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Presidents of The Royal Society

Based on the clues, guess these scientists and statesmen who were also the presidents of the Royal Society of London for the given years.
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Architect of St. Paul's Cathedral
1680-1682
Christopher Wren
Politician and administrator of the Royal Navy
1685-1686
Samuel Pepys
Chancellor of the Exchequer and poet
1695-1698
Charles Montagu
Physicist and mathematician, co-invented the calculus
1703–1727
Isaac Newton
Botanist, took part in James Cook's first voyage
1778-1820
Joseph Banks
Chemist, invented electrochemistry
1820-1827
Humphry Davy
Botanist, founded geographical botany
1873–1878
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Biologist, coined the word "agnostic"
1883-1885
Thomas Henry Huxley
Mathematical physicist, formulated the first and second laws of thermodynamics
1890-1895
Lord Kelvin
Surgeon, pioneer of antiseptic surgery
1895-1900
Joseph Lister
Physicist, discovered surface waves and argon
1905-1908
Lord Rayleigh
Physicist, discovered electron
1915-1920
Joseph John Thomson
Neurophysiologist, discovered the synaptic communication between neurons
1920-1925
Charles Scott Sherrington
Physicist, discovered radioactive half-life
1925-1930
Ernest Rutherford
Biochemist, co-discovered the vitamins
1930-1935
Frederick Gowland Hopkins
Physicist, introduced analysis of crystal structure by X-rays
1935-1940
William Henry Bragg
Physicist, developed operational research in WW2
1965-1970
Patrick Blackett
Biophysicist, co-discovered the propagation of nerve impulses
1970-1975
Alan Lloyd Hodgkin
Biophysicist, co-discovered the propagation of nerve impulses
1980-1985
Andrew Huxley
Mathematician, introduced topological K-theory
1990-1995
Michael Atiyah
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