Royal Society

The organization emerged because many astronomers felt the Royal Society under Sir Joseph Banks was no longer adequately serving their interests.

Elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1822 and awarded its Royal Medal in 1826, Dalton became the first British scientist

He was created a Fellow of the Royal Society.

Robert Alfred Cloyne Godwin-Austen FRS (17 March 1808-25 November 1884)

James Dwight Dana FRS FRSE (February 12, 1813, April 14, 1895)

Professor Kurt Lambeck AC, FRS, FAA, FRSN (born 20 September 1941 in Utrecht, Netherlands)

Maurice Lugeon FRS(For)

Brigadier Ralph Alger Bagnold, OBE, FRS, (3 April 1896-28 May 1990)

Sir William Edmond Logan, FRSE FRS FGS (20 April 1798-22 June 1875)

César Milstein, CH, FRS (8 October 1927-24 March 2002)

Peter Martin Duncan FRS (20 April 1821-28 May 1891)

Cecil Edgar Tilley FRS, Hon FRSE, PGS (14 May 1894-24 January 1973)

Gideon Algernon Mantell MRCS FRS (3 February 1790-10 November 1852)

Gabriel Auguste Daubrée MIF FRS FRSE (25 June 1814-29 May 1896)

Christopher John Hawkesworth FRS FRSE (born 18 December 1947)

Sir Edward Battersby Bailey FRS FRSE MC (1 July 1881-19 March 1965)

Niels Kaj Jerne, FRS (23 December 1911-7 October 1994)

Leonard Hawkes FRS (6 August 1891-29 October 1981)

Jacques Francis Albert Pierre Miller AC FRS FAA (born 2 April 1931)

John Horne PRSE FRS FRSE FEGS LLD (1 January 1848-30 May 1928)

Emmanuel Marie Pierre Martin Jacquin de Margerie ForMemRS (11 November 1862-20 December 1953)

Fellow of the Royal Society (1766) Copley Medal (1772)

Wollaston Medal (1904) Marcel Benoist Prize (1923) Foreign Member of the Royal Society

Wollaston Medal (1917) Hayden Memorial Geological Award (1923) Penrose Medal (1930) Fellow of the Royal Society

Fellow of the Royal Society, FRS (2013) Wolf Prize in Physics (2018) Breakthrough Prize in Fundamental Physics (2023) Turing Award (2025)

Fellow of the Royal Society Adams Prize (1899) Knight Bachelor (1924) Symons Gold Medal (1934)

Fellow of the Royal Society, FRS (1914) Royal Medal (1924) Cameron Prize for Therapeutics of the University of Edinburgh (1926) Knight Bachelor (1932) Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (1936) Copley Medal (1937) Order of the British Empire, Knight Grand Cross (1943) Order of Merit (1944) Freedom of the City (Dundee) (1947) Albert Medal (Royal Society of Arts), Albert Medal (1956)

Maxwell Medal and Prize (1978) Fellow of the Royal Society (1982) Lilienfeld Prize (1990) Royal Medal (1990) IOP Dirac Medal (1990) Naylor Prize and Lectureship (1992) ICTP Dirac Medal (1996) Knight Bachelor (1996) Wolf Prize (1998) Ig Nobel prize (2000) Onsager Medal (2001) Pólya Prize (2005) Lorentz Medal (2014) Isaac Newton Medal (2025)

SASTRA Ramanujan Prize (2014) Whitehead Prize (2015) EMS Prize (2016) Cole Prize (2020) Fields Medal (2022) New Horizons in Mathematics Prize (2023) Fellow of the Royal Society (2023)

Lenin Prize (1966) List of Fritz London Memorial Prizes, Fritz London Prize (1972) USSR State Prize (1982) Landau Gold Medal (1989) Member of the National Academy of Sciences (2000) Fellow of the Royal Society, ForMemRS (2001) Nobel Prize in Physics (2003)

William Kirby (19 September 1759-4 July 1850) was an English entomologist, an original member of the Linnean Society and a Fellow of the Royal Society, as well as a country rector, so that he was an eminent example of the "parson-naturalist".

In 1717 John became a member (and later vice-president) of the Royal Society of London.

In 1764, Messier was made a fellow of the Royal Society; in 1769, he was elected a foreign member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences; and on 30 June 1770, he was elected to the French Academy of Sciences.

In 1804, Olbers was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of London, in 1809, corresponding member living abroad of the Royal Institute of the Netherlands in 1822, a Foreign Honorary Member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and in 1827, a foreign member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences.

