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Britain’s Royal Society celebrates its 350th anniversary

JUN 25, 2010
Physics Today
Nature : This week the world’s oldest scientific society still in existence, Britain’s Royal Society, is throwing parties, staging TV debates, holding public lectures, and otherwise celebrating its 350th birthday. In a news feature, Nature‘s Colin Macilwain examines how the society has changed from the age of Isaac Newton to the age of Stephen Hawking.
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