Royal Society
Facts
40 properties- Instance of
- academy of sciences, publishing house, open-access publisher, learned society, national academy, organization[16][17][18][19][20]
- Field of work
- science, natural history, natural science[1][2][3]
- Award received
- Princess of Asturias Award for Communications and Humanities, Princess of Asturias Awards[4][5]
- Inception
- November 1, 1660[27]
- Country
- United Kingdom[15]
- Follows
- Invisible College[21]
- Official website
- royalsociety.org[29]
- Coordinate location
- 🗺️ 51.506°, -0.132°[28]
- Archives at
- Royal Society Archives[24]
- Bequest income
- 90k (26k–2.6M, n=6)
- Chairperson
- Adrian Smith[25]
- Described by source
- Otto's encyclopedia, The Nuttall Encyclopædia, Encyclopædia Britannica 11th edition[38][39][40]
- Donations
- 552k (543k–3.5M, n=9)
- Grants
- awards of the Royal Society (London)
- Has part(s)
- Royal Society Archives[26]
- Has works in the collection
- Australian National Maritime Museum
- Historic county
- Middlesex
- Industry
- higher education[23]
- Language used
- English
- Legal form
- royal charter company[44]as of 2026-09-26
where from?
- Edition
- 20260926 · as of 2026-09-26
- Credit
- Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.
- Bronze
- not in the catalog
- Transform
- 4ort-mint · companies_house · version not recorded
- Located in the administrative territorial entity
- London[14]as of 2026-10-21
where from?
- Record
- ror.org/03wnrjx87
- Edition
- 20261021 · as of 2026-10-21
- Bronze
7a7bf58d5ac18436…v2.15-2026-10-20-ror-data.zip- Transform
- 4ort-mint · ror:20261021 · version not recorded
- Maintained by WikiProject
- WikiProject Mathematics
Show all 40 facts +16
- Member count
- +1600, +1700
- Member of
- ORCID, Inc., Dryad, Committee on Publication Ethics, Society Publishers' Coalition, Open Access Scholarly Publishing Association, All European Academies, InterAcademy Partnership, International Science Council[6][7][8][9][10][11][12][13]
- Motto text
- Nullius in verba[43]
- Number of volunteers
- +50
- On focus list of Wikimedia project
- Wikidata:WikiProject Academic Publisher
- Owner of
- Arundel Manuscripts
- P14397
- 4110
- P14536
- 352462
- P14750
- F9DD-2D37-A415-18CF-193B
- Participant in
- OA Switchboard[41]
- Position held by head of the organization
- President of the Royal Society
- Replaces
- Invisible College[42]
- Social media followers
- +215000
- Sponsor
- Charles III[30]
- Total revenue
- 157.6M (85.2M–396.3M, n=9)
- ROR ID
- 03wnrjx87
- VIAF cluster ID
- 157503209
- Library of Congress authority ID
- n79127772
- GND ID
- 39272-8
- OpenAlex ID
- I1289762815, P4310319787
- GRID ID
- grid.421649.c
- Image (Wikimedia Commons)
- Royal Society 20040420.jpg ↗
- Alexander Turnbull Library ID
- 78456
- Art UK venue ID
- the-royal-society-7416
- Australian National Maritime Museum person ID
- 10888
- BAnQ authority ID
- 0000061412
Show all 116 identifiers +104
- BBC News topic ID
- c3q971pmyy3t
- BBC Things ID
- 7d7dd495-00da-4b19-bed0-04dafa6b0113
- BIBSYS ID
- 12067291
- BNB person ID (OBSOLETE)
- RoyalSociety(GreatBritain)
- BNMM authority ID
- 000069487
- BVMC organization ID
- 95654
- Bibliothèque nationale de France ID
- 121307601
- Brockhaus Enzyklopädie online ID
- royal-society
- CANTIC ID
- 981058512383106706
- Canadiana Name Authority ID
- ncf10156367
- Charity Commission no.
