Richard J. Roberts: Difference between revisions

Roberts was elected a [[List of Fellows of the Royal Society elected in 1995|Fellow of the Royal Society (FRS) in 1995]]<ref name=frs>{{cite web|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20151006213105/https://royalsociety.org/people/richard-roberts-12188/ |archivedate=2015-10-06 |url=https://royalsociety.org/people/richard-roberts-12188/ |title=Sir Richard Roberts FRS |publisher=[[Royal Society]] |location=London |author=Anon |year=1995 }} One or more of the preceding sentences incorporates text from the royalsociety.org website where: {{quote|“All text published under the heading 'Biography' on Fellow profile pages is available under [[Creative Commons license|Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License]].” --{{cite web|url=https://royalsociety.org/about-us/terms-conditions-policies/ |title=Royal Society Terms, conditions and policies |accessdate=2016-03-09 |deadurlurl-status=bot: unknown |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20150925220834/https://royalsociety.org/about-us/terms-conditions-policies/ |archivedate=25 September 2015 |df=dmy }}}}</ref> and a [[EMBO Member|member of the European Molecular Biology Organization (EMBO)]] in the same year.<ref name=membo/> In 2005, a multimillion-pound expansion to the chemistry department at the [[University of Sheffield]], where he had been a student, was named after him. A refurbished science department at [[Beechen Cliff School]] (previously City of Bath Boys' School) was also named after Roberts, who had donated a substantial sum of his Nobel prize winnings to the school.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://support.beechencliff.org.uk/prospect/prospectus3.html|title=Beechen Cliff School website}} {{dead link|date=August 2016}}</ref>