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| Discipline | Biography |
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| Language | English |
| Edited by | Malcolm Longair |
| Publication details | |
Former name | Obituary Notices of Fellows of the Royal Society |
| History | 1932–present |
| Publisher | Royal Society (United Kingdom) |
| Frequency | Biannually |
| Yes | |
| Standard abbreviations ISO 4 (alt) · Bluebook (alt) NLM (alt) · MathSciNet (alt  ) | |
| ISO 4 | Biogr. Mem. Fellows R. Soc. |
| Indexing CODEN (alt · alt2) · JSTOR (alt) · LCCN (alt) MIAR · NLM (alt) · Scopus · W&L | |
| ISSN | 0080-4606 (print) 1748-8494 (web) |
| LCCN | 56026605 |
| JSTOR | 00804606 |
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TheBiographical Memoirs of Fellows of the Royal Society is anacademic journal on thehistory of science published annually by theRoyal Society. It publishesobituaries ofFellows of theRoyal Society. It was established in 1932 asObituary Notices of Fellows of the Royal Society and obtained its current title in 1955, with volume numbering restarting at 1. Prior to 1932, obituaries were published in theProceedings of the Royal Society.
The memoirs are a significant historical record and most include a fullbibliography of works by the subjects. The memoirs are often written by a scientist of the next generation, often one of the subject's own former students, or a close colleague. In many cases the author is also a Fellow. Notable biographies published in this journal includeAlbert Einstein,[1]Alan Turing,[2]Bertrand Russell,[3]Claude Shannon,[4]Clement Attlee,[5]Ernst Mayr,[6] andErwin Schrödinger.[7]
Each year, around 40 to 50 memoirs of deceased Fellows of the Royal Society are collated by theEditor-in-Chief, currentlyMalcolm Longair, who succeeded Trevor Stuart in 2016. All contents are freely available to read.
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