New Year Honours 2012
Professor Derek Jeffrey RAINE MBE
Member of the Order of the British Empire (MBE)
“Director, Physics Innovations Centre for Excellence in Teaching, University of Leicester. For services to Science Education.”
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Member of the Order of the British Empire (MBE)
Director, Physics Innovations Centre for Excellence in Teaching, University of Leicester. For services to Science Education.
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“Director, Physics Innovations Centre for Excellence in Teaching, University of Leicester. For services to Science Education.”
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Professor Derek Jeffrey Raine
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“Director, Physics Innovations Centre for Excellence in Teaching, University of Leicester. For services to Science Education.”
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The Member of the Order of the British Empire was awarded 587 times in the New Year Honours List 2012 — about 61% of the list.
In their area
224 Member of the Order of the British Empire recipients are from Leicestershire.
How widely is this recognised?
4,959 people have been recognised for Education.
Counts reflect the 2008–2026 honours lists in our records; earlier years are not yet included.
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Member of the Order of the British Empire · 2012
Cabinet Office / gov.uk published honours list (New Year Honours List 2012). No individual Gazette notice has been matched to this record yet.
Published 30 December 2011.
Location (Leicestershire) comes from the Cabinet Office / gov.uk published honours list, not the Gazette notice, which records no recipient home location.
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