Awards and Honours
- Helen Keller International Award (1970)
- World Humanity Award (1978)
- Royal Society of Medicine's Richard T. Hewitt Award (1991)
- Albert Schweitzer International Prize (1993).
- OBE (1955)
- CBE (1965)
- Knighthood (1975)
- Albert Lasker Public Service Award (1979)
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“Vain men delight in telling what Honours have been done them, what great Company they have kept, and the like; by which they plainly confess, that these Honours were more than their Due, and such as their Friends would not believe if they had not been told: Whereas a Man truly proud, thinks the greatest Honours below his Merit, and consequently scorns to boast. I therefore deliver it as a Maxim that whoever desires the Character of a proud Man, ought to conceal his Vanity.”
—Jonathan Swift (1667–1745)