- 207043
- CiNii Research ID
- 1140845216758217728
- Companies House company ID
- RC000519
- Crunchbase organization ID
- royal-society-enterprise-fund
- ELNET ID
- a11879981
- EU Transparency Register ID
- 041898210470-66
- Early Modern Letters Online location ID
- 8073455f-d143-4bdb-85c2-a20a903f2289
- Edition humboldt digital ID
- H0000583
- Encyclopaedia Herder concept ID
- Royal_Society
- Encyclopædia Britannica Online ID
- topic/Royal-Society
- Encyclopædia Universalis ID
- royal-society
- Exact match
- findthatcharity.uk
- Facebook username
- theroyalsociety
- FactGrid item ID
- Buccino
- Freebase ID
- /m/02hcxm
- Google Arts & Culture partner ID
- the-royal-society
- Gran Enciclopèdia Catalana ID
- royal-society
- Gran Enciclopèdia Catalana ID (former scheme)
- 0057162
- Great Norwegian Encyclopedia ID
- Royal_Society
- Great Russian Encyclopedia Online ID (2017)
- 2157686
- Hill Museum & Manuscript Library ID
- organization/469265607363
- Hrvatska enciklopedija ID
- 53541
- ISIL
- GB-UkLoRS
- IdRef ID
- 122560485
- Instagram username
- theroyalsociety
- JSTOR publisher ID
- rsl
- KANTO ID
- 000017544
- KISTI ID
- K000360114
- Kalliope-Verbund (GND) ID
- 39272-8
- Kallías ID
- KS00056262, KS00134865
- Lex ID
- Royal_Society
- Libraries Australia ID
- 36101708
- Libris-URI
- khwz2c131swkqww
- LinkedIn company or organization ID
- the-royal-society
- Medvik ID
- ko2003162204
- Microsoft Academic ID (discontinued)
- 1289762815
- NACSIS-CAT author ID
- DA01352466
- NE.se ID
- royal-society
- NL CR AUT ID
- ko2003162204
- NSK (VIAF) ID
- 000645070
- NSK ID
- 981005692208909366
- NUKAT ID
- n00072588
- National Library of Brazil ID
- 001033978
- National Library of Chile ID
- 000021996
- National Library of Greece ID
- 242892
- National Library of Ireland ID
- vtls000097039
- National Library of Israel J9U ID
- 987007267476205171
- National Library of Lithuania ID
- LNB:oua;=CP
- National Library of Poland MMS ID
- 9810576273405606
- National Library of Portugal ID
- 366290
- National Library of Spain SpMaBN ID (BNE v1.0)
- XX102063
- National Library of Wales Authority ID
- royal-society, royal-society-great-britain
- National Virtual Library of India ID
- 854k (854k–854k, n=3)
- Open Funder Registry funder ID
- 501100000288
- Open Library ID
- OL1290127A, OL2760312A, OL4490896A
- OpenCorporates ID
- gb/RC000519
- OpenStreetMap node ID
- 454538468
- Post-Reformation Digital Library author ID
- 5029
- Proleksis enciklopedija ID
- 44380
- Publons publisher ID
- 118
- Quora topic ID
- The-Royal-Society
- RA Collections ID
- 13848
- RERO ID (legacy)
- A000139955
- Related category
- Category:Awards of the Royal Society
- Ringgold ID
- 61565
- RoMEO publisher ID
- 62
- Royal Academy ID
- royal-society-london-meeting, royal-society-london
- SAM ID
- HGLZZM5EN482
- SELIBR ID
- 251043
- SHARE Catalogue author ID
- 735674
- SNARC ID
- Euterpe
- Schoenberg Database of Manuscripts name ID
- 8530
- Science Museum people ID
- cp17351
- ScienceDirect topic ID
- mathematics/royal-society
- Scilit organization ID
- 14000
- Te Papa agent ID
- 6999
- The Independent topic ID
- the-royal-society
- Threads username
- theroyalsociety
- Topic's main category
- Category:Royal Society
- U.S. Copyright Office Public Records System name ID
- Royal Society, Royal Society of London, Royal Society, London
- UK Parliament thesaurus ID
- 67158
- Union List of Artist Names ID
- 500301966
- United Nations Terminology Database ID
- 99bba83e-d001-41dc-8e13-c5c444bc2325
- University of Barcelona authority ID
- 981058512383106706
- Vatican Library ID (former scheme)
- ADV10025955
- Vatican Library VcBA ID
- 494/45072
- Visuotinė lietuvių enciklopedija ID
- londono-karaliskoji-draugija
- Wolfram Language entity code
- Entity["Concept", "RoyalSociety::2gdy8"]
- X (Twitter) username
- royalsociety, RSocPublishing
- Yale LUX ID
- group/72280b07-811f-487e-946e-098b1fed5614
- YouTube channel ID
- UC5MOW8BO3dH38Fo3Rau17KQ
- ZbMATH author ID
- royal-society.
