Cambridge Philosophical Society
The Cambridge Philosophical Society (CPS) is a British scientific society founded in 1819 to promote the natural sciences.
It was founded in Cambridge in 1819 by Adam Sedgwick and John Stevens Henslow so that university graduates could discuss scientific topics there. Scientific research in the natural sciences and mathematics was at a loss at the university at that time. Soon after its inception, the society had built up an extensive library (later the University's Central Science Library) and the first science museum in Cambridge (later the Museum of Zoology). Members of the society also engaged in curriculum reform at Cambridge University in the natural sciences. Since 1819 there have been meetings of the society every two weeks.
The Society has the journals Biological Reviews (since 1926) and the Mathematical Proceedings of the Cambridge Philosophical Society (Math. Proc. Camb. Philos. Soc., Previously Proceedings of the Cambridge Philosophical Society), which appear from 1843 (ISSN 0305-0041 ). They appear every two months and cover all areas of mathematics as well as mathematical and theoretical physics. Between 1821 and 1928 there was also the Transactions of the Cambridge Philosophical Society.
There are honorary members and fellows (abbreviation FCPS). A fellow is elected on the recommendation of a member (who must have been a member for at least three years) and a person with a scientific reputation in the respective field of knowledge.
Since 2010 they have been awarding a three-year Henslow fellowship to post-doctoral students.
literature
- A. Rupert Hall : The Cambridge Philosophical Society: A History 1819-1969 . Cambridge Philosophical Society, 1969