List of fellows of the Royal Society elected in 1979

Fellows of the Royal Society elected in 1979.

Fellows

 * 1) Jerzy Neyman (1894–1981)
 * 2) Janet Vida Watson (1923–1985)
 * 3) Evelyn Martin Lansdowne Beale (1928–1985)
 * 4) Yakov Borisovich Zel'dovich (1914–1987)
 * 5) William Charles Evans (1911–1988)
 * 6) Dame Janet Maria Vaughan (1899–1993)
 * 7) Alastair Graham (1906–2000)
 * 8) Patrick Anthony Merton (1920–2000)
 * 9) Julius Axelrod (1912–2004)
 * 10) Digby Johns McLaren (1919–2004)
 * 11) John Maxwell Cowley (1923–2004)
 * 12) Winifred Anne Tutin (1915–2007)
 * 13) Durward William John Cruickshank (1927–2007)
 * 14) John Hilton Edwards (d. 2007)
 * 15) Michael Elliott (d. 2007)
 * 16) Joshua Lederberg (d. 2008)
 * 17) Milton Robert James Salton (d. 2008)
 * 18) Olgierd Cecil Zienkiewicz (d. 2009)
 * 19) Harry Smith (1921–2011)
 * 20) Sir Bernard Crossland (d. 2011)
 * 21) David Alan Walker (1928–2012)
 * 22) Godfrey Harry Stafford (1920–2013)
 * 23) Sir Kenneth Murray (1930–2013)
 * 24) John Robert Laurence Allen
 * 25) Michael Farries Ashby
 * 26) Michael Joseph Crumpton
 * 27) Sir Michael Anthony Epstein (1921–2024)
 * 28) Raymond Freeman
 * 29) Sir Richard Lavenham Gardner
 * 30) Cyril Hilsum
 * 31) Sir David Alan Hopwood
 * 32) Keith Usherwood Ingold
 * 33) Edward Irving
 * 34) Geoffrey Melvill Jones
 * 35) Devendra Lal
 * 36) Michael Franz Lappert
 * 37) Ian Grant Macdonald
 * 38) Robert McCredie May Baron May of Oxford
 * 39) Brenda Atkinson Milner
 * 40) Denis Noble
 * 41) Martin John Rees Baron Rees of Ludlow
 * 42) Paul Harry Roberts
 * 43) John Griggs Thompson
 * 44) David James Thouless (1934–2019)