Three members of ICTP Scientific Council are among the six Foreign Members recently elected to the Royal Society for 2006. They are: Nobel Laureate Kenneth Arrow (ICTP Scientific Council Member 2002-2005), Edouard BrÃ©zin (ICTP Scientific Council Member 1996-2003) and Nobel Laureate Paul Crutzen (ICTP Scientific Council since 2004).
Other eminent scientists also earning membership in the Royal Society include the following speakers at ICTP activities: Stephen Barnett, University of Strathclyde; Charles Thomas Bayley Foxon, University of Nottingham; Karl John Friston, University College London; Mriganka Sur, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA; Peter Christopher West, King’s College London; and David Phillip Woodruff, University of Warwick. For the complete roster of members in the Royal Society, one of the world’s oldest and most prestigious science academies, see www.royalsoc.ac.uk.