In 1895 Gaudry was elected a foreign member of the Royal Society of London.

He was chosen member of the institute (Academy of Sciences) in 1904 and a Foreign Member of the Royal Society of London.

In 1891 the British Royal Society recognized Heaviside's contributions to the mathematical description of electromagnetic phenomena by naming him a Fellow of the Royal Society, and the following year devoting more than fifty pages of the Philosophical Transactions of the Society to his vector methods and electromagnetic theory.

In 1853 the Wollaston medal of the Geological Society of London was awarded to him, and in 1860 he was elected a foreign member of the Royal Society.

Since 1836 he had been a Fellow of the Royal Society

John Henry Poynting FRS

He became a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1826

including the Royal Society of London (1896)

At the age of thirty, Hooker was elected a fellow of the Royal Society

of the Royal Society of London in 1913

In 1888 he was elected a foreign member of the British Royal Society.

was elected foreign fellow of the Royal Society in 1868

Infobox workplaces: Royal Society

Infobox workplaces: Royal Society; Royal Institution

Infobox workplaces: British Association for the Advancement of Science; Royal Geological Society of Ireland; Royal Society

On 24 January 1839, Darwin was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society (FRS). On 29 January, Darwin and Emma

In May 1914, he was elected a fellow of the Royal Society: he was awarded the Royal Medal in 1928

Fisher was elected to the Royal Society in 1929, the American Academy of Arts a

| He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society (FRS) in 1943. | In 1951 he was elected

Jenner was elected a fellow of the Royal Society in 1788, following his publication of a

Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature (FRSL) in 1997 and a Fellow of the Royal Society (FRS) in 2001. He is one of the patrons

He was elected a Foreign Member of the Royal Society (ForMemRS) in 1892, and in 1893 he was

Fischer was elected a Foreign Member of the Royal Society (ForMemRS) in 1899. He was awarded the

He was elected a member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences in 1888 and a Foreign Member of the Royal Society (ForMemRS) in 1899. He was awarded hono

He was elected Fellow of the Royal Society in 1857. == Early life, family backgro

He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in June 1875 and was their Bakerian Lec

In 1935, Bragg was elected President of the Royal Society. The physiologist A. V. Hill was biolog

In Europe, Gibbs was inducted as honorary member of the London Mathematical Society in 1892 and elected Foreign Member of the Royal Society in 1897. He was elected as correspondin

He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society on 30 April 1772. In 1773, he was elect

Bayes was elected as a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1742. His nomination letter was sign

By then she had been married for 12 years, given birth to three children and been elected a Fellow of the Royal Society (FRS). Thereafter she would publish as

He lectured to the Royal Institution on astronomy in 1815, and was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1816. After graduation, on the other

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He visited England in 1724 and was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society on 5 May. In that year, he published fi

He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1887 and persuaded the Society to fu

Martin was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1950, and made a CBE in 1960. ==Per

James was a Fellow of the Royal Society. == See also == * List of chemists =

Van Leeuwenhoek was elected to the Royal Society in February 1680 on the nomination of W

Koch was made a Knight Grand Cross in the Prussian Order of the Red Eagle on 19 November 1890, and was elected a Foreign Member of the Royal Society (ForMemRS) in 1897. In 1905, he was awa

He was elected to the Royal Society in 1893. He was asked to chair the Inte

He was elected a Foreign Member of the Royal Society (ForMemRS) in 1940. He received the Alb

In 1667 Ray was elected Fellow of the Royal Society, and in 1669 he and Willughby published

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In February 1676, he was admitted a Fellow of the Royal Society, and in July, he moved into the Observa

In 1779, he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society In 1780 Thompson was appointed as Under

Willughby was elected as a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1661, then aged 27. Willughby, Ray,

He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1760. ==Early life, education and p

Hassabis is a Fellow of the Royal Society and has won awards for his research eff

He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society (FRS) that same year. In 2026, he was e

She was elected a Foreign Member of the Royal Society (ForMemRS) in 2016. In 2017, Doudna was

Winter was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society (FRS) in 1990 and awarded the Royal Med

He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 2026. The Kosterlitz Centre at the

He was elected a Foreign Member of the Royal Society in 2020. == Professional activities ==

Lindahl was elected an EMBO Member in 1974 and Fellow of the Royal Society (FRS) in 1988, his certificate of elect

