List of fellows of the Royal Society elected in 1789

This is a list of fellows of the Royal Society elected in 1789.[1]

Fellows

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  1. James Adair (c.1743–1798), Irish Sergeant-at-Law
  2. Abraham Bennet (1749–1799), clergyman and physicist
  3. Claude Louis, Count Berthollet (1748–1822), French chemist
  4. Johann Elert Bode (1747–1826), German astronomer
  5. Jean Dominique Cassini, Count of Thury (1748–1845), French astronomer
  6. Jonathan Davies (1736–1809), Eton headmaster
  7. Sampson Eardley, Baron Eardley (died 1824)
  8. Richard Fitzwilliam, 7th Viscount Fitzwilliam of Meryon (1745–1816)
  9. Frederick Augustus, Duke of York and Albany (1763–1827), Royal Member
  10. Adrien Marie Le Gendre (1752–1833), French mathematician
  11. John Gillies (1747–1836), historian
  12. Samuel Goodenough, Bishop of Carlisle (1743–1827)
  13. Henry Frederick William, Duke of Cumberland and Strathearn (1745–1790), Royal Member
  14. Ewald Friedrich Herzberg (1725–1795), Prussian statesman
  15. Christian Gottlob Heyne (1729–1812), German archaeologist
  16. Edward Jenner (1749–1823), physician
  17. Abraham Gotthelf Kastner (1719–1800), German mathematician
  18. Pierre Simon Laplace (1749–1827), French scholar
  19. Pierre François Andre Méchain (1744–1805), French astronomer
  20. John David Michaelis (1717–1791), Prussian scholar
  21. Robert Morse (1743–1818), military engineer
  22. George Rogers (died 1816), Navy commissioner
  23. George Shaw (1751–1813), botanist and zoologist
  24. Johann Karl Wilcke (1732–1796), Swedish physicist
  25. Robert Wood, MP

References

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  1. ^ "Fellowship of the Royal Society 1660–2015". London: Royal Society. Archived from the original on 2015-10-15.