Honorary Graduates 1988

Professor Sir George Porter - 1988
Sir George Porter was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1966 and the same year became Director and Fullerian Professor of Chemistry at the Royal Institution. He was awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1967. He was knighted in 1972 ... read full details

Sir Andrew F Huxley - 1988
Sir Andrew Fielding Huxley was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1955 and served as President from 1980 to 1985. He shared the Nobel Prize for Medicine in 1963. He was knighted in 1974 and received the Order of Merit in 1983. July 1988... read full details

Sir Randoph Quirk - 1988
Sir Randolph Quirk was a major contributer to the Survey of English Usage in the 1960s on which he based his textbook A Comprehensive Grammar of the English Language. He was elected president of the British Academy in 1985. He was ... read full details