List of fellows of the Royal Society elected in 1979
# List of fellows of the Royal Society elected in 1979

Fellows of the Royal Society elected in 1979.

## Fellows

* Jerzy Neyman (1894–1981)
* Janet Vida Watson (1923–1985)
* Evelyn Martin Lansdowne Beale (1928–1985)
* Yakov Borisovich Zel'dovich (1914–1987)
* William Charles Evans (1911–1988)
* Dame Janet Maria Vaughan (1899–1993)
* Alastair Graham (1906–2000)
* Patrick Anthony Merton (1920–2000)
* Julius Axelrod (1912–2004)
* Digby Johns McLaren (1919–2004)
* John Maxwell Cowley (1923–2004)
* Winifred Anne Tutin (1915–2007)
* Durward William John Cruickshank (1927–2007)
* John Hilton Edwards (d. 2007)
* Michael Elliott (d. 2007)
* Joshua Lederberg (d. 2008)
* Milton Robert James Salton (d. 2008)
* Olgierd Cecil Zienkiewicz (d. 2009)
* Harry Smith (1921–2011)
* Sir Bernard Crossland (d. 2011)
* David Alan Walker (1928–2012)
* Godfrey Harry Stafford (1920–2013)
* Sir Kenneth Murray (1930–2013)
* John Robert Laurence Allen
* Michael Farries Ashby
* Michael Joseph Crumpton
* Sir Michael Anthony Epstein
* Raymond Freeman
* Sir Richard Lavenham Gardner
* Cyril Hilsum
* Sir David Alan Hopwood
* Keith Usherwood Ingold
* Edward Irving
* Geoffrey Melvill Jones
* Devendra Lal
* Michael Franz Lappert
* Ian Grant Macdonald
* Robert McCredie May Baron May of Oxford
* Brenda Atkinson Milner
* Denis Noble
* Martin John Rees Baron Rees of Ludlow
* Paul Harry Roberts
* John Griggs Thompson
* David James Thouless (1934–2019)
