New Year Honours 2021
Wendy Bickmore CBE
Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE)
Director • MRC Human Genetics Unit
“For services to Biomedical Sciences and to Women in Science.”
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Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE)
For services to Biomedical Sciences and to Women in Science.
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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 Wendy Anne BICKMORE F.R.S. F.R.S.E.
Director, MRC Human Genetics Unit, University of Edinburgh
For services to Biomedical Sciences and to Women in Science.
Source: The London Gazette, issue 63218 · Crown copyright, Open Government Licence v3.0
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- Edinburgh, City of Edinburgh
“For services to Biomedical Sciences and to Women in Science.”
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Director, MRC Human Genetics Unit.
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Commander of the Order of the British Empire · 2021
London Gazette (official record), issue 63218, notice 3703340. View the official notice ↗
Cabinet Office / gov.uk published honours list (New Year Honours List 2021).
Published 30 December 2020.
Location (Edinburgh, City of Edinburgh) comes from the Cabinet Office / gov.uk published honours list, not the Gazette notice, which records no recipient home location.
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