Birthday Honours 2012
Professor Jonathan Richard ELLIS CBE
Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE)
“Clerk Maxwell Professor of Theoretical Physics, King's College London and Scientist, CERN. For services to Science and Technology.”
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Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE)
Clerk Maxwell Professor of Theoretical Physics, King's College London and Scientist, CERN. For services to Science and Technology.
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“Clerk Maxwell Professor of Theoretical Physics, King's College London and Scientist, CERN. For services to Science and Technology.”
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Professor Jonathan Richard Ellis
Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE)
“Clerk Maxwell Professor of Theoretical Physics, King's College London and Scientist, CERN. For services to Science and Technology.”
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“Clerk Maxwell Professor of Theoretical Physics, King's College London and Scientist, CERN. For services to Science and Technology.”
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Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE)
“Clerk Maxwell Professor of Theoretical Physics, King's College London and Scientist, CERN. For services to Science and Technology.”
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How common is this award?
The Commander of the Order of the British Empire was awarded 96 times in the Birthday Honours List 2012 — about 8% of the list.
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2 Commander of the Order of the British Empire recipients are from SWITZERLAND.
How widely is this recognised?
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Commander of the Order of the British Empire · 2012
Cabinet Office / gov.uk published honours list (Birthday Honours List 2012). No individual Gazette notice has been matched to this record yet.
Published 14 June 2012.
Location (SWITZERLAND) comes from the Cabinet Office / gov.uk published honours list, not the Gazette notice, which records no recipient home location.
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