Years |
President |
Profession
|
1662–1677 |
 |
The Viscount Brouncker |
Mathematician
|
1677–1680 |
 |
Sir Joseph Williamson |
Civil servant and politician
|
1680–1682 |
 |
Sir Christopher Wren |
Architect, astronomer and physicist
|
1682–1683 |
 |
Sir John Hoskyns, Bt |
Lawyer
|
1683–1684 |
 |
Cyril Wyche |
Lawyer and politician
|
1684–1686 |
 |
Samuel Pepys |
Naval administrator and Member of Parliament
|
1686–1689 |
 |
The Earl of Carbery |
Politician
|
1689–1690 |
 |
The Earl of Pembroke |
Politician
|
1690–1695 |
 |
Sir Robert Southwell |
Diplomat
|
1695–1698 |
 |
Charles Montagu |
Poet and statesman
|
1698–1703 |
 |
The Lord Somers |
Jurist and statesman
|
1703–1727 |
 |
Sir Isaac Newton |
Physicist, mathematician, astronomer, natural philosopher, alchemist, and theologian
|
1727–1741 |
 |
Sir Hans Sloane, Bt |
Physician and collector
|
1741–1752 |
 |
Martin Folkes |
Antiquarian
|
1752–1764 |
 |
The Earl of Macclesfield |
Astronomer
|
1764–1768 |
 |
The Earl of Morton |
Astronomer and representative peer
|
1768-1768 |
 |
James Burrow |
Legal reporter
|
1768–1772 |
 |
James West |
Politician and antiquarian
|
1772-1772 |
 |
James Burrow |
Legal reporter
|
1772–1778 |
 |
Sir John Pringle |
Physician
|
1778–1820 |
 |
Sir Joseph Banks |
Naturalist and botanist
|
1820-1820 |
 |
William Hyde Wollaston |
Chemist
|
1820–1827 |
 |
Sir Humphry Davy, Bt |
Chemist and inventor
|
1827–1830 |
 |
Davies Gilbert |
Engineer, author and politician
|
1830–1838 |
 |
The Duke of Sussex |
Sixth son of George III of the United Kingdom
|
1838–1848 |
 |
The Marquess of Northampton |
Nobleman
|
1848–1854 |
 |
The Earl of Rosse |
Astronomer
|
1854–1858 |
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The Lord Wrottesley |
Astronomer
|
1858–1861 |
 |
Sir Benjamin Collins Brodie, Bt |
Physiologist and surgeon
|
1861–1871 |
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Sir Edward Sabine |
Astronomer, geophysicist, ornithologist and explorer
|
1871–1873 |
 |
Sir George Biddell Airy |
Mathematician and astronomer
|
1873–1878 |
 |
Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Botanist and explorer
|
1878–1883 |
 |
William H. Spottiswoode |
Mathematician and physicist
|
1883–1885 |
 |
Thomas Henry Huxley |
Biologist
|
1885–1890 |
 |
Sir George Stokes, Bt |
Mathematician and physicist
|
1890–1895 |
 |
The Lord Kelvin |
Mathematical physicist
|
1895–1900 |
 |
The Lord Lister |
Surgeon
|
1900–1905 |
 |
Sir William Huggins |
Astronomer
|
1905–1908 |
 |
The Lord Rayleigh |
Physicist
|
1908–1913 |
 |
Sir Archibald Geikie |
Geologist and writer
|
1913–1915 |
 |
Sir William Crookes |
Chemist and physicist
|
1915–1920 |
 |
Sir Joseph John Thomson |
Physicist
|
1920–1925 |
 |
Sir Charles Scott Sherrington |
Neurophysiologist, histologist, bacteriologist, and pathologist
|
1925–1930 |
 |
Sir Ernest Rutherford (Later the Lord Rutherford of Nelson) |
Physicist and chemist
|
1930–1935 |
 |
Sir Frederick Gowland Hopkins |
Biophysicist
|
1935–1940 |
 |
Sir William Henry Bragg |
Physicist, chemist and mathematician
|
1940–1945 |
 |
Sir Henry Hallett Dale |
Pharmacologist and physiologist
|
1945–1950 |
 |
Sir Robert Robinson |
Organic chemist
|
1950–1955 |
 |
The Lord Adrian |
Electrophysiologist
|
1955–1960 |
 |
Sir Cyril Norman Hinshelwood |
Physical chemist
|
1960–1965 |
 |
The Lord Florey |
Pharmacologist and pathologist
|
1965–1970 |
 |
Patrick Blackett (The Lord Blackett after 1969) |
Physicist
|
1970–1975 |
 |
Sir Alan Lloyd Hodgkin |
Physiologist and Biophysicist
|
1975–1980 |
 |
The Lord Todd |
Biochemist
|
1980–1985 |
 |
Sir Andrew Huxley |
Physiologist and biophysicist
|
1985–1990 |
 |
Sir George Porter (The Lord Porter of Luddenham after 1990) |
Chemist
|
1990–1995 |
 |
Sir Michael Atiyah |
Mathematician
|
1995–2000 |
 |
Sir Aaron Klug |
Chemist and biophysicist
|
2000–2005 |
 |
Sir Robert May (The Lord May of Oxford after 2001) |
Mathematical Biologist
|
2005–2010 |
 |
The Lord Rees of Ludlow |
Cosmologist and astrophysicist
|
2010–2015 |
 |
Sir Paul Nurse |
Geneticist and cell biologist
|
2015–present |
 |
Sir Venkatraman Ramakrishnan |
Biophysicist
|