New Year Honours 2021
Professor Sheila ROWAN CBE
- Member of the Order of the British Empire (MBE)
- Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE)
Director, Institute for Gravitational Research and Chief Scientific Adviser for Scotland
Organisation: Institute for Gravitational Research
“Director, Institute for Gravitational Research and Chief Scientific Adviser for Scotland. For services to Science”
Timeline
Member of the Order of the British Empire (MBE)
Director, Institute for Gravitational Research. For services to Science.
View London Gazette noticeCommander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE)
Director, Institute for Gravitational Research and Chief Scientific Adviser for Scotland. For services to Science
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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
31 December 2020
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 Sheila ROWAN M.B.E. F.R.S. F.R.S.E.
Director, Institute for Gravitational Research and Chief Scientific Adviser for Scotland
For services to Science.
Source: The London Gazette, issue 63218 · Crown copyright, Open Government Licence v3.0
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Each honour in context
Role, region and citation as recorded for each award.
Member of the Order of the British Empire
Birthday Honours 2011- Role at the time
- Director, Institute for Gravitational Research and Chief Scientific Adviser for Scotland
- Region
- Bearsden, Glasgow
“Director, Institute for Gravitational Research. For services to Science.”
Commander of the Order of the British Empire
New Year Honours 2021- Role at the time
- Director, Institute for Gravitational Research and Chief Scientific Adviser for Scotland
- Region
- Bearsden, Dunbartonshire
“Director, Institute for Gravitational Research and Chief Scientific Adviser for Scotland. For services to Science”
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In their area
7 Commander of the Order of the British Empire recipients are from Dunbartonshire.
What organisation were they with?
Director, Institute for Gravitational Research and Chief Scientific Adviser for Scotland, Institute for Gravitational Research.
How widely is this recognised?
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Source & provenance
Where this record comes from
Member of the Order of the British Empire · 2011
Cabinet Office / gov.uk published honours list (Birthday Honours List 2011). No individual Gazette notice has been matched to this record yet.
Published 14 June 2011.
Commander of the Order of the British Empire · 2021
London Gazette (official record), issue 63218, notice 3703394. View the official notice ↗
Cabinet Office / gov.uk published honours list (New Year Honours List 2021).
Published 30 December 2020.
Location (Bearsden, Glasgow) comes from the Cabinet Office / gov.uk published honours list, not the Gazette notice, which records no recipient home location.
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