List of fellows of the Royal Society elected in 1789

This is a list of fellows of the Royal Society elected in 1789.

Fellows James Adair (c.1743–1798), Irish Sergeant-at-Law Abraham Bennet (1749–1799), clergyman and physicist Claude Louis, Count Berthollet (1748–1822), French chemist Johann Elert Bode (1747–1826), German astronomer Jean Dominique Cassini, Count of Thury (1748–1845), French astronomer Jonathan Davies (1736–1809), Eton headmaster Sampson Eardley, Baron Eardley (died 1824) Richard Fitzwilliam, 7th Viscount Fitzwilliam of Meryon (1745–1816) Frederick Augustus, Duke of York and Albany (1763–1827), Royal Member Adrien Marie Le Gendre (1752–1833), French mathematician John Gillies (1747–1836), historian Samuel Goodenough, Bishop of Carlisle (1743–1827) Henry Frederick William, Duke of Cumberland and Strathearn (1745–1790), Royal Member Ewald Friedrich Herzberg (1725–1795), Prussian statesman Christian Gottlob Heyne (1729–1812), German archaeologist Edward Jenner (1749–1823), physician Abraham Gotthelf Kastner (1719–1800), German mathematician Pierre Simon Laplace (1749–1827), French scholar Pierre François Andre Méchain (1744–1805), French astronomer John David Michaelis (1717–1791), Prussian scholar Robert Morse (1743–1818), military engineer George Rogers (died 1816), Navy commissioner George Shaw (1751–1813), botanist and zoologist Johann Karl Wilcke (1732–1796), Swedish physicist Robert Wood, MP

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