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The Royal Society spent several million on renovations adapting it to become the " Kavli Royal Society International Centre ", a venue for residential science seminars and conferences and appointed Sir Peter Knight FRS as its Principal.
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In 1827 he was elected a Foreign Member of the Royal Society and in 1828, a foreign member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Science.
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In 1926, the Aga Khan gave a cup ( the Aga Khan Trophy ) to be awarded to the winners of an international team show jumping competition held at the annual horse show of the Royal Dublin Society in Dublin, Ireland every first week in August.
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Later he became secretary of the Royal Society of Arts.
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Sir Andrew John Wiles, KBE, FRS ( born 11 April 1953 ) is a British mathematician and a Royal Society Research Professor at Oxford University, specializing in number theory.
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Decipherment of cuneiform was a formidable task that took more than a decade, but by 1857, the Royal Asiatic Society was convinced that reliable reading of cuneiform texts was possible.
During the turn of the 20th century British Israelites carried out some excavations of the Hill of Tara in Ireland looking for the Ark of the Covenant – the Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland campaigned successfully to have them stopped before they destroyed the hill.
Morita was awarded the Albert Medal by the United Kingdom's Royal Society of Arts in 1982, the first Japanese to receive the honor.
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At this time, Lord Sandwich, together with the President of the Royal Society, Sir Joseph Banks, was advocating establishment of a British colony in New South Wales.
Bradley eventually developed the explanation of aberration in about September 1728 and his theory was presented to the Royal Society in mid January the next year.
He proposed the Celsius temperature scale in a paper to the Royal Society of Sciences in Uppsala, the oldest Swedish scientific society, founded in 1710.
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Having spent a productive year there, Shepard won a scholarship to the Royal Academy Schools
The government spent much of its revenue on a superb Royal Navy, which not only protected the British colonies but threatened the colonies of the other empires, and sometimes seized them.
He spent some months in the Royal Army Pay Corps, and then taught at Chigwell School for six months in 1919 before returning to Cambridge.
Born in Dronrijp, the Netherlands, and trained at the Royal Academy of Antwerp, Belgium, he settled in England in 1870 and spent the rest of his life there.
The British Royal Navy initiated Operation Rheostat and Task Group 65. 2 provided the RN Minehunters, HMS Maxton, HMS Bossington, HMS Wilton and HMS Abdiel, a Practice Minelayer / MCMV Support Ship which spent two periods of 6 months in 1974 and in 1975 based at Ismailia.
During the last few years of his life Boole worked on a second edition of his Differential Equations, and part of his last vacation was spent in the libraries of the Royal Society and the British Museum ; but it was left incomplete.
Margaret's early life was spent primarily at the Yorks ' residences at 145 Piccadilly ( their town house in London ) or Royal Lodge in Windsor.
On January 17, 1816, he was elected an honorary member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences, and in 1818, he was appointed chancellor of Uppsala University, where he spent one semester.
As Astronomer Royal, Flamsteed spent some forty years observing and making meticulous records for his star catalogue, which would eventually triple the number of entries in Tycho Brahe's sky atlas.
The Society had just spent its book budget on a History of Fishes, and the cost of publication was borne by Edmund Halley ( who was also then acting as publisher of the Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society ): the book appeared in summer 1687.
He spent much of his leisure time in the town and constructed the Royal Pavilion during the early part of his Regency.
Heath spent the winter of 1939 – 40 on a debating tour of the United States before being called up, and early in 1941 was commissioned into the Royal Artillery.
After leaving school, Deighton worked as a railway clerk before performing his National Service, which he spent as a photographer for the Royal Air Force's Special Investigation Branch.
Nielsen spent several years living in Fort Norman ( now Tulita ), Northwest Territories where his father was stationed with the Royal Canadian Mounted Police.
His second, Loitering With Intent: The Apprentice, is about his years spent training with a cadre of friends at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art.
She also spent a week performing the work at the Theatre Royal in Bath in September 2008.
Renting a room in Bloomsbury, an area of central London, he initially found it hard to gain work, but spent much time studying at the nearby British Museum and the library of the Royal Anthropological Institute.
He spent two years at Royal Roads Military College, in Victoria, British Columbia followed by two years at the Royal Military College of Canada in Kingston, Ontario where he received a bachelor's degree in Mechanical Engineering ( with honors ) in 1982.
Among the hospital patients who escaped were a Corporal Mayer of the NNC ; Bombardier Lewis of the Royal Artillery and Trooper Green of the Natal Mounted Police who was wounded in the thigh by a spent bullet.
He spent the remainder of the 1970s working on Hitler's War and the War Path, his two-part biography of Adolf Hitler ; The Trail of the Fox, a biography of Field Marshal Erwin Rommel ; and a series in the Sunday Express describing the Royal Air Force's famous Dam Busters raid.
Having read English history for years as a hobby, and not satisfied with the books written about King Richard III, Fields spent four years researching and two years writing the non-fiction book Royal Blood: Richard III and the Mystery of the Princes ( ISBN 0-06-039269-X ), which was published in 1998.
In late 1830, as the infamous ' Black Line ' ( also known as the Black War ) was being disbanded elsewhere in Tasmania, George Augustus Robinson spent a week in north-east Tasmania, searching without success, for the " Ben Lomond-Penny Royal Creek people ".
They spent some time in the Netherlands in the 1970s and then returned to England where they teamed up with another Royal College student, Keith Griffiths, who produced all of their films.
After five years he moved again to Karlsruhe, where he spent the last years of his life at the Royal Konservatorium struggling to raise the modest courtly musical establishment to respectability.
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