Birthday Honours 2012
Professor Janet Maureen THORNTON DBE
Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire (DBE)
bioinformatician
Organisation: European Bioinformatics Institute
“Director, European Bioinformatics Institute. For services to Bioinformatics.”
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Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire (DBE)
Director, European Bioinformatics Institute. For services to Bioinformatics.
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Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire
Birthday Honours 2012- Role at the time
- bioinformatician
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- Hertfordshire
“Director, European Bioinformatics Institute. For services to Bioinformatics.”
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“Director, European Bioinformatics Institute. For services to Bioinformatics.”
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“Director, European Bioinformatics Institute. For services to Bioinformatics.”
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The Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire was awarded 8 times in the Birthday Honours List 2012 — about 1% of the list.
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11 Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire recipients are from Hertfordshire.
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bioinformatician, European Bioinformatics Institute.
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Honoured alongside them
Others awarded the Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire in the Birthday Honours 2012
Dr Mary Doreen Archer
PersonDame Commander Order Of The British Empire · 2012
Cambridgeshire
“Chair, Cambridge University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust. For services to the NHS.”
Lucy Jeanne Neville-Rolfe
PersonDame Commander Order Of The British Empire · 2012
London
“Deputy Chair, British Retail Consortium and Executive Director, Corporate and Legal Affairs, Tesco plc. For services to Industry and voluntary service.”
Professor Julia Elizabeth King
PersonDame Commander Order Of The British Empire · 2012
Cambridgeshire
“Vice-Chancellor, Aston University. For services to Higher Education and Technology.”
Professor Tina Lavender
PersonDame Commander Order Of The British Empire · 2012
Merseyside
“Professor of Midwifery, School of Nursing, Midwifery and Social Work, University of Manchester. For services to Midwifery.”
Rt Hon Tessa Jane Jowell
PersonDame Commander Order Of The British Empire · 2012
London
“For political and charitable services.”
Theresa Sackler
PersonDame Commander Order Of The British Empire · 2012
London
“Philanthropist. For services to the Arts.”
Zaha Hadid
PersonDame Commander Order Of The British Empire · 2012
London
“For services to Architecture.”
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Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire · 2012
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Published 14 June 2012.
Location (Hertfordshire) comes from the Cabinet Office / gov.uk published honours list, not the Gazette notice, which records no recipient home location.
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