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1041	Name:	Sir Boverton Redwood
	Year Elected:	1898
	Residency:	International
	Living? :	Deceased

1042	Name:	Lord Martin Rees
	Institution:	University of Cambridge
	Year Elected:	1993
	Class:	1. Mathematical and Physical Sciences
	Subdivision:	101. Astronomy
	Residency:	International
	Living? :	Living
	Birth Date:	1942

	Martin Rees is Professor of Cosmology and Astrophysics and Master of Trinity College at the University of Cambridge. He holds the honorary title of Astronomer Royal and also Visiting Professor at Imperial College London and at Leicester University. After studying at the University of Cambridge, he held post-doctoral positions in the UK and the USA, before becoming a professor at Sussex University. In 1973, he became a fellow of King's College and Plumian Professor of Astronomy and Experimental Philosophy at Cambridge (continuing in the latter post until 1991) and served for ten years as director of Cambridge's Institute of Astronomy. From 1992 to 2003 he was a Royal Society Research Professor. He is a foreign associate of the National Academy of Sciences, the American Philosophical Society, and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and is an honorary member of the Russian Academy of Sciences, the Pontifical Academy, and several other foreign academies. His awards include the Gold Medal of the Royal Astronomical Society, the Balzan International Prize, the Bruce Medal of the Astronomical Society of the Pacific, the Heineman Prize for Astrophysics (AAS/AIP), the Bower Award for Science of the Franklin Institute, the Cosmology Prize of the Peter Gruber Foundation, the Einstein Award of the World Cultural Council, the Crafoord Prize (Royal Swedish Academy), the Lewis Thomas Prize (2009) from Rockefeller University in recognition of his book Just Six Numbers: The Deep Forces That Shape the Universe (2000), the 2011 Templeton Prize, and the 2012 Isaac Newton medal of the Institute of Physics. He has been president of the British Association for the Advancement of Science (1994-95) and the Royal Astronomical Society (1992-94) and a trustee of the British Museum, NESTA and the Kennedy Memorial Trust. He is currently on the Board of Trustees of the National Museum of Science and Industry the Institute for Public Policy Research, and the Princeton Institute for Advanced Study, and has served on many bodies connected with education, space research, arms control and international collaboration in science. In 2005 he was appointed to the House of Lords and elected President of the Royal Society. He is the author or co-author of more than 500 research papers, mainly on astrophysics and cosmology, and of numerous magazine and newspaper articles on scientific and general subjects. He is the author of several books, including From Here to Infinity: Scientific Horizons (2011) and On the Future (2018). He has broadcast and lectured widely and held various visiting professorships, etc. His main current research interests are high energy astrophysics, cosmic structure formation and general cosmological issues.

1043	Name:	Dr. Tullio Regge
	Institution:	Institute of Theoretical Physics, Turin
	Year Elected:	1982
	Class:	1. Mathematical and Physical Sciences
	Subdivision:	106. Physics
	Residency:	International
	Living? :	Deceased
	Birth Date:	1931
	Death Date:	October 23, 2014

	Tullio Regge was an Italian theoretical physicist known for his introduction of geometrical principles to the formulation of what have come to be called "Regge poles" and the "Regge calculus," a simplified form of general relativity. A graduate of the University of Rochester (Ph.D., 1956), Dr. Regge served as Professor of Theory and Relativity at the University of Turin beginning in 1962. For 12 years he was also a member of the Institute for Advanced Study at Princeton University (1967-79). Winner of the 1996 Dirac Medal, Dr. Regge had also been awarded the Heineman Prize for Mathematical Physics (1964), the Einstein Medal (1979) and Cecil Powell Medal (1987). In 1989 he was elected to the European Parliament. He was elected a member of the American Philosophical Society in 1982. He died October 23, 2014, at the age of 83.

1044	Name:	Victor Regnault
	Year Elected:	1855
	Residency:	International
	Living? :	Deceased

1045	Name:	Dr. Werner E. Reichardt
	Institution:	Max Planck Institute
	Year Elected:	1988
	Class:	2. Biological Sciences
	Subdivision:	210. Behavioral Biology, Psychology, Ethology, and Animal Behavior
	Residency:	International
	Living? :	Deceased
	Birth Date:	1924
	Death Date:	9/18/92

