
New Year Honours 2012
Simon Kirwan Donaldson
Knight Bachelor
• Imperial College London
Organisation: Imperial College London
“For services to Mathematics.”
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Middlesex
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Knight Bachelor
New Year Honours 2012- Role at the time
- Imperial College London
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- Middlesex
“For services to Mathematics.”
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How common is this award?
The Knight Bachelor was awarded 25 times in the New Year Honours List 2012 — about 2% of the list.
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How widely is this recognised?
1,797 people have been recognised for Science, Engineering & Technology.
Counts reflect the 1937–2026 honours lists in our records; earlier years are not yet included.
Honoured alongside them
Others awarded the Knight Bachelor in the New Year Honours 2012
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Brian Mellor Greenwood
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“For services to malaria research in Africa.”
Charles Lamb Allen
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“For services to the 2012 Olympics and Paralympics.”
Christopher Maxwell Snowden
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Surrey
“For services to Engineering and to Higher Education.”
Clair Buchanan
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Surrey
“For services to Industry.”
David Edward Reid
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Essex
“For services to Business and to Charity.”
Geoffrey Hall
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“For services to Further Education.”
Geoffrey William Hill
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Cambridgeshire
“For services to Literature.”
George Iacobescu
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London
“For services to Charity, Community and the Financial Services Industry.”
Gerald Acher
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Surrey
“For charitable services.”
Herbert Douglas Ellis
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West Midlands
“For charitable services.”
John Alexander Armitt
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London
“For services to Engineering and Construction.”
John Gerald Patrick Sissons
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Cambridgeshire
“For services to Research and Education in Clinical Medicine.”
Konstantin Novoselov of Physics
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Greater Manchester
“For services to Science.”
Mark Brian Pepys
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London
“For services to Biomedicine.”
Michael David Bear
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London
“For services to Regeneration, Charity and the City of London.”
Paul Ruddock
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London
“For services to the Arts.”
Peter Lytton Bazalgette
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London
“For services to Broadcasting.”
Robert Russell
PersonKnight Bachelor · 2012
Essex
“For public service.”
Rodney Malcolm Aldridge
PersonKnight Bachelor · 2012
London
“For services to Young People.”
Roger James Gale
PersonKnight Bachelor · 2012
Kent
“For public and political services.”
Stephen Robert Bloom
PersonKnight Bachelor · 2012
London
“For services to Medical Science.”
Venkatraman Ramakrishnan
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Cambridgeshire
“For services to Molecular Biology.”
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Stephen Andrew Smith
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Matthew Wilson
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Ann Watson
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Ghulam Ng
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James Markey
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Jane Gate
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Maurice Geddis
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Dromore, County Down
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Mark Downs
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“For services to Biology.”
Jonathan Boddington
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Oswestry, Shropshire
“For services to Design and Innovation in Furniture Making.”
Olubukola Babajide
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“For services to Technology, to Business and to Inclusion.”
Geoffrey Underwood
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“For services to the Technology Industry.”
Sharon Todd
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“For services to Innovation.”
Ian Ritchey
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Newcastle upon Tyne, Tyne and Wear
“For services to Engineering.”
Brian Mcconnell
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Bristol, City of Bristol
“For services to Engineering.”
Rashmi Mantri
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Glasgow, City of Glasgow
“For services to Mathematics Education.”
Myrtle Dawes
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Aberdeen, City of Aberdeen
“For services to Energy and Technology.”
John Boumphrey
PersonOfficer Of The Order Of The British Empire · 2026
Abingdon, Oxfordshire
“For services to Technology, Consumer and Digital Commerce Industry.”
Timothy Orchard
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London, Greater London
“For services to the NHS and Healthcare Research and Innovation.”
Adikaari Adikaari
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Guildford, Surrey
“For services to Research and Innovation to Tackle Climate Change.”
Katherine Smith
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Stourbridge, West Midlands
“For services to Brain Tumour Research and to Charity.”
Mark Bamforth
PersonOfficer Of The Order Of The British Empire · 2026
“For services to UK Life Sciences and to UK/USA business relations.”
Benjamin Towers
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Gillingham, Kent
“For services to the Startup Business Community, Excellence in Innovation and Enterprise.”
Professor Rees
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Edinburgh, City of Edinburgh
“For services to Multi-Hazard Science and Disaster Risk Reduction.”
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Where this record comes from
Knight Bachelor · 2012
London Gazette (official record), published supplement. View the issue ↗
Cabinet Office / gov.uk published honours list (New Year Honours List 2012).
Published 31 December 2011.
Location (Middlesex) comes from the Cabinet Office / gov.uk published honours list, not the Gazette notice, which records no recipient home location.
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