Hawking was a Fellow of the Royal Society, a lifetime member of the Pontifical Ac

Hooke was a Fellow of the Royal Society and from 1662, he was its first Curator

He was elected a Foreign Member of the Royal Society (ForMemRS) in 1907, elected an Internat

He became a Foreign Member of the Royal Society (ForMemRS) in 1910. He was elected an

He is also an elected member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences (1993), a Foreign Member of the Royal Society (ForMemRS) in 1997, and a member of the

While working as a visiting professor at the University of California, Berkeley in 1932, he was elected Fellow of the Royal Society. Haldane worked part-time at the John

Lovelock was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1974. He served as the president of

In 1980, he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society, and in 1984, he was invited by Richard

In 1992, Kimura received the Darwin Medal from the Royal Society, and the following year he was made a Foreign Member of the Royal Society. Kimura suffered from progressive weak

He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society (FRS) in 1849 and won their Royal Medal

He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society (FRS) in 1999. His certificate of elect

In 1838, he was elected a foreign member of the Royal Society. Meanwhile, invertebrate animals engage

He was elected a Foreign Member of the Royal Society (ForMemRS) in 1941. In 1946, he was pos

He was elected a fellow of the Royal Society in 1941, and as its president from 1960

He was elected an EMBO Member in 1987 and a Fellow of the Royal Society (FRS) in 1989 and a Founder Member of t

Mayr was elected a Foreign Member of the Royal Society (ForMemRS) in 1988. In 1995 he received

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He was awarded the Davy Medal of the Royal Society in 1893 (along with Le Bel), and elected a Foreign Member of the Royal Society (ForMemRS) in 1897. He was awarded the

He was elected fellow of the Royal Society and The Chemical Society of London, ser

He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society (FRS) in 1962. He was elected to the Am

Sulston was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society (FRS) in 1986. His certificate of elect

Sherrington was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society (FRS) in 1893. * 1899 Baly Gold Medal o

He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society (FRS) in 1929. In 1958 he was elected a

He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society (FRS) in 2001. He was also elected as a

In 1989, Wiles was elected to the Royal Society. At that point according to his electio

elected a Foreign Member of the Royal Society (ForMemRS) in 2017. Diffie was also ele

He was a member of the National Academy of Sciences, the American Philosophical Society, the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and a Foreign Member of the Royal Society. The American Mathematical Society sele

Yanofsky was elected a foreign member of the Royal Society in 1985 and was one of the recipients o

Bethe was elected Foreign Member of the Royal Society (ForMemRS) in 1957, and he gave the 199

In May 1905, de Vries was elected Foreign Member of the Royal Society. In 1910, he was elected a member of th

He became a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1927. He was president of the 21st

Zewail was elected a Foreign Member of the Royal Society (ForMemRS) in 2001. He was also elected

He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society (FRS) in 1952, was knighted in 1966 (p

It had wide influence and was translated into several languages. In 1942 he was made a Fellow of the Royal Society, and in 1944 he travelled to Harvard Un

Medawar was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society (FRS) in 1949. With Frank Macfarlane Bu

In 1968 he was elected as an Honorary Fellow of the Royal Microscopical Society (HonFRMS) and in 1984 he became a Foreign Member of the Royal Society (ForMemRS). ==Education and early life

He was elected a Foreign Member of the Royal Society (ForMemRS) in 1988. In addition, he rec

He was elected a Foreign Member of the Royal Society (ForMemRS) in 1987; the French Academy

Temin was elected a Foreign Member of the Royal Society (ForMemRS) in 1988. Following winning

Perutz was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society (FRS) in 1954. In addition to the Nobel

Pearson was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in March 1966. His candidacy citation r

He was elected to Fellow of the Royal Society on 1 February 1821. In 1844, he was ele

In 1818, Buckland was elected a fellow of the Royal Society. That year he persuaded the Prince Rege

Eighteen years later his achievements were recognised, when he became a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1942. In the following year he was a

Box was elected a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1974 and a Fellow of the Royal Society (FRS) in 1985. His name is associated

He was elected a Foreign Member of the Royal Society (ForMemRS) in 1992. In 2005 he was awar

Gilbert was elected a Foreign Member of the Royal Society (ForMemRS) in 1987. In 2002, he receiv

Gurdon was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society (FRS) in 1971, and knighted in the 1995

Wilmut was appointed Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE) in the 1999 Birthday Honours "for services to Embryo Development" and a Fellow of the Royal Society (FRS) in 2002. He was also an elected F

