Years President Profession
1662-1677- The Viscount Brouncker- Mathematician
1677-1680- Sir Joseph Williamson- Civil servant and politician 1680-1682- Sir Christopher Wren-Architect
1682-1683- Sir John Hoskyns- Baronet
1683-1684- Cyril Wyche- Lawyer & Politician
1684-1686- Samuel Pepys- Naval Administrator & Member of Parliament
1686-1689- The Earl of Carbery- Politician
1689-1690- The Earl of Pembroke- Politician
1690-1695- Sir Robert Southwell- Diplomat
1695-1698- The Earl of Halifax- Poet & Statesman
1698-1703- The Lord Somers- Jurist & Statesman
1703-1727- Sir Isaac Newton- Physicist, Astronomer, Natural philosopher, Mathematician Alchemist, & theologian
1727-1741- Sir Hans Sloane- Physician and collector
1741-1752- Martin Folkes-Antiquarian
1752-1764- The Earl of Macclesfield- Astronomer
1764-1768- The Earl of Morton- Astronomer & Representative Peer
1768-1768- James Burrow- Legal Reporter
1768-1772- James West- Politician & Antiquarian
1772-1772- James Burrow- Legal reporter
1772-1778- Sir John Pringle- Physician
1778-1820- Sir Joseph Banks- Naturalist & Botanist
1820-1820- William Hyde Wollaston- Chemist
1820-1827- Sir Humphry Davy- Chemist and inventor
1827-1830- Davies Gilbert- Engineer, Politician & Author
1830-1838- HRH The Duke of Sussex- Sixth Son of George III of the United Kingdom
1838-1848- The Marquess of Northampton- Nobleman
1848-1854- The Earl of Rosse- Astronomer
1854-1858- The Lord Wrottesley- Astronomer
1858-1861- Sir Benjamin Collins Brodie, 1st Bt.- Physiologist & Surgeon
1861-1871- Sir Edward Sabine- Astronomer, Ornithologist, Geophysicist, & Explorer 1871-1873- Sir George Biddell Airy- Mathematician and astronomer
1873-1878- Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker- Botanist & Explorer
1878-1883- William H Spottiswoode- Mathematician & Physicist
1883-1885- The Rt. Hon. Thomas Henry Huxley, P.C.- Biologist 1885-1890- Sir George Gabriel Stokes- Mathematician & Physicist
1890-1895- The Lord Kelvin- Mathematical Physicist 1895-1900- The Lord Lister- Surgeon
1900-1905- Sir William Huggins- Astronomer
1905-1908- The Lord Rayleigh- Physicist
1908-1913- Sir Archibald Geikie- Geologist and writer
1913-1915- Sir William Crookes- Chemist and physicist
1915-1920- Sir Joseph John Thomson- Physicist
1920-1925- Sir Charles Sherrington- Neurophysiologist, Bacteriologist, Histologist, & Pathologist 1925-1930- The Lord Rutherford of Nelson- Physicist & Chemist
1930-1935- Sir Frederick Hopkins- Biophysicist 1935-1940- Sir William Henry Bragg- Physicist, Mathematician & , Chemist
1940-1945- Sir Henry Hallett Dale- Pharmacologist & Physiologist 1945-1950- Sir Robert Robinson- Organic Chemist
1950-1955- The Lord Adrian- Electrophysiologist 1955-1960- Sir Cyril Norman Hinshelwood- Physical Chemist 1960-1965-The Lord Florey- Pharmacologist & Pathologist
1965-1970-The Lord Blackett- Physicist
1970-1975- Sir Alan Lloyd Hodgkin- Physiologist & Biophysicist 1975-1980- The Lord Todd- Biochemist
1980-1985- Sir Andrew Huxley- Physiologist & Biophysicist
1985-1990- Sir George Porter- Chemist
1990-1995- Sir Michael Atiyah- Mathematician
1995-2000- Sir Aaron Klug- Chemist & Biophysicist
2000-2005- The Lord May of Oxford-Chief Scientific Adviser to the UK Government 2005-2010-The Lord Rees of Ludlow- Cosmologist & Astrophysicist 2010-present- Sir Paul Nurse- Geneticist & Cell Biologist
2005-2010-The Lord Rees of Ludlow- Cosmologist & Astrophysicist
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