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Announcing our newly elected Fellows - leading scientists from across the world ow.ly/Otqt30jUjZ5 #RSFellows

Tracy Palmer is a professor of molecular microbiology @dundeeuni & one of the co-discoverers of the bacterial Tat protein secretion system ow.ly/sHRX30jUlWM #RSFellows

Demis Hassabis is the Founder & CEO of @DeepMindAI a neuroscience-inspired AI company which develops general-purpose learning algorithms & uses them to tackle some of the world’s most pressing challenges ow.ly/6nFc30jUmtv #RSFellows

Theoretical physicist, author & broadcaster Jim Al-Khalili is a professor of theoretical physics & chair in the public engagement in science @UniOfSurrey ow.ly/NLI930jUl2B #RSFellows

Physicist Fabiola Gianotti is the Director-General @CERN & was the project leader of the ATLAS experiment at the time of the discovery of the Higgs boson in 2012 ow.ly/htft30jUldu #RSFellows

Computer scientist Peter O’Hearn has made major contributions to the science & engineering of programme correctness & is known for separation logic ow.ly/nMEp30jUqmG #RSFellows

Professor Polly Arnold holds the Crum Brown Chair of Chemistry @EdinburghUni & is an active advocate for inclusion & diversity in #STEM ow.ly/Tguf30jUy5w #RSFellows

Biologist John Speakman is a chair in zoology at the Institute of Biological and Environmental Sciences @aberdeenuni & a ‘1000 talents’ professor at the Institute of Genetics and Developmental Biology, Chinese Academy of Sciences ow.ly/g7eB30jUD70 #RSFellows

Professor Sheila Rowan is an experimental physicist, director of the Institute for Gravitational Research @UofGlasgow & chief scientific advisor to the Scottish Government ow.ly/lOul30jUFnD #RSFellows

Elon Musk is an internationally renowned engineer, inventor & entrepreneur. He is CEO & Chief Designer, Space Exploration Technologies Corporation ow.ly/U1IA30jUHnf #RSFellows (Pic: Steve Jurvetson)

Professor Ingrid Scheffer is an Australian clinician-scientist whose work as a paediatric neurologist & epileptologist has transformed understanding of epilepsy ow.ly/FP6Y30jUL84 #RSFellows

Palaeontologist Dr Gregory Edgecombe is a leading figure in the study of arthropod evolution & Merit Researcher @NHM_London ow.ly/AXzM30jVFOq #RSFellows

Professor Richard Dixon is a distinguished research professor @UNTsocial & has been a world leader in the field of plant specialized metabolism for over 30 years ow.ly/pDyB30jVQip #RSFellows

Margaret Brimble is a distinguished professor @AucklandUni where her research programme focuses on the synthesis of bioactive natural products & peptides as potential new medicines ow.ly/SeCO30jVSZS #RSFellows

Graeme Jameson is a laureate professor @Uni_Newcastle. His research led to the introduction of a radical new device, the Jameson Cell, for the recovery of very fine particles, and more recently, a new way of recovering coarse particles ow.ly/JhFZ30jWEAX #RSFellows

Dr Judy Hirst is a physical chemist who combines structural, biochemical & chemical techniques to pioneer studies of energy conversion in complex redox enzymes. Hirst is deputy director @MRC_MBU ow.ly/nwBe30jWURg #RSFellows

Professor Dominic Kwiatkowski is the head of parasites & microbes programme @sangerinstitute & applies genomics & computational analysis to problems in infectious disease ow.ly/YM9z30jZ3N0 #RSFellows

Guy Wilkinson is a professor of physics @UniofOxford who studies CP-violation. He was also a founding member of the LHCb experiment on the Large Hadron Collider @CERN ow.ly/C1ER30jZekq #RSfellows

Professor Catherine Martin's contributions to plant biology have combined plant genetics & metabolism to provide new insights into plant developmental & metabolic processes @JohnInnesCentre ow.ly/ZmxB30k0gMK #RSFellows

Professor Roger Goody is an Emeritus Director @mpimoph & has combined chemistry, structural biology & kinetics to make major contributions in several fields of biology ow.ly/Xq7G30k0pWc #RSFellows

Francesco Caruso is a Melbourne laureate professor & @nhmrc senior principal research fellow @unimelb. He was awarded the @CSIROnews eureka prize for leadership in science in 2013 ow.ly/LC8E30k0xnC #RSfellows