Alec Jeffreys - Awards and Recognition

Awards and Recognition

  • 20 March 1986 – Fellow of the Royal Society.
  • 1989 – Midlander of the Year.
  • 1991 – Appointed as a Royal Society Research Professor.
  • 26 November 1992 – Honorary freeman of the City of Leicester.
  • 1994 – Knighted.
  • 1996 – Albert Einstein World Award of Science.
  • 1998 – Australia Prize.
  • 1999 – Stokes Medal
  • 2004 – Honorary doctorate awarded by the University of Leicester, where Jeffreys is a member of staff.
  • 2004 – Royal Medal of the Royal Society.
  • 2004 – Pride of Britain Award for Lifetime Achievement.
  • 2004 – Louis-Jeantet Prize for Medicine.
  • 2005 – Albert Lasker Award for Clinical Medical Research, jointly with Edwin Southern of the University of Oxford.
  • 2005 – United States National Academy of Science, elected member.
  • December 2006 – Degree of Doctor of Science (Honoris Causa) by the University of Liverpool.
  • 2006 – Morgan Stanley Great Briton Award for the Greatest Briton of the year, winner in the category of Science and Innovation, as well as the overall winner.
  • 2006 – Dr A.H. Heineken Prize for Biochemistry and Biophysics.
  • 8 March 2007 – Honorary degree from King's College London.
  • 23 January 2008 – Graham Medal of the Glasgow Philosophical Society, awarded after he gave his lecture "DNA Profiling; Past, present and future", which was nominated as the Graham Lecture.
  • 16 November 2009 – Awarded Honorary Doctor of Science by the University of Huddersfield
  • 14 April 2010 – Awarded Edinburgh Medal
  • 21 February 2011 – Awarded ABRF Annual Award

Read more about this topic:  Alec Jeffreys

Famous quotes containing the word recognition:

    “By now, legions of tireless essayists and op-ed columnists have dressed feminists down for making such a fuss about entering the professions and earning equal pay that everyone’s attention has been distracted from the important contributions of mothers working at home. This judgment presumes, of course, that prior to the resurgence of feminism in the ‘70s, housewives and mothers enjoyed wide recognition and honor. This was not exactly the case.”
    —Mary Kay Blakely (20th century)