When the Academy was founded in 1954 there were 24 members, known as the Foundation Fellows:

Australian College of Veterinary Scientists; Foundation Fellow and President 1976-1977.

Plummer is a Foundation Fellow of the Institute of Combinatorics and its Applications.

Foundation Fellow of the West Bengal Academy of Science and Technology.

He was appointed a Foundation Fellow of New Hall, Cambridge in 2001.

Foundation Fellows and the Ramsey Scholars programs are housed within the Honors program.

In 1954 he became a Foundation Fellow of the Australian Academy of Science.

At the occasion, eminent scientists were elected as Foundation Fellows of the proposed Academy.

He was a Foundation Fellow of the Australian Academy of Science.

Foundation Fellow of the Australian Academy of Science, 1954.