Recipients have included:
1952 • HRH The
Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh KG KT OM GBE HonFRSC
1979 •
Margaret Thatcher, Baroness Thatcher LG OM DStJ PC FRS HonFRSC
1980 • Professor
Elias J Corey HonFRSC ForMemRS • Professor
Manfred Eigen HonFRSC HonFRSE ForMemRS • Professor
Albert Eschenmoser HonFRSC ForMemRS • Professor
Rolf Huisgen HonFRSC • Professor Dr
Heinrich Noth HonFRSC
1983 • Professor
Gilbert Stork HonFRSC ForMemRS
1985 • Professor
Duilio G Arigoni HonFRSC ForMemRS • Dr
Reuben S Leach HonFRSC • Professor
Riley Schaeffer HonFRSC • Sir Peter Walters HonFRSC
1986 •
Princess Chulabhorn CChem HonFRSC
1987 • Professor
Jack Halpern HonFRSC FRS • Professor
Dudley R Herschbach HonFRSC • Professor
Jean-Marie Lehn HonFRSC ForMemRS • Sir
Robert Malpas CBE HonFRSC
1989 • Professor
Chintamani N R Rao CChem HonFRSC FRS
1990 • Dr
Alfred R. Bader HonFRSC • Dr
Wolfgang Fritsche CChem HonFRSC • Professor
Corwin H Hansch HonFRSC (1918–2011) • Professor
Rudolf A Marcus HonFRSC • Professor
Federico Mayor Zaragoza HonFRSC • Professor
Oleg M Nefedov HonFRSC • Professor
John C Polanyi HonFRSC FRS
1993 • Miss
Helen P Sharman OBE CChem HonFRSC
1994 • Dr
Mary L Good CChem HonFRSC
1995 • Professor
Roald Hoffmann HonFRSC ForMemRS
1996 • Professor
Ronald C D Breslow HonFRSC FRS • Professor
Walter Kaminsky HonFRSC
1997 • Professor
Karl B Sharpless HonFRSC
1998 • Professor Sir
John Ivan George Cadogan CBE CChem HonFRSC FRSE FRS • Sir
Aaron Klug OM PRS HonFRSC HonFRSE FRS • Professor
George A Olah HonFRSC FRS • Sir
Richard Brook Sykes HonFRSC FRS • Professor Sir
John Walker HonFRSC FRS
2000 • Professor
Jack David Dunitz HonFRSC FRS • Professor Sir
Harry Kroto CChem HonFRSC HonFRSE FRS • Professor
Ryoji Noyori HonFRSC ForMemRS
2001 •
The Lord Browne of Madingley HonFRSC FRS • Professor
Richard N Zare HonFRSC ForMemRS
2002 • Professor
Henri B Kagan HonFRSC • Sir
Thomas Fulton Wilson McKillop HonFRSC FRSE FRS • Professor Sir
John Edward Sulston HonFRSC FRS • Professor
Kurt Wuthrich HonFRSC HonFRSE ForMemRS • Professor
Ahmed Hassan Zewail HonFRSC ForMemRS Also in 2002, the fictional character
Sherlock Holmes was awarded an "Extraordinary Honorary Fellowship".
2003 • Professor Sir
Richard Friend HonFRSC FRS • Professor Sir
Peter Mansfield HonFRSC FRS
2004 • Dr
Peter Agre HonFRSC • Professor
Aaron Ciechanover HonFRSC • Professor
Harry Barkus Gray HonFRSC ForMemRS • Professor
Avram Hershko HonFRSC • Professor
Roderick MacKinnon HonFRSC • Professor
Irwin Rose HonFRSC (1926–2015)
2005 • Mr
Heston Blumenthal OBE HonFRSC • Dr
Yves Chauvin HonFRSC • Professor
Robert H Grubbs HonFRSC • Professor
Satoshi Omura HonFRSC • Professor
Richard Royce Schrock HonFRSC ForMemRS • Professor
George M Whitesides HonFRSC
2006 • Dr
Adam Hart-Davis HonFRSC • Professor
Roger D Kornberg HonFRSC FRS • Professor
Goverdhan Mehta CChem HonFRSC FRS • Professor
Teruaki Mukaiyama HonFRSC • Professor
Herbert Roesky HonFRSC •
The Lord Sainsbury of Turville HonFRSC FRS
2007 • Professor
Chunli Bai HonFRSC • Professor
Carl Djerassi HonFRSC ForMemRS (1923–2015) • Professor
Gerhard Ertl HonFRSC HonFRSE • Professor
Dieter Fenske HonFRSC • Mr
Jim Ratcliffe HonFRSC
2008 • Professor
Martin Chalfie HonFRSC • Professor
