On April 23, 2012 at Internet Society's Global INET conference in Geneva, Switzerland, Torvalds was one of the inaugural inductees into the Internet Hall of Fame, one of ten in the Innovators category and thirty-three overall inductees.

He contributed the lead article to the inaugural issue of the Society's journal Language, and was President of the Society in 1935.

In 1981 after the inaugural Space Shuttle flight, he received the Department of Defense Distinguished Service Award, the American Astronautical Society's Flight Achievement Award, the National Geographic Society's Gardiner Greene Hubbard Medal, and the American Legion's Distinguished Service Medal.

This book won the inaugural British Psychological Society's annual Book of the Year Award in 1993.

This had a number of effects on the Society: first, the Society's membership became almost entirely scientific, with few political Fellows or patrons.

The Society's core members are the Fellows: scientists and engineers from the United Kingdom and the Commonwealth selected based on having made " a substantial contribution to the improvement of natural knowledge, including mathematics, engineering science and medical science ".

Royal Fellows are those members of the Monarchy of the United Kingdom, who are recommended by the Society's Council and elected via postal vote.

According to the Society's archives there have been approximately 8, 500 Fellows of the society

He was presented with the Royal Society's highest honour, the Copley Medal, in 1734, 1736 and 1741, with the 1741 award being for his discovery of the properties of electricity .< ref > Fellows of the Royal Society-D. The Royal Society.

The Society's Board of Governors and its program committees are made up entirely of volunteers, many of whom are members of the College of Fellows.

The President, and other members of the executive, are elected by the College of Fellows at the Society's annual general meeting.

Hooke told Newton that Hooke had been appointed to manage the Royal Society's correspondence, and wished to hear from members about their researches, or their views about the researches of others ; and as if to whet Newton's interest, he asked what Newton thought about various matters, giving a whole list, mentioning " compounding the celestial motions of the planets of a direct motion by the tangent and an attractive motion towards the central body ", and " my hypothesis of the lawes or causes of springinesse ", and then a new hypothesis from Paris about planetary motions ( which Hooke described at length ), and then efforts to carry out or improve national surveys, the difference of latitude between London and Cambridge, and other items.

Hooke's ostensible purpose was to tell Newton that Hooke had been appointed to manage the Royal Society's correspondence.

He befriended Sir Joseph Paxton, then employed at the Royal Horticultural Society's Chiswick Gardens, located close to Devonshire's London estate Chiswick House, and appointed him his head gardener of Chatsworth House in 1826, despite Paxton being only in his early twenties at the time.

District overseers are appointed to oversee a number of circuits ; his responsibilities include spending a week with the circuit overseer of each circuit, and teaching students of the Watch Tower Society's Bible School for Single Brothers.

He won the Royal Television Society's Reporter of the Year award in 1977 and 1993, and was appointed an Officer of the Order of the British Empire ( OBE ) in 1992.

All lawyer-benchers are elected by the Society's members, and eight lay Benchers are appointed by the provincial government.

The Society's early meetings included experiments, demonstrated first by Hooke and then by Denis Papin, who was appointed in 1684.

Members of the Society began to collect material, much of which was published in the Society's journal Dialect Notes, but little was done toward compiling a dictionary recording nationwide usage until Frederic G. Cassidy was appointed Chief Editor in 1963.

Members of the Society began to collect material, much of which was published in the Society's journal Dialect Notes, but little was done toward compiling a dictionary recording nationwide usage until Frederic G. Cassidy was appointed Chief Editor in 1962.

In addition to the larger meetings previously listed, there are over 60 standing and special committees that SAR members are appointed to in order to oversee the Society's welfare.

All SAR members are welcome to participate on committees and are appointed by the Society's President General for a one year term.

Hooke had started an exchange of correspondence in November 1679 by writing to Newton, to tell Newton that Hooke had been appointed to manage the Royal Society's correspondence.

Jesse Hemery was appointed overseer of the Watch Tower Society's British Isles branch office by Russell in 1901, holding that post until 1946.

In 1867 he was appointed superintendent of the East Indian Marine Society's Museum at Salem.

In 2000 he was awarded the Royal Gold Medal, Scotland's supreme academic accolade, by Queen Elizabeth II, the only historian winner to date, and in 2005 was appointed OBE in the New Years Honours List for ' services to Scottish history '. In 2012 Devine won the Senior Royal Society of Edinburgh / Beltane Prize for Excellence in Public Engagement and in that year too the Society's Inaugural Sir Walter Scott Senior Prize for Excellence in the Humanities and Creative Arts.

On 24 September 2009, it was announced that Faces, minus Rod Stewart, would reunite for a one-off charity show for the Performing Rights Society's Music Members ' Benevolent Fund, at the Royal Albert Hall in London.

2009 marked the Bluebell Railway Preservation Society's 50th anniversary.

In 2009, the building won the Concrete Society's Mature Structures Award.

* Photographs of Stirling and Bridge of Allan Operatic Society's 2009 production of The Boy Friend

Discussions between the SSPX and the Holy See have been in progress for some years, and in January 2009 the Prefect of the Congregation for Bishops remitted the excommunications which the Congregation had declared to have been incurred by the Society's bishops in 1988.

In 2009, Evan Harris was awarded ( with Lord Avebury ) the National Secular Society's Secularist of the Year Award in recognition of his role in the abolition of the common law offence of blasphemous libel.

In 2009, Lord Avebury was awarded ( with Dr Evan Harris MP ) the National Secular Society's Secularist of the Year Award in recognition of his role in the abolition of the common law offence of Blasphemous Libel.

On October 30, 2009, the Honolulu Symphony Society's board of directors voted to file for Chapter 11 protection.

Recent additions include Eurofighter Typhoon DA4, one of seven Typhoon development aircraft, which was gifted to the museum by the Ministry of Defence in 2008 and went on display in June 2009. Notable civil aircraft include the Duxford Aviation Society's Concorde and Comet described above.

2009 marks the Society's 85th anniversary, and the Society will be initiating its 850, 000th lifetime member in late April / early May 2009.

From 2006 to 2009 the Onrust Project, a non-profit organization, under the guidance of Don Rittner and Greta Wagle built a replica of the Onrust at the Schenectady County Historical Society's Mabee Farm Historic Site in Rotterdam Junction, NY.

The Society's 2009 ' Originals ' prize was won jointly by Hilary Paynter and Chris Pig.

In 2009 / 10 the Society's income had grown to £ 58. 7 million and it currently ( 2012 ) has a network of over 2000 services.

From 1994 to 2005 he was the editor-in-chief of " News ' n Views " and " UpBeat ", publications written by and for people with Down syndrome, and in 2009 he contributed to the National Down Syndrome Society's My Great Story campaign by writing his story, " Great Expectations ".

In the 2009 fiscal year, The Anti-Cruelty Society's spay / neuter clinic — one of the highest volume spay / neuter clinics in the country — performed over 12, 000 surgeries.

* 2009: International Charlemagne Prize recognizing Andrea Riccardi, the Society's founder, as a " great European " whose life has been at the service of his neighbor.

* August 6 – 9, 2009: American Philatelic Society's StampShow.