Royal Society
Shown at the organisation’s headquarters. It was mentioned on the show, but not as a specific place, so the pin marks its home base.
About Royal Society
The Royal Society of London for Improving Natural Knowledge, commonly referred to as the Royal Society, is a learned society and the United Kingdom's national academy of sciences. The society fulfils a number of roles: promoting science and its benefits, recognising excellence in science, supporting outstanding science, providing scientific advice for policy, education and public engagement and fostering international and global co-operation. Founded on 28 November 1660, it was granted a royal charter by King Charles II and is the oldest continuously existing scientific academy in the world.
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A woman had a paper authored by her read out at the Royal Society, but she was not allowed in, so her husband had to read it out.
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More facts about Royal Society
The Royal Society spent its book-publishing funds on a book about fishes that flopped, which delayed Newton's Principia until Edmund Halley paid for its publication himself in 1687.
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