← Member of 4443
← Conferred by 35
← Affiliated with 13
← Publisher 10
← Sponsor 10
Employees / affiliates 8
Instance of 5
Member of 5
Field of work 3
Works by author 3
Award received 2
Chairperson 2
Described by source 2
Member category 2
Named after 2
← Has works in the collection 2
← Maintained by 2
Country 1
FactGrid item ID 1
Follows 1
Has works in the collection 1
Headquarters location 1
Historic county 1
Industry 1
Language used 1
Maintained by WikiProject 1
Owned entities 1
Participant in 1
Preceded by (successor) 1
Related category 1
Replaces 1
SNARC ID 1
Sponsor 1
Topic's main category 1
← Acknowledges 1
← Category combines topics 1
← Category's main topic 1
← Copyright holder 1
← Different from 1
← FactGrid item ID 1
← Parent organization or unit 1
← Signatory 1
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Brands and Namesakes
Things named for Royal Society include Royal Society Science Books Prize[45], a science award[46], in United Kingdom[47], founded in 1988[48] and Royal Society Range[49], a mountain range[50].
Why It Matters
Works attributed to Royal Society include Philosophical Transactions[51], a scientific journal[52], founded in 1665[53]; Philosophical Transactions of the it A[54], a scientific journal[55], founded in 1887[56]; and The Zoological Record[57], a citation index[58], founded in 1870[59]. Entities named for it include Royal Society Science Books Prize[45], a science award[46], in United Kingdom[47], founded in 1988[48] and Royal Society Range[49], a mountain range[50].
FAQs
What awards did Royal Society receive?
Honors received include Princess of Asturias Award for Communications and Humanities[4] and Princess of Asturias Awards[5].
high ≥ 0.90 · emerging ≥ 0.65 · low below — calibrated against hand-rated truth (single-source .44 · two-source .62 · production-typical .70), so a band is a measurement, not a promise. High is rare by design: it needs both a supported assertion and an evidence sentence. A confirmed or contradicted chip is a Wikidata cross-check; no chip means Wikidata has no value for that property — the ordinary case here, and it says nothing either way. A confirm-only note marks a property whose check can never disagree (Wikidata's border and capital data is not exhaustive), so silence there is a limit of the check, not of the claim.
served-tier precision 80.7% [76.2, 84.5] · rated rows currently served n=342 · entailment-gated at 0.85 · measured 2026-09-29 · re-scored every 10 min, demoted at the half-hourly fold
evidence “Commissioned by the Royal Society in London to settle a long-running and often bitter territorial dispute between two American colonies, Mason and Dixon embarked on a groundbreaking scientific expedition.” wharfedaleobserver.co.uk · read source
Show 2 low-confidence claims
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evidence “Sir Paul Nurse, President of the Royal Society, said:” miragenews.com · read source
evidence “In 1706, the Reverend Cotton Mather of the Massachusetts Bay Colony pronounced them to be "the remains of godless giants drowned in Noah's Flood." He sent some bones to the Royal Society in London to have them certified as evidence of this "wicked giant" because biblical scholars were calculating Adam's height at 123 ft.” livescience.com · read source