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
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