Roger Yonchien Tsien HonFRSC ForMemRS
2009 • Professor
Christian André Amatore HonFRSC • Professor
Allen Joseph Bard HonFRSC • Dr
Brian Iddon CChem HonFRSC • Dr
Venkatraman Ramakrishnan HonFRSC FRS • Professor
Thomas Arthur Steitz HonFRSC • Professor
Ada E Yonath HonFRSC
2010 • Mr
Bill Bryson OBE HonFRSC • Professor
Andre Geim HonFRSC FRS • Professor Sir
Alec Jeffreys HonFRSC FRS • Professor
Ei-ichi Negishi HonFRSC • Professor
Konstantin Novoselov HonFRSC • Professor Sir
Paul Nurse HonFRSC FRSE FRS • Professor
Akira Suzuki HonFRSC
2011 • Dr
Quentin Cooper HonFRSC • Dr
Yusuf Khwaja Hamied HonFRSC • Dr
Yuan Tseh Lee HonFRSC • Professor
Dan Shechtman HonFRSC • Sir
J Fraser Stoddart CChem HonFRSC HonFRSE FRS • Dr
Joan Selverstone Valentine HonFRSC
2012 • Professor
Brian Kobilka HonFRSC • Professor
Robert J Lefkowitz HonFRSC • Sir
Gregory P Winter CBE HonFRSC FRS
2013 •
The Lord Ballyedmond OBE, HonFRSC, FRCVS (1944–2014) • Professor
Michael Grätzel HonFRSC • Professor
Anne Glover CBE HonFRSC • Professor Dame
Julia S Higgins DBE HonFRSC FRS • Professor
Andrew B Holmes HonFRSC FRS • Professor
Martin Karplus HonFRSC • Professor
Michael Levitt HonFRSC FRS • Professor
Arieh Warshel HonFRSC • Mr
Keith Wiggins HonFRSC
2014 • Professor
Jacqueline Barton HonFRSC • Dr
Eric Betzig HonFRSC • Professor Dr
Stefan Hell HonFRSC • Professor
William Moerner HonFRSC • Professor
Bengt Norden HonFRSC • Professor
Sir Martyn Poliakoff CBE HonFRSC FRS • Professor Dame
Julia Slingo HonFRSC • Professor
Gabor Somorjai HonFRSC
2015 • Professor
Andrew D Hamilton HonFRSC FRS • Dr
Tomas R Lindahl HonFRSC • Dr
Paul L Modrich HonFRSC • Professor
Dame Carol V Robinson DBE HonFRSC FRS • Professor
Lesley J Yellowlees CBE HonFRSC FRSE
2016 • Professor
Jean-Pierre Sauvage HonFRSC • Professor Dr
Bernard L Feringa CChem HonFRSC • Professor Dr
Xinhe Bao HonFRSC • Professor
Christina Moberg HonFRSC • Professor Dame
Janet Thornton DBE HonFRSC FRS
2017 • Professor
Jacques Dubochet HonFRSC • Dr
Joachim Frank HonFRSC • Professor
Richard Henderson HonFRSC FRS • Professor
Thisbe Lindhorst HonFRSC • Prof Dr Michael Elias Pfändler Hoffmann HonFRSC • Professor
Yuri Tsolakovich Oganessian HonFRSC • Professor
W Graham Richards CBE HonFRSC •
The Lord Willetts HonFRSC • Ms
Emma Walmsley HonFRSC
2018 • Professor
Juliet Gerrard HonFRSC FRSNZ • Dr
Maki Kawai HonFRSC • Dr
Fiona Marshall HonFRSC • Professor
Roger Sheldon HonFRSC FRS
2019 • Professor
Frances Arnold HonFRSC • Professor Dr
Natalia Tarasova HonFRSC • Dr
Anthony Wood HonFRSC • Professor
John B. Goodenough CChem HonFRSC ForMemRS
2020 • Professor
Emmanuel I Iwuoha CSci CChem HonFRSC • Professor
Pilar Goya Laza HonFRSC • Professor
Tebello Nyokong HonFRSC
2021 • Dr Nigist Asfaw HonFRSC • Dr
Audrey M Cameron OBE CChem HonFRSC • Professor
Steven V Ley CBE CChem HonFRSC FRS
2022 • Charlotte Allerton HonFRSC • Professor Dame
Athene Donald DBE HonFRSC FRS • Professor
Ijeoma Uchegbu HonFRSC FMedSci
2024 •
Richard Catlow •
David Cole-Hamilton •
Mama El Rhazi •
Javier García Martinez •
Patrick Vallance •
Pernilla Wittung-Stafshede 2025 •
Carolyn Bertozzi • Dame
Margaret Brimble •
Kelly Chibale • Dame
Clare Grey • Sir
Demis Hassabis • Sir
David MacMillan •
Jane Catherine Ngila == See also ==