He was elected a Foreign Member of the Royal Society (ForMemRS) in 1974. In 1993, he was ele

In 2020, he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society. In 2022, he received the Princess of A

In 1954, he became a Foreign Member of the Royal Society. He died in New York City on December 2

Hubel was elected a Foreign Member of the Royal Society (ForMemRS) in 1982. ==Personal life==

Katz was made a professor at UCL in 1952 and head of the Biophysics Department; he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society (FRS) in 1952. He stayed as head of Bio

He was elected a Foreign Member of the Royal Society (ForMemRS) in 1979. In 1992, he was awa

He previously held a Federation Fellowship and a Laureate Fellowship from the Australian Research Council, and was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society (FRS) in 2012. Schmidt shared both the

He was awarded the Keith Medal by the Royal Society of Edinburgh in 1855 and was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society (FRS) in 1857. He received honorary deg

He never sought to become a Fellow of the Royal Society and he never attended a meeting of the

He was elected a member of the Royal Society in 1885, and was awarded its Copley Med

He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society (FRS) in 1991, a Fellow of the Associat

He was made a Fellow of the Royal Society and a Distinguished Fellow of the Briti

Chory was elected as a foreign member of the Royal Society in 2011 and was the recipient of the 20

She is an elected member of the National Academy of Sciences (as of 2006), a Foreign Member of the Royal Society (as of 2012), a former president of the

He was elected a Foreign Member of the Royal Society (ForMemRS) in the same year, his nomina

She was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in May 2026. == Early life == Romanowi

She was elected a fellow of the Royal Society in 2019. In 2021, she was elected a mem

* In 1969 he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society * Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada

Eglinton was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society (FRS) in 1976. He won the Royal Medal i

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He was a Fellow of the Royal Society. == Biography == Vening Meinesz's fath

Dunham was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1955, later served on its council, a

He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1916. He was an honorary member of t

Based on his continuing studies of these fossils and mammalian anatomy he was made a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1920. Following the discovery of the

For his work in palaeontology and on the Ganges Canal, Cautley was elected Fellow of the Royal Society on 2 April 1846. During his return jou

He then travelled throughout Europe making geological observations, and was elected Fellow of the Royal Society in 1845. Continuing in the service of t

In 1834, Phillips was elected a fellow of the Royal Society. During later years he received honorar

Prestwich was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1853, awarded its Royal Medal in 186

He had been elected fellow of the Royal Society in 1815, and he was president of the Ge

He was elected Fellow of the Royal Society in 1819. He was knighted on 13 April 18

He was elected Fellow of the Royal Society in 1857, and in 1870 received a Royal m

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He was elected Fellow of the Royal Society in 1831, and was a trustee of the Briti

He was elected Fellow of the Royal Society in 1850. Busk was an active member of t

He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1877 and won the Wollaston Medal of

He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society on 6 June 1878. He died in Cambridge on

He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1854, winning its Royal Medal in 187

He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1877, having been nominated by Charl

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In the same year he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society. At this time the Edinburgh school of g

In 1884, Hudleston was elected Fellow of the Royal Society. In 1886 and the following year he unde

In June 1888 he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society and in 1891 was awarded their Royal Med

He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1890, mainly on account of his book

He became Fellow of the Royal Society in 1873, LL.D (St Andrews) in 1878, pre

In 1889 Sollas became a Fellow of the Royal Society, and was awarded the Royal Medal in 191

He was vice-president of the Geological Society, where he was elected a Fellow in 1868; elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1896, awarded the Murchison Medal in

He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1889 and won the Wollaston Medal of

In 1891 he was made a Fellow of the Royal Society, serving on the Society council from 19

He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1892. The citation on his candidacy

He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society (FRS) in June 1902, and received their

He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1905 and won the Wollaston Medal of

Professor Watts was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1904. In 1910 he succeeded William

He was elected as fellow of the Royal Society in 1898 and was awarded the Murchison M

He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1896. He was elected to membership o

He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1913, received the Bolitho Medal of

He received many honors during his career, first becoming a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada in 1896, a Fellow of the Royal Society (of Great Britain) in 1907, an Internat

He was elected a Foreign Member of the Royal Society (ForMemRS) in 1949. The Norman L. Bowe

He was a Fellow of the Royal Society, the Royal Society of Canada, and of th

He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society (FRS) on 1979. and a Fellow of the Soci

