Science Museum Group Fellows

Every year we invite selected individuals to join the programme and become Fellows of the Science Museum Group. Those listed below have been both nominated and elected.

 2022 FELLOWSHIP AWARDS

• Dame Deborah James (d. 2022)—in recognition of her tireless work on social media, along with blogs and articles, which has spread positivity and awareness about cancer research, treatments and the experience of patients, and has highlighted the importance of early diagnosis and research to a wider audience. She has provided invaluable support to the Science Museum Group, especially in relation to the Cancer Revolution exhibition.
• The Lord Sainsbury of Turville—in recognition of his great dedication and generosity towards science through his work as Minister for Science and Innovation and his outstanding record of philanthropy across both science and the arts, as well as his invaluable contribution to the Science Museum’s Technicians gallery through the Gatsby Charitable Foundation.
• Professor Alice Gast—in recognition of her dedication to science through her leadership at Imperial College London, which has deepened and strengthened the Science Museum Group’s partnership with Imperial and throughout which she has engaged the public with science in many ways, notably by championing the White City Campus and committing Imperial to the development of the Great Exhibition Road Festival.
• Professor Lord Stern—in recognition of his exceptional leadership of the science of climate change through his chairmanship of the Centre for Climate Change Economics and Policy and the Grantham Research Institute on Climate Change and the Environment; the latter’s Transition Pathway Initiative reports have been of great assistance to the Science Museum Group. His paper ‘A time for action on climate change and a time for change in economics’ has also been extremely significant and influential, alongside his wider support for the Science Museum Group.
• Professor Dame Sarah Gilbert, Professor Sir Andrew Pollard and Professor Teresa Lambe OBE—in recognition of their extraordinary dedication to science through their truly world-leading work in developing a vaccine to protect individuals against COVID-19 and for their support of the Science Museum Group’s COVID-19 collecting project and vaccine exhibition.

2021 FELLOWSHIP AWARDS

• Mr Charles Bolden Jr—in recognition of his exceptional dedication to technology and engineering through his great distinction as a test pilot, then as an astronaut, Space Shuttle pilot and commander, and latterly as Administrator of NASA, when he helped inspire young people during popular events at the Science Museum.
• Professor Dame Ottoline Leyser—in recognition of her exceptional dedication to science through her distinguished research on plant genetics and development and her roles in the Royal Society, UKRI and Nuffield Council on Bioethics, which have influenced research culture and policy, and advice for the Science Museum, from working with UKRI to the development of a future gallery on the global food supply.
• Professor Simon Schaffer—in recognition for his remarkable scholarship as a historian and philosopher of science, bringing science to a wide audience through his books, television programmes and contribution to the Science Museum over many years through his membership of its Advisory Board.
• Sir Roger Penrose—in recognition for his dedication to science through his seminal work in the field of general theory of relativity and black holes, recognised by a Nobel Prize, his bestselling books which have engaged many with mathematical physics, consciousness and cosmology, his work on geometry, and his support of the Science Museum’s Pattern Pod, aimed at younger children.

FELLOWS OF THE SCIENCE MUSEUM GROUP

• Professor the Lord Darzi of Denham, elected 2020
• Professor Dame Sally Davies, elected 2020
• Sir John Gurdon, elected 2020
• Sir Gregory Winter, elected 2020
• Dr Fabiola Gianotti, elected 2019
• Sir Tim Berners-Lee, elected 2019
• Baroness Lane Fox, elected 2019
• Sir Neil Cossons, elected 2019
• Lady Anya Sainsbury, elected 2019
• Sir Kenneth Grange, elected 2019
• Dr Kartar Lalvani, elected 2018
• Sir Mark Walport, elected 2018
• Dame Margaret Weston, elected 2018 (d. 2021)
• HRH The Princess Royal, elected 2018
• Timothy Peake, elected 2017
• Sir Venki Ramakrishnan, elected 2017
• Professor Dame Ann Dowling, elected 2016
• Dr Helen Sharman, elected 2016
• Rt Hon George Osborne, elected 2016
• Professor Dame Nancy Rothwell, elected 2016
• Sir David Harding, elected 2015
• Professor John O’Keefe, elected 2015
• Alexei Arkhipovich Leonov, elected 2015 (d. 2019)
• Deputy Prime Minister of the Russian Federation Ms Olga Golodets,
  elected 2015
• Dr Valentina Tereshkova, elected 2015
• Her Majesty The Queen, elected 2014 (d. 2022)
• His Royal Highness The Duke of Edinburgh, elected 2014 (d.2021)
• Dr Douglas Gurr, elected 2014
• Professor Peter Higgs, elected 2013
• The Lord Rees of Ludlow, elected 2013
• Michael G Wilson, elected 2013
• Professor Stephen Hawking, elected 2012 (d. 2018)
• Professor Rolf-Dieter Heuer, elected 2012
• Sir David Attenborough, elected 2010
• Professor Dame Jocelyn Bell-Burnell, elected 2010
• Professor Dame Athene Donald, elected 2010
• Baroness Susan Greenfield, elected 2010
• James Lovelock, elected 2010 (d. 2022)
• Professor Wangari Maathai, elected 2010 (d.2011)
• Sir James Black, elected 2009 (d.2010)
• Sir John Cornforth, elected 2009 (d.2013)
• Professor Christian de Duve, elected 2009 (d.2013)
• Professor Antony Hewish, elected 2009 (d. 2021)
• Sir Timothy Hunt, elected 2009
• Sir Andrew Huxley, elected 2009 (d.2012)
• Professor Brian Josephson, elected 2009
• Sir Harold Kroto, elected 2009 (d.2016)
• Sir Anthony Leggett, elected 2009
• Sir Peter Mansfield, elected 2009 (d.2017)
• Sir Paul Nurse, elected 2009
• Sir Richard Roberts, elected 2009
• Sir Martin Smith, elected 2009
• Professor Sir John Sulston, elected 2009 (d. 2018)
• Sir John Walker, elected 2009