1046	Name:	Sir William Reid
	Year Elected:	1843
	Residency:	International
	Living? :	Deceased

1047	Name:	Jean P.A. Rémusat
	Year Elected:	1830
	Residency:	International
	Living? :	Deceased

1048	Name:	Joseph Ernest Renan
	Year Elected:	1863
	Residency:	International
	Living? :	Deceased

1049	Name:	Charles Renard
	Year Elected:	1854
	Residency:	International
	Living? :	Deceased

1050	Name:	Alphonse F. Renard
	Year Elected:	1881
	Residency:	International
	Living? :	Deceased

1051	Name:	Eugene Renevier
	Year Elected:	1879
	Residency:	International
	Living? :	Deceased

1052	Name:	Lord Colin Renfrew
	Institution:	McDonald Institute of Archaeological Research, University of Cambridge
	Year Elected:	2006
	Class:	4. Humanities
	Subdivision:	403. Cultural Anthropology
	Residency:	International
	Living? :	Living
	Birth Date:	1937

	Colin Renfrew is one of the most influential and renowned archaeologists in the world today. From his important excavations in Greece and the Aegean - at Saliagos, Melos, and Sitagroi - and the influential publications on this research that followed, to his research on the Orkneys in northern Scotland, he has played a leading role in world archaeology for more than three decades. He is the author of the path-breaking books The Emergence of Civilization: The Cyclades and the Aegean in the Third Millennium B.C. and Before Civilization: the Radiocarbon Revolution and Prehistoric Europe in the early 1970s, which had profound impacts on scholarly understanding of Aegean and European prehistory. He has also made numerous contributions to archaeological theory and method, such as his early research on trace element analysis of obsidian and trade and his formulations on peer polity interaction and the rise of political complexity, to his pioneering work in cognitive, social and linguistic archaeology. With his elevation to a life peerage and a seat in the House of Lords, Lord Renfrew also has been able to play an important political role in furthering the role of arts and culture in the United Kingdom and in combating the ravages of archaeological looting. Lord Renfrew received his Sc.D. from the University of Cambridge in 1976 and has been Disney Professor of Archaeology Emeritus there since 2004. He also serves as Director Emeritus of the McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research.

1053	Name:	Otto Renner
	Year Elected:	1955
	Residency:	International
	Living? :	Deceased
	Birth Date:	1883
	Death Date:	7/8/60

1054	Name:	Caspar G.C. Reomwardt
	Year Elected:	1836
	Residency:	International
	Living? :	Deceased

1055	Name:	Anders J. Retzius
	Year Elected:	1813
	Residency:	International
	Living? :	Deceased

1056	Name:	Magnus G. Retzius
	Year Elected:	1912
	Residency:	International
	Living? :	Deceased

1057	Name:	Franz Reuleaux
	Year Elected:	1877
	Residency:	International
	Living? :	Deceased

1058	Name:	Albert Reville
	Year Elected:	1886
	Residency:	International
	Living? :	Deceased

1059	Name:	Alfonso Reyes
	Year Elected:	1950
	Residency:	International
	Living? :	Deceased
	Birth Date:	1889
	Death Date:	12/27/59

1060	Name:	Dr. Alison Fettes Richard
	Institution:	Yale University
	Year Elected:	2009
	Class:	5. The Arts, Professions, and Leaders in Public & Private Affairs
	Subdivision:	503. Administrators, Bankers and Opinion Leaders from the Public or Private Sectors
	Residency:	International
	Living? :	Living
	Birth Date:	1948

	Professor Alison Richard, who was installed as the 344th Vice-Chancellor of the University of Cambridge on October 1, 2003, was the first woman to hold the position full time. She stepped down as Vice-Chancellor in 2010. An anthropologist with a first degree from the University of Cambridge and a doctorate from the University of London, Professor Richard joined the faculty of Yale University in 1972. She was appointed full professor in 1986, chairing the Department of Anthropology from 1986 to 1990 and later serving as Director of the Yale Peabody Museum of Natural History. She was appointed Provost of Yale in April 1994 and oversaw major strengthening of Yale's financial position and significant growth in academic programs. At Cambridge, Professor Richard launched an ambitious fundraising campaign for one billion pounds to underpin and augment core expenditure, introduced new measures for the stewardship of the University's investments, and developed a bursary fund to ensure that undergraduate students and applicants are not disadvantaged by the national introduction of higher university tuition fees. She also sponsored internal policy initiatives, including a review of Cambridge's international relationships and its international student policy. Professor Richard holds honorary degrees from Peking University, China (2004), the University of Antananarivo, Madagascar (2005), York University, Canada (2006), the University of Edinburgh, UK (2006), Queens University Belfast (2008) and Anglia Ruskin University (2008). In 2005 she was appointed Officier de l'ordre National (Madagascar) and in 2008 she received the prestigious Addison Emery Verrill Medal from the Yale Peabody Museum of Natural History. She was appointed Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire (DBE) in the 2010 Birthday Honours.

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