In recognition of his work with electricity, Franklin received the Royal Society's Copley Medal in 1753, and in 1756 he became one of the few 18th-century Americans elected as a Fellow of the Society.
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In 1856 the Royal Society of London presented Louis Pasteur the Rumford Medal for his discovery of the nature of racemic acid and its relations to polarized light, and the Copley Medal in 1874 for his work on fermentation.
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In May 1773, Adam Smith was elected fellow of the Royal Society of London.
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Stephen Hawking was awarded the Copley Medal from the Royal Society in 2006.
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Through his friend Richard Lower, whom he knew from the Westminster School, John Locke was introduced to medicine and the experimental philosophy being pursued at other universities and in the Royal Society, of which he eventually became a member.
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In London Wilhelm Leibniz came into acquaintance of Henry Oldenburg and John Collins. He met with the Royal Society where he demonstrated a calculating machine that he had designed and had been building since 1670. The machine was able to execute all four basic operations (adding, subtracting, multiplying, and dividing), and the society quickly made him an external member.
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Neils Bohr became foreign member of the Royal Society in 1926.
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Margaret Thatcher's speeches included one to the Royal Society on 27 September 1988.
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In 1812, at the age of 20 and at the end of his apprenticeship, Michael Faraday attended lectures by the eminent English chemist Humphry Davy of the Royal Institution and the Royal Society, and John Tatum, founder of the City Philosophical Society. Many of the tickets for these lectures were given to Faraday by William Dance, who was one of the founders of the Royal Philharmonic Society.
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During the Restoration, Francis Bacon was commonly invoked as a guiding spirit of the Royal Society founded under Charles II in 1660.
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Dmitri Mendeleev was widely honored by scientific organizations all over Europe, including the Royal Society of London (which awarded him with the Copley Medal in 1905). He was elected a Foreign Member of the Royal Society (ForMemRS) in 1892.
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Enrico Fermi was elected a Foreign Member of the Royal Society (FRS) in 1950.
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The Royal Society, whose president Sir Joseph Banks had aided Alexander von Humboldt as a young man, and welcomed him as a foreign member.
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Francis Crick was elected as Fellow of the Royal Society (FRS) in 1959.
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James Clerk Maxwell was awarded the Royal Society's Rumford Medal in 1860 for his work on colour and was later elected to the Society in 1861.
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The British Royal Society awarded Justus von Liebig the Copley Medal "for his discoveries in organic chemistry, and particularly for his development of the composition and theory of organic radicals" in 1840.
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