Sir John Cadogan

Elected: 2010 Founding Fellows

Area(s): Science, Technology, Engineering, Medicine & Mathematics

Specialist Subject(s): Chemistry

Inaugural President of the Society, 2010-14

Formerly: Chairman, Fusion Antibodies Ltd; Director General, Research Councils; Purdie Professor of Chemistry, University of St Andrews; Forbes Professor of Organic Chemistry, University of Edinburgh; Chief Scientist, BP Research Centre; Director of Research, BP; Visiting Professor of Chemistry, Imperial College, London; Professorial Fellow, Swansea University.

Professor John Tucker, inaugural General Secretary of the Society, delivered the following eulogy for Sir John at his funeral:

Sir John Cadogan: Eulogy