Caltech's Garnet Kin-Lic Chan, Bren Professor of Chemistry and director of the Rudolph A. Marcus Center for Theoretical Chemistry, and Michael Elowitz, Roscoe Gilkey Dickinson Professor of Biology and Bioengineering and Howard Hughes Medical Institute Investigator, have been named a fellow and a foreign member, respectively, of the Royal Society, the United Kingdom's national academy of sciences. Founded in 1660 under the patronage of King Charles II, the Royal Society is the oldest scientific academy in continuous existence. Chan and Elowitz are among more than 90 inductees to the society this year. I am delighted to welcome this newest group of exceptional scientists to the Fellowship of the Royal Society," said Sir Paul Nurse , president of the Royal Society, in a statement . "Their contributions reflect the highest standards of scientific endeavour.…