New Year Honours 2017
Professor Henrietta Miriam Ottoline LEYSER DBE
Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire (DBE)
“Director, The Sainsbury Laboratory, University of Cambridge. For services to Plant Science, Science in Society and Equality and Diversity in Science.”
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Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire (DBE)
Director, The Sainsbury Laboratory, University of Cambridge. For services to Plant Science, Science in Society and Equality and Diversity in Science.
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New Year Honours 2017
Professor Henrietta Miriam Ottoline Leyser
Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire (DBE)
“Director, The Sainsbury Laboratory, University of Cambridge. For services to Plant Science, Science in Society and Equality and Diversity in Science.”
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New Year Honours 2017
Professor Henrietta Miriam Ottoline Leyser
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“Director, The Sainsbury Laboratory, University of Cambridge. For services to Plant Science, Science in Society and Equality and Diversity in Science.”
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