title: List of fellows of the Royal Society elected in 1979
text: # 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)
  