Birthday Honours 2015
Frances Ashcroft DBE
Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire (DBE)
Professor of Physiology
“Professor of Physiology, University of Oxford. For services to Medical Science and the Public Understanding of Science.”
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Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire (DBE)
Professor of Physiology, University of Oxford. For services to Medical Science and the Public Understanding of Science.
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London Gazette notice
Order of the British Empire
Civil Division
Central Chancery of the Orders of Knighthood
St. James’s Palace, London SW1
13 June 2015
THE QUEEN has been graciously pleased, on the occasion of the Celebration of Her Majesty's Birthday, to give orders for the following promotions in, and appointments to, the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire:
D.B.E.
To be Ordinary Dames Commander of the Civil Division of the said Most Excellent Order:
Professor Frances Mary ASHCROFT F.R.S.
Professor of Physiology, University of Oxford
For services to Medical Science and the Public Understanding of Science.
Source: The London Gazette, issue 61256 · Crown copyright, Open Government Licence v3.0
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