South African scientist formally inducted into the world’s oldest academy of sciences

National Research Foundation (NRF) board member Professor Glenda Gray has been inducted as a Fellow of the world’s oldest and one of its most prestigious academies of sciences – the UK’s Royal Society. This was founded in 1660 and its list of Fellows and foreign (that is, non-British and non-Commonwealth) members included virtually all, if not all, of the great scientists of the past 366 years. Gray, who could now put the letters FRS after her name, was elected to the Society last year, but ...

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