He was elected a Foreign Member of the Royal Society (ForMemRS) in 1984. He was awarded A. C

He was professor of astronomy at Gresham College, London, in 1975 and became a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1979. From 1992 to 2003, he was Roya

He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society, London, in 2001, a member of the Unite

Efstathiou was made a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1994. He received the 2011 Gruber P

He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society (FRS) in 2016. In 2020 he was awarded t

He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society (FRS) in 2024. ==Personal life== Lorim

He was elected a Foreign Member of the Royal Society (ForMemRs) in 1967. Mulliken populatio

He was also awarded an honorary fellowship in the Royal Society of Chemistry (1989) and the Indian Chemical Society (1989) and elected a Fellow of the Royal Society (FRS) in 1988. Taube received honorary

In 1954 he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society and the International Academy of Scienc

Porter was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society (FRS) in 1964. He won the Gairdner Foun

In 1969 he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society (FRS), the oldest national scientific i

He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1977. In 1986 he was awarded the Dar

He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society (FRS) in 1961. He was made a Knight Com

He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society (FRS) in 1995. Walker is also a Foreign

Geim was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society (FRS) in 2007. His certificate of elect

Fersht was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society (FRS) in 1983. The Royal Society awarde

The same year, Leakey was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society and received the Golden Plate Award of

A polymath, Talbot was elected to the Royal Society in 1831 for his work on the integral ca

All three became Fellows of the Royal Society (FRS). Mukherjee's institution buildi

In 1994, he was elected to be a Fellow of the Royal Society. In 1998 at the 23rd International Cong

He was elected a Foreign Member of the Royal Society in 2020. ==References== =

He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 2025. Between 2025 and 2026, Tsimerm

A Fellow of the Royal Society, he received the Davy Medal in 1935. =

He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society (FRS) in 1928. He was knighted in the

In March 1950 he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society for which his candidature citation read

Lee's Prof|essor of Chemistry}} at Oxford, Hinshelwood was elected Fellow of the Royal Society (FRS) in 1929, serving as president fro

Among his many honours, including over 40 honorary degrees, he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1942, a member of the United States

Norrish was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society (FRS) in 1936. As a result of the devel

He was elected a member of the American Philosophical Society in 1959 and a Foreign Member of the Royal Society (ForMemRS) in 1975. ===After Yale=== t

Herzberg was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society (FRS) in 1951. The main building of Jo

Prelog was elected a Foreign Member of the Royal Society (ForMemRS) in 1962 for his contribution

Fukui was elected a Foreign Member of the Royal Society (ForMemRS) in 1989. == Bibliography ==

He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society (FRS) in 1971. In 1974, Polanyi was mad

Huber was elected a member of Pour le Mérite for Sciences and Arts, in 1993 and Foreign Member of the Royal Society (ForMemRS) in 1999. His certificate of

He was elected a Foreign Member of the Royal Society (ForMemRS) in 1993. He was awarded the

He was elected a Foreign Member of the Royal Society (ForMemRS) in 1987. In 2019, Marcus wa

* MacDiarmid was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society (FRS) in 2003 *In 2004, he received the

Ramakrishnan was elected a Member of the European Molecular Biology Organization in 2002, a Fellow of the Royal Society (FRS) in 2003, and a Member of the U.S.

* Elected a Foreign Member of the Royal Society (ForMemRS) in 2011 ==Private life== He

UNESCO awarded him the first Kalinga Prize in 1952 for his work in popularizing scientific knowledge, and he was elected a Foreign Member of the Royal Society on 23 April 1953. Louis became the 7th

He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1936, and in 1939 was appointed Jack

He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society (FRS) in 1970, and was awarded a Nation

He was awarded the Irving Langmuir Award in 1965, the National Medal of Science in 1966 and elected a Foreign Member of the Royal Society (ForMemRS) in 1967. He was awarded the

Brockhouse was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society (FRS) in 1965. In 1982, Brockhouse was

Chu was elected an international fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering UK in 2011, and a Foreign Member of the Royal Society (ForMemRS) in 2014. His nomination read

He was elected as a fellow of the Royal Society and was elected a member of the America

Schekman was elected a Foreign Member of the Royal Society (ForMemRS) in 2013. His nomination read

He was a fellow of the Royal Society and of the Royal Society of Edinburgh.

He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society (FRS) in 1903.

In June 2024 he was elected to serve in the Royal Society of London.