A Olah PhD HonFRSC FRS
Sir Richard Sykes PhD DSc HonFRSC FRS
Professor Sir John Walker HonFRSC
1997
Professor Karl B Sharpless BA PhD HonFRSC
1996
Professor Ronald C D Breslow MA PhD HonFRSC FRS
Professor Walter Kaminsky HonFRSC
1995
Professor Roald Hoffmann HonFRSC
1994
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 OM HonFRSC FRSE 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 Riley Schaeffer PhD HonFRSC
Sir Peter Walters HonFRSC
1983
Professor William N Lipscomb HonFRSC
Dr Gilbert Stork HonFRSC FRS
1981
Mr John R Ruck Keene CBE MA HonFRSC
1980
Professor Elias J Corey PhD HonFRSC FRS
Professor Manfred Eigen HonFRSC
Professor Albert Eschenmoser HonFRSC
Professor Rolf Huisgen HonFRSC
Professor Dr Heinrich Noth HonFRSC
1978
Baroness Margaret Thatcher OM BSc MA HonFRSC FRS
1952
HRH The Duke of Edinburgh HonFRSC
