Awards/honours
Milner has received numerous awards including memberships in the Royal Society, the Royal Society of Canada and the National Academy of Sciences.
In 1984 she was made an Officer of the Order of Canada and was promoted to Companion in 2004. Also in 2004, she was awarded the NAS Award in the Neurosciences from the National Academy of Science. In 1985, she was made an Officer of the National Order of Quebec and was promoted to Grand Officer in 2009. Dr. Milner won the Gairdner Foundation International Award in 2005 and the Balzan prize in 2009 "for her pioneering studies of the role of the hippocampus in the formation of memory and her identification of different kinds of memory system". Milner is also the latest recipient of the Pearl Meister Greengard Prize from Rockefeller University.
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