The University of Wales Sir Ellis Griffith Memorial Prize 2020 has been awarded to Professor Hazel Walford Davies for her vo... Read More
Archive for the ‘Fellows’ Category
Professor Gert Aarts FLSW appointed as Director of European Centre for Theoretical Nuclear Physics
5 January, 2021
News from one of our Fellows. Congratulations to Professor Gert Aarts FLSW.
Prof Gert Aarts FLSW, of Swansea University's Physics Department, has been appoi... Read More
Sir John Meurig Thomas
18 November, 2020
It is with much regret that we report the death of Sir John Meurig Thomas.
Sir John was renowned for his work in the science of catalysts and solid state chemistry. The production cha... Read More
Jeremy Hooker – Selected Poems 1965-2018
7 October, 2020
The Selected Poems 1965 - 2018 of Jeremy Hooker, Emeritus Professor of English at the University of South Wales, were publish... Read More
Professor Sir Vaughan Jones
8 September, 2020
We regret to report the death of Professor Sir Vaughan Jones, one of our Honorary Fellows.
Mathematics was revolutionised by Sir Vaughan in the early 1980s when he found deep connections between subfactors, analytic objects in the theory of o... Read More
Learned Society of Wales Announces Two New Honorary Fellows
29 April, 2020
The co-discover of the pulsar and a BBC Reith lecturer are among those admitted to the Fellowship of the Learned Society of Wales (LSW), the national academy for arts and sciences.
Physicist Dame Jocelyn Bell Burnell, who discovered pul... Read More
Learned Society of Wales Welcomes 45 New Fellows
The Learned Society of Wales is delighted to welcome a further 45 academics, researchers, and professionals to its Fellowship.
The new Fellows include academics from numerous Welsh and UK higher education institutions as well as individuals w... Read More
Sir John Houghton FLSW: In Memoriam
20 April, 2020
It is with much regret that we report the death of Sir John Houghton, one of the founding Fellows of the Learned Society of Wales.
Sir John, from Dyserth, played leading roles in the&... Read More
Professor Robin Stowell FLSW Awarded Prize for Music Encyclopedia
8 April, 2020
Robin Stowell, an Emeritus Professor in the School of Music, Cardiff University and one of the Society’s Fellows has won, along with his co-editor Colin Lawson, the C.B. Oldman prize, 2019, for The Cambridge Encyclopedia of Historical Performance in Music (Cambridge University Pres... Read More
Professor Roger Falconer receives Chinese engineering honour
2 April, 2020
Professor Roger Falconer, Emeritus Professor of Water Management School of Engineering, Cardiff University and a Fellow of the Learned Society of Wales, was elected a Foreign Member o... Read More