Alec Jeffreys - Awards and Recognition

Awards and Recognition

• 20 March 1986 – Fellow of the Royal Society.
• 1989 – Midlander of the Year.
• 1991 – Appointed as a Royal Society Research Professor.
• 26 November 1992 – Honorary freeman of the City of Leicester.
• 1994 – Knighted.
• 1996 – Albert Einstein World Award of Science.
• 1998 – Australia Prize.
• 1999 – Stokes Medal
• 2004 – Honorary doctorate awarded by the University of Leicester, where Jeffreys is a member of staff.
• 2004 – Royal Medal of the Royal Society.
• 2004 – Pride of Britain Award for Lifetime Achievement.
• 2004 – Louis-Jeantet Prize for Medicine.
• 2005 – Albert Lasker Award for Clinical Medical Research, jointly with Edwin Southern of the University of Oxford.
• 2005 – United States National Academy of Science, elected member.
• December 2006 – Degree of Doctor of Science (Honoris Causa) by the University of Liverpool.
• 2006 – Morgan Stanley Great Briton Award for the Greatest Briton of the year, winner in the category of Science and Innovation, as well as the overall winner.
• 2006 – Dr A.H. Heineken Prize for Biochemistry and Biophysics.
• 8 March 2007 – Honorary degree from King's College London.
• 23 January 2008 – Graham Medal of the Glasgow Philosophical Society, awarded after he gave his lecture "DNA Profiling; Past, present and future", which was nominated as the Graham Lecture.
• 16 November 2009 – Awarded Honorary Doctor of Science by the University of Huddersfield
• 14 April 2010 – Awarded Edinburgh Medal
• 21 February 2011 – Awarded ABRF Annual Award