Example sentences of "was elected frs " in BNC.

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1 Most of my fellow scientists will remember Frank Rose , one of Prof Kipping 's research students who joined ICI and became renowned as a medicinal organic chemist ; he was elected FRS and received Nottingham 's first honorary degree .
2 In 1912 Punnett was elected FRS .
3 He was appointed CIE ( 1921 ) and CMG ( 1932 ) , was knighted ( 1939 ) , and was elected FRS ( 1926 ) .
4 Peach was elected FRS in 1892 .
5 Muirhead was elected FRS in 1904 .
6 Bastian was elected FRS in 1868 , served as a censor of the Royal College of Physicians of London ( 1897–8 ) , and later received an honorary fellowship of the Royal College of Physicians of Ireland and an honorary MD from the Royal University of Ireland .
7 Fox was appointed OBE in 1920 and CB in 1938 , and was elected FRS in 1943 .
8 He was elected FRS on 3 July 1718 .
9 He was an early investor in Newcomen steam engines , used for mine drainage , and in 1736 he conducted an experiment before the Royal Society , as a result of which he was elected FRS , relating to the problems caused in coalmines by inflammable gases .
10 He was elected FRS in 1831 .
11 He held an honorary LLD of the University of St Andrews ( 1916 ) and was elected FRS in 1920 .
12 He was elected FRS in 1831 , and published two papers on tides and the movement of shingle in the Philosophical Transactions , 1831 and 1834 .
13 In 1789 he published a book , New Experiments on Electricity , and was elected FRS .
14 He was elected FRS in 1892 and gave the Croonian lecture in 1896 .
15 Gilchrist was elected FRS in 1891 .
16 He was elected FRS in 1894 , and in 1898 received a honorary MA from the University of Adelaide .
17 He was elected FRS in 1880 , and was awarded the Davy medal in 1908 .
18 He was elected FRS in 1912 .
19 In 1929 he was elected FRS and in 1931 became professor of bacteriology at London University .
20 In 1923 Desch was elected FRS .
21 He was elected FRS in 1887 , and was also FRSE .
22 He was elected FRS in 1875 and was much involved in the affairs of the Royal Society of Edinburgh ( president 1913–15 ) and the Royal Scottish Geographical Society ( president 1904–10 ) .
23 In 1886 he was elected FRS although he had no academic degree until 1910 , when he delivered the Herbert Spencer lecture at Oxford and the university conferred on him an honorary D.Sc .
24 He was elected FRS in 1934 and in 1937 he was appointed professor of chemistry at University College London .
25 He was appointed CBE in 1965 and was elected FRS in 1953 .
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