Talk:Fellow of the Royal Society

Nationality criteria
Is "UK and Commonwealth" redundant? The UK is in the Commonwealth.A Geek Tragedy 20:48, 6 April 2006 (UTC)
 * Yes, UK is redundant - but including United Kingdon is clearer to non-Commonwealth readers - I think :) &mdash; Saltmarsh 08:15, 12 August 2006 (UTC)
 * I'd agree; US readers may not be very clear about the Commonwealth.--Runcorn 12:30, 12 August 2006 (UTC)
 * It's also inaccurate -- though a well-sourced inaccuracy from a (since revised to no longer contain this statement) page on the RS website. But looking elsewhere, such as currently available booklets on the election process, and the society's statutes, the criteria seems to be the citizens and current three-year residents of the Commonwealth and Ireland.  Witness the awards to people like Luke A. J. O'Neill, not as far as I know a Commonwealth citizen nor a resident when nominated (though he had been previous).  109.255.211.6 (talk) 08:58, 28 March 2021 (UTC)

Prime Ministers with FRS
Winston Churchill, Clement Attlee, Harold Wilson and Margaret Thatcher were all elected Fellows of the Royal Society (at least according to Wikipedia). The former had no scientific background at all. Does anybody know if prior to the (very recent) intoduction of a seperate postion of Honourary Fellow it was common pratice for non-scientists to be honoured in this way? A Geek Tragedy 22:30, 18 June 2006 (UTC)

Yes, Benjamin Disraeli was a Fellow. --Runcorn 19:06, 19 June 2006 (UTC)

Foreign Members
There is a Wikipedia category for this, but no explanation about this real world category. Anyone have insight into this? I'm trying to figure out what to do with David Hilbert. (John User:Jwy talk) 15:17, 17 August 2006 (UTC)
 * I found the appropriate information in the Royal Society article. I support merging the articles. . .  (John User:Jwy talk) 15:26, 17 August 2006 (UTC)
 * That sounds eminently sensible Jwy. Also support a merge. :Supergolden:: 09:21, 7 November 2006 (UTC)

'New' FRS page with description of award
I have created a 'new' Fellow of the Royal Society article to describe the awards of FRS, HonFRS and ForMemRS (which are often used interchangeably) as they deserve their own article separate from the Royal Society article.

Lots of articles link to this see e.g. Special:WhatLinksHere/Fellow of the Royal Society, more than 5000 articles by my count. This is why the award deserves its own page rather than redirection to a section which doesn't seem very satisfactory IMHO. Redirects have been set up for the following (broadly synonymous) articles:


 * ForMemRS
 * Fellowship of the Royal Society
 * Fellows of the Royal Society
 * Honorary Fellow of the Royal Society
 * Foreign Member of the Royal Society

The redirects divert to the Fellow of the Royal Society article, for example:

instead of what they did previously which was mostly:
 * #REDIRECT Fellow of the Royal Society
 * #REDIRECT Royal Society

The accompanying wikidata item Q15631401 now finally has an english language wikipedia article associated with it, in addition to the six other languages.

Any comments or suggestions? let me know. Its is a WP:BOLD change! Duncan.Hull (talk) 21:45, 26 May 2016 (UTC)

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Capitalisation
This article is inconsistent in terms of capitalising 'fellow.' While internally at the Royal Society we always use a capital 'F' the consensus at WP seems to be not to capitalise. So this article should probably be standardised to lower case 'f' within sentences. Point of Presence talk  13:11, 10 March 2023 (UTC)

Foreign members
I was reading Augustin-Louis Cauchy listed with post nominals as those of someone from the Commonwealth today. It got me curious. Has this practice changed? I couldn't find any real source outside of Wikipedia and I thought like this was the place to ask since from what I see and have read he was always French? 2A02:1406:B:3D6F:85D0:9D6A:76C9:D05B (talk) 19:13, 30 January 2024 (UTC)