New Year Honours 2020
Nicholas Woodhouse CBE
Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE)
“For services to Mathematics.”
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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
28 December 2019
THE QUEEN has been graciously pleased to give orders for the following promotions in, and appointments to, the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire:
C.B.E.
To be Ordinary Commanders of the Civil Division of the said Most Excellent Order:
Professor Nicholas Michael John WOODHOUSE
Emeritus Professor of Mathematics, University of Oxford
For services to Mathematics.
Source: The London Gazette, issue 62866 · Crown copyright, Open Government Licence v3.0
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“For services to Mathematics.”
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Commander of the Order of the British Empire · 2020
London Gazette (official record), issue 62866, notice 3454820. View the official notice ↗
Cabinet Office / gov.uk published honours list (New Year Honours List 2020).
Published 27 December 2019.
Location (Oxford, Oxfordshire) comes from the Cabinet Office / gov.uk published honours list, not the Gazette notice, which records no recipient home location.
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