Appointments and Distinctions

Academic Honours

Academic Honours and Distinctions

1994 S. Balasubramanian, 2020 Millennium Technology Prize; 2022 Breakthrough Prize in Life Sciences. 1996 C. S. Barnard, Cassis de Dijon: 40 Years On (Editor). 1995 S. Baron-Cohen, Knight Bachelor, for services to people with autism; The Pattern Seekers: A New Theory of Human Invention. 2020 J. Borcherding, @yourcambridgesu 2021 Student-Led Teaching Award nominee, for small group teaching. 1979 M. E. Cates, International Member of the National Academy of Sciences (US).

2019 S. Davies, 2020 Nelson Mandela Prize for Health Promotion, World Health Organisation; Fellow, Science Museum UK; Honorary Doctorate University of British Columbia; Honorary Doctorate, University of Oxford. 2002 R. C. Fitzgerald, Member, European Molecular Biology Organisation. 1994 V. Gibson, OBE for services to science, women in science and public engagement. 1983 N. Hopkinson, A Hellenistic Anthology (2nd Edition). 2011 O. B. Linton, President, Society for Financial Econometrics 2021–2023.

2011 C. A. Petrie, @yourcambridgesu 2021 Student-Led Teaching Award, for innovative teaching. 1960 M. J. Rees, Appointed to Strategic Council for Research Excellence, Integrity & Trust, National Academy of Sciences; Gravity’s Fatal Attraction, (3rd Edition).

1953 A. K. Sen, Peace Prize of the German Book Trade, 2020; Princess of Asturias Award, Spain, 2021; Doctor Honoris Causa, State University of Maranhão, Brazil, 2021; Home in the World. A Memoir, 2021.

2021 J. Thorne, 2022 New Horizons Mathematics Prize.

1970 G.P. Winter, Honorary Doctorate, KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm.

2018 A. Smith, 2021 Hay Festival Medal for Prose; 2021 Orwell Prize for Political Fiction, for Summer.

2019 C. Fonseca, Granta 2020 best young Spanish-language novelists list. 2019 D. R. Larsen, Plotting for Peace: American Peacemakers, British Codebreakers, and Britain at War, 1914–1917.

Ian Olsson

Alumni and their families enjoying ‘Trinity on the Backs’ picnics, August 2021.