Distinguished Professor Asad M Madni elected Life Fellow of the Cambridge Philosophical Society and the Royal Society of Arts.
Distinguished Adjunct Professor Asad M Madni has been elected Life Fellow of the Cambridge Philosophical Society and the Royal Society of Arts.
The Cambridge Philosophical Society (CPS) is a scientific society at the University of Cambridge with a membership of over 2000. It was founded in 1819 and is Cambridge’s oldest scientific society The society was granted a royal charter by King William IV in 1832 and is governed by an elected council of senior academics.The society has published several scientific journals, including Biological Reviews (established 1926) and Mathematical Proceedings of the Cambridge Philosophical Society (formerly entitled Proceedings of the Cambridge Philosophical Society, published since 1843).
The Royal Society of Arts (RSA) was founded in 1754 as the Society for the Encouragement of Arts, Manufactures and Commerce, it was granted a Royal Charter in 1847, and the right to use the term “Royal” in its name by King Edward VII in 1908. RSAs mission expressed in the founding charter was to “embolden enterprise, enlarge science, refine art, improve our manufacturers and extend our commerce”, but also of the need to alleviate poverty and secure full employment. Notable Fellows include Charles Dickens, Benjamin Franklin, Stephen Hawking, Karl Marx, Adam Smith, Marie Curie, Nelson Mandela, David Attenborough, Judi Dench, William Hogarth, John Diefenbaker, and Tim Berners-Lee. Today, the RSA has fellows elected from 80 countries worldwide. The RSA’s Patron was Elizabeth II and its current president is The Princess Royal (who replaced her father, The Duke of Edinburgh, in 2011).
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