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News News Items Queen's Birthday Honours List and the Royal Society's 2010 medals.
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In the Queen's birthday honours, Professor Athene Donald, who is Deputy Head of the Cavendish Laboratory and Director of the Women in Science, Engineering and Technology Initiatives (WiSETI), and Professor Julia Goodfellow, vice-chancellor of the University of Kent, have both become dames. Professor Colin Humphreys, who is director of research in the Department of Materials Science and Metallurgy at the University of Cambridge, has received a knighthood.
Professor Brian Cox, professor of physics at the University of Manchester and well known science communicator, and Dr Deborah Smith, Director of the Building Research Establishment, have both received OBEs. Jerry Cowhig, Managing Director of IOP Publishing (IOPP), has received an MBE for 'services to science'. Jerry has led IOPP for 15 years, and has been instrumental in the company's impressive international growth. Alongside the Queen's honours, the Royal Society also announced their 2010 awards last week, including a number of IOP fellows. The IOP's President, Professor Dame Jocelyn Bell Burnell was awarded the Faraday Prize for excellence in communicating science. For research in their respective fields, Professor Sir Peter Knight was awarded one of the Royal Medals; Professor Gilbert Lonzarich the Rumford Medal; Professor Andre Geim the Hughes Medal; and Professor S. Ravi P. Silva the Clifford Paterson Lecture.
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