List of fellows of the Royal Society elected in 1978

This is a list of fellows of the Royal Society elected in 1978.

Fellows

 * Roger Yate Stanier (1916–1982)
 * Sir Graham Selby Wilson (1895–1987)
 * Alan Frank Gibson (1923–1988)
 * Richard Rado (1906–1989)
 * Malcolm Davenport Milne (1915–1991)
 * Fergus William Campbell (1924–1993)
 * Janos Szentagothai (1912–1994)
 * Hans Walter Kosterlitz (1903–1996)
 * Thomas Philip Stroud Powell (1923–1996)
 * Torbjorn Oskar Caspersson (1910–1997)
 * James Stanley Hey (1909–2000)
 * Barry Edward Johnson (1937–2002)
 * Sir Frederick William Page (1917–2005)
 * John Rodney Quayle (d. 2006)
 * Alastair Ian Scott (1928–2007)
 * Donald Allan Ramsay (d. 2007)
 * Joseph Victor Smith (d. 2007)
 * Sir Denis Eric Rooke (d. 2008)
 * John Lander Harper (d. 2009)
 * George Alan Garton (d. 2010)
 * Har Gobind Khorana (1922–2011)
 * John Arthur Joseph Pateman (1926–2011)
 * John Murdoch Mitchison (d. 2011)
 * Ainsley Iggo (1924–2012)
 * Charles Walter Suckling (1920–2013)
 * Sir Jack Edward Baldwin
 * Norman Keith Boardman
 * Alexander Boksenberg
 * Keith Anthony Browning
 * Philip George Burke
 * Sydney Cohen
 * Roger Arthur Cowley
 * Gordon Henry Dixon
 * Murray Gell-Mann (1929–2019)
 * Archibald Howie
 * Donald Lynden-Bell
 * John (Jake) MacMillan
 * Sir Robin Buchanan Nicholson
 * Ronald Oxburgh, Baron Oxburgh
 * Bernard Leslie Shaw
 * John Hyslop Steele (1926–2013)
 * John Francis Talling (1929–2017)
 * Edwin William Taylor
 * Peter Whittle
 * Charles, Prince of Wales