Awards and Honours
Osborne was awarded an honorary professorship at Kiev University in the Ukraine in recognition of her research on the Chernobyl disaster, as well as an honorary research fellowship from Somerville College, Oxford. She received honorary doctorates from the UK's Open University and from the University of Natal, South Africa. She was awarded the Sircar Memorial Gold Medal for Research in Physiology of the University of Calcutta in 1983. She was elected a corresponding member of the Botanical Society of America in 1996. In January 2008, a commemorative issue of the journal Annals of Botany was published in her honour.
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