Firstly the cat had forgotten itself on the kitchen table, but even more ordure was to be found on the telvision. Her Majesty’s birthday honours list has been announced. Had one listened solely to the British Broadcasting Corporation, one would have imagined that the entire list was four entertainers, two sports men and a kindly elderly lady from Stowe when has run a garden century for more than a century. And nothing, it was said in tones which suggested a conspiracy, for a man called ‘Brucie’. Perhaps he has committed a similar indiscretion to my cat in the presence of a minor Royal.
Scientists must have done nothing of honourable note in the year 2007-8, I hypothesised, and went in search of the data. My hypothesis was unsound. So to fill in the missing links in the BBC report, my congratulations (and I am sure those of all at NN) on their knighthoods to:
Professor Andrew James McMichael, FRS Professor of Molecular Medicine and Director, Weatherall Institute of Molecular Medicine, University of
Oxford.
Professor Nicholas John Wald Professor of Environmental and Preventive Medicine, Wolfson Institute of Preventive Medicine, Queen Mary,
University of London
CBEs felicitations to:
Professor John Cleland, FBA Professor of Medical Demography, London School of Hygiene and Tropical
Medicine.
(gee rrata)
Professor Peter Simon Liss Professor, School of Environmental Sciences, University of East Anglia. For services to Science.
(/geerrata)
Professor Hugh McKenna, Dean, Faculty of Life and Health Sciences, University of Ulster.
Professor Michael John Pilling Lately Director, Natural Environment Research Council Distributed Institute for Atmospheric Composition, University
of Leeds
And scientific OBEs to:
Professor Frances Rosemary Balkwill Professor of Cancer Biology, Queen Mary, University of London.
Professor Frederick Michael Burdekin, FRS Emeritus Professor, University of Manchester.
Professor John Richard Coggins, FRSE Vice-Principal, Faculties of Biomedical and Life Sciences, Clinical Medicine and Veterinary Medicine, University of Glasgow
Professor John Cummings Professor of Experimental
Gastroenterology, University of Dundee.
Dr Paul Andrew Hollinshead Lately Director of Science and Technology, Ministry of Defence.
Dr Susan Ann Jebb Head of Nutrition and Health Research, Medical Research Council Human Nutrition Research Unit, Cambridge. For services to Public Health.
Professor Richard Donovan Kenway, FRSE Vice-Principal, High Performance Computing and e-Science and Tait Professor of Mathematical Physics, University of Edinburgh.
Dr James Michael Penman Head of Response Strategies Branch, Climate, Energy and Ozone Science and Analysis Division, Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs.
Professor Julia Mary Slingo Director of Climate Research, National Centre for Atmospheric Science,
University of Reading.
Dr Timothy Wreghitt Regional Microbiologist, Health
Protection Agency, East of England.
My heartfelt congratulation to all: ornaments to their respective fields I am sure. I shall peruse the list of MBEs when I have cleaned up after the cat.
Thanks for this list. I had a quick look but didn’t spot all these.
I so agree about the way the news media just focus on “celeb”, sports and arts honours. Why doesn’t scientific endeavour merit the same attention as artistic endeavour?
Agreed. I was shocked that The Times (“the paper of record” as it calls itself) had a full page (3) devoted to singers who don’t sing, etc, and one had to delve deep into the sub-pages to find a very small-print list. So thank you for this list. At least someone in Whitehall is thinking about science.
We take higher education very seriously here in Norfolk.
The BBC have published this article, which may please you, Charles.
And this was in the article linked to, halfway down the page:
In the diplomatic list for Britons based abroad, Nobel prize winner Dr Richard Roberts is knighted for services to molecular biology and science; neurologist and best-selling writer Dr Oliver Sacks gets a CBE for services to medicine,
I did not intend to slight the splendid Professor Liss, indeed I remember typing his name in but it was eaten my the NN blogging software. Please pass on my apologies when you met him at your club.
…eaten by the NN…
…meet him at your club.
Ah, clubs! Those were the days!
As the masochistic Canadian seal cub said.
Here is a longer list , including MBEs, from the DIUS website: