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In total, fifty eminent scientists from the United Kingdom and the Commonwealth have been honoured, joining illustrious names such as Isaac Newton, Charles Darwin and Albert Einstein. Ten new Foreign Members have also been named.

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Caucher Birkar

Professor of Mathematics in the Department of Pure Mathematics and Mathematical Statistics

Peter Haynes

Professor of Applied Mathematics, Department of Applied Mathematics and Theoretical Physics

Richard Jozsa

Leigh Trapnell Professor of Quantum Physics, Department of Applied Mathematics and Theoretical Physics

Venki Ramakrishnan, President of the Royal Society, says: “Over the course of the Royal Society’s vast history, it is our Fellowship that has remained a constant thread and the substance from which our purpose has been realised: to use science for the benefit of humanity.

“This year’s newly elected Fellows and Foreign Members of the Royal Society embody this, being drawn from diverse fields of enquiry—epidemiology, geometry, climatology—at once disparate, but also aligned in their pursuit and contributions of knowledge about the world in which we live, and it is with great honour that I welcome them as Fellows of the Royal Society.”

Dr Yusuf K Hamied, an alumnus of Christ's College and a generous donor to the ̽��ֱ��, has also been elected an Honorary Fellow.

New Fellows are formally admitted to the Society at the Admissions Day ceremony in July, when they sign the Charter Book and the Obligation of the Fellows of the Royal Society.

View the full list of new Fellows and Foreign Members.

Three Cambridge academics have been made Fellows of the Royal Society in recognition of their outstanding contributions to science.

It is with great honour that I welcome them as Fellows of the Royal Society

Venki Ramakrishnan, President of the Royal Society

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Understanding the Paris Climate Summit

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From 30 November to 11 December, the 21st Session of the Conference of the Parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (COP21/CMP11), will be taking place in Paris. Paris 2015 will be a crucial conference, as it needs to achieve a new international agreement on the climate, applicable to all countries, with the aim of keeping global warming below 2 degrees Celsius.

An event taking place on Monday (16 November), organised by the Cambridge Centre for Climate Science (CCfCS), aims to provide insight into the scientific and political landscape leading up to the Paris summit and beyond.

̽��ֱ��speakers at ‘Understanding the Paris Climate Summit’ will discuss some of the climate research taking place at Cambridge, and how it relates to the negotiations taking place in Paris.

“ ̽��ֱ��Paris summit is hugely significant, but it will be primarily focused on the political issues surrounding climate change,” said Professor Peter Haynes of the Department of Applied Mathematics and Theoretical Physics, and one of the founding members of CCfCS. “There’s a breadth of climate-related research in science and technology happening at the ̽��ֱ��, and we want to continue to build on that.”

Speakers at Monday’s event will be Sir David King, UK Special Representative for Climate Change, who played a key role in many of the pre-Paris negotiations; Professor Sir Richard Friend from the ̽��ֱ��’s Cavendish Laboratory, who will discuss future energy prospects; Dr Emily Shuckburgh from the British Antarctic Survey, who will share her personal view of what we know and what we don't know about climate science; and Professor John Pyle from the Department of Chemistry, who will discuss why the Montreal Protocol to protect the ozone layer worked, and why similar protocols to control carbon emissions have been much more difficult.

̽��ֱ��Cambridge Centre for Climate Science (CCfCS) has been established to promote research and other activities in Climate Science going on at several Departments of the ̽��ֱ�� of Cambridge (Applied Mathematics and Theoretical Physics, Archaeology, Chemistry, Earth Sciences, Geography, Plant Sciences and Scott Polar Research Institute) and at the British Antarctic Survey.

All members of the ̽��ֱ�� are welcome to attend – the full programme is available here. Online registration, while not required, would be helpful for the organisers to determine numbers.

An event taking place next week in Cambridge will highlight some of the key scientific, technological and policy issues relevant to the Paris climate summit which begins later this month.

There’s a breadth of climate-related research in science and technology happening at the ̽��ֱ��, and we want to continue to build on that.

Peter Haynes

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