Professor Geraint Lewis has been involved in the translation of a classic work of Welsh science fiction: Wythnos yng Nghymru FyddRead More
Archive for the ‘Fellows’ Category
Society’s New Fellows Show Strength of Wales’ Academic and Intellectual Life
27 April, 2021
The Learned Society of Wales has welcomed 45 new academics, researchers and professionals to its Fellowship. The new Fellows demonstrate the ongoing excellence of Welsh research, universities and intellectual life, all of which have shone during the extraordinary events of this pa... Read More
News from our Fellows: Poets, Singers, Innovation, WISERD and the English
31 March, 2021
The Cardiff Poetry Festival takes place on 15th - 18th April. Professor Mererid Hopwood and Professor Menna Elfyn are participating and ... Read More
#ChooseToChallenge: International Women’s Day – A Message from the Society’s President
8 March, 2021
On International Women’s Day, I am pleased to reaffirm the Learned Society of Wales’ commitment to equality and diversity, and especially to the inclusion of women.
During the weeks to come, we will highlight the achievem... Read More
A Map of Bristol in 1480
22 January, 2021
Professor Helen Fulton has worked with the Historic Towns Trust and a team of Bristol historians and archaeologists to publish A Map of Bristol in 1480: A Medieval Merchant City.
The University of Wales Sir Ellis Griffith Memorial Prize 2020 has been awarded to Professor Hazel Walford Davies for her vo... Read More
Professor Gert Aarts FLSW appointed as Director of European Centre for Theoretical Nuclear Physics
5 January, 2021
News from one of our Fellows. Congratulations to Professor Gert Aarts FLSW.
Prof Gert Aarts FLSW, of Swansea University's Physics Department, has been appoi... Read More
Sir John Meurig Thomas
18 November, 2020
It is with much regret that we report the death of Sir John Meurig Thomas.
Sir John was renowned for his work in the science of catalysts and solid state chemistry. The production cha... Read More
Jeremy Hooker – Selected Poems 1965-2018
7 October, 2020
The Selected Poems 1965 - 2018 of Jeremy Hooker, Emeritus Professor of English at the University of South Wales, were publish... Read More
Professor Sir Vaughan Jones
8 September, 2020
We regret to report the death of Professor Sir Vaughan Jones, one of our Honorary Fellows.
Mathematics was revolutionised by Sir Vaughan in the early 1980s when he found deep connections between subfactors, analytic objects in the theory of o... Read More