Colin Pillinger - Awards

Awards

Chronology of qualifications, career, and awards:

• 1965 (1965) – B.Sc (Chemistry) from University College of Swansea
• 1968 (1968) – Ph.D (Chemistry) from University College of Swansea
• 1968 (1968) – Post-doctoral fellow, University of Bristol Department of Chemistry
• 1972 (1972) – Fellow, Cambridge University
• 1974 (1974) – Research Associate, Cambridge University
• 1976 (1976) – Senior Research Associate, Department of Earth Science, University of Cambridge
• 1981 (1981) – Fellow of the Royal Astronomical Society
• 1981 (1981) – member of the British Mass Spectrometry Society
• 1984 (1984) – Honorary D.Sc (Chemistry) from University of Bristol
• 1984 (1984) – Senior Research Fellow, Department of Earth Science, Open University
• 1986 (1986) – Fellow of the Meteoritical Society
• 1991 (1991) – made Professor of Planetary Sciences at the Open University
• 1993 (1993) – member of the IAU
• 1993 (1993) – Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society
• 1993 (1993) – elected a Fellow of the Royal Society
• 1996 (1996) – Professor of Astronomy at Gresham College in the City of London (until 2000)
• 2003 (2003) – made a CBE
• 2003 (2003) – Top Gear boffin burn-out 1st place.
• 2011 (2011) – recipient of the Michael Faraday Prize