Editing Alec Jeffreys (section)

===Awards and honours===
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* 1986 – Elected a [[Fellow of the Royal Society]] (FRS)<ref name=frs>{{cite web|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150316060617/https://royalsociety.org/about-us/fellowship/fellows/|archive-date=2015-03-16|url=https://royalsociety.org/about-us/fellowship/fellows/|publisher=[[Royal Society]]|location=London|title=Fellows of the Royal Society}}</ref><ref>{{cite web
|url = http://www.royalsociety.org/downloaddoc.asp?id=4274
|publisher =The Royal Society
|title = List of Fellows of the Royal Society: 1660–2007: A – J
|access-date =9 October 2007
| archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20071212012200/http://royalsociety.org/downloaddoc.asp?id=4274| archive-date = 12 December 2007}}</ref>
* 1989 – Press, Radio and TV awards for the [[Midlander of the Year]], 1988, 1989<ref name=Sleeman/>
* 1991 – Appointed as a [[Royal Society|Royal Society Research Professor]].<ref name="FRS prof AJ">{{cite web|url=http://royalsociety.org/page.asp?id=1523 |title=Sir Alec Jeffreys FRS – DNA fingerprinting |publisher=The Royal Society |access-date=15 December 2007 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080609102605/http://royalsociety.org/page.asp?id=1523 |archive-date=9 June 2008 |url-status=live}}</ref>
* 26 November 1992 – Honorary [[Freedom of the city|freeman]] of the [[Leicester|City of Leicester]].<ref name = "freeman Leicester"/>
* 1994 – [[Knight Bachelor|Knighted]] for services to genetics<ref name=Evidence>{{cite book|last1=Evans|first1=Colin|title=Evidence|date=2010|publisher=Chelsea House|location=New York|isbn=978-1-60413-615-9|page=77|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=u5gMnMlGtC8C&pg=PA77}}</ref><ref name=HKC2013>{{cite web|title=188th Congregation (2013)|url=http://www4.hku.hk/hongrads/index.php/archive/graduate_detail/317|website=University of Hong Kong|access-date=3 April 2015|archive-date=18 April 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150418085509/http://www4.hku.hk/hongrads/index.php/archive/graduate_detail/317|url-status=dead}}</ref> and to science and technology.<ref name=Newton>{{cite book|last1=Newton|first1=David E.|title=DNA evidence and forensic science|date=2008|publisher=Facts on File|location=New York|isbn=978-0-8160-7088-6|pages=[https://archive.org/details/dnaevidenceforen0000newt/page/100 100]–101|url=https://archive.org/details/dnaevidenceforen0000newt|url-access=registration|access-date=3 April 2015}}</ref>
* 1995 – Honorary member of the [[International Society for Forensic Genetics]]<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.isfg.org/About/Honorary+Members |title=ISFG - About/Honorary Members |website=www.isfg.org |access-date=8 September 2019}}</ref>
* 1996 – [[Albert Einstein World Award of Science]].<ref name="Albert Einstein World Award of Science"/>
* 1998 – [[Australia Prize]], 1998.<ref name=AUSGov>{{cite web|title=1998 Australia Prize PROFESSOR SIR ALEC JEFFREYS (UK) |url=https://grants.innovation.gov.au/SciencePrize/Pages/Doc.aspx?name=previous_winners/Aust1998Jeffreys.htm |website=Australian Government Department of Industry |access-date=3 April 2015 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150118041828/https://grants.innovation.gov.au/SciencePrize/Pages/Doc.aspx?name=previous_winners%2FAust1998Jeffreys.htm |archive-date=18 January 2015}}</ref>
* 1999 – [[Stokes Medal|Sir George Stokes Medal]]<ref name=Sleeman>{{cite book|last1=Sleeman|first1=Elizabeth|title=The international who's who 2004.|date=2003|publisher=Europa|location=London|isbn=978-1-85743-217-6|page=813|edition=67th|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=neKm1X6YPY0C&pg=PA813}}</ref>
* 2003 – [[Association for Molecular Pathology]] Award for Excellence in Molecular Diagnostics <ref>{{cite web |url =https://www.amp.org/membership/awards-grants-honors/amp-award-for-excellence-in-molecular-diagnostics/past-recipients/
|title = Association for Molecular Pathology Past Award Recipients
|access-date =3 March 2023}}</ref>
* 2004 – [[Honorary degree|Honorary doctorate]] awarded by the University of Leicester, where Jeffreys is a member of staff.<ref name="Response by Professor Sir Alec Jeffreys"/>
* 2004 – [[Royal Medal]] of the [[Royal Society]].<ref name="Royal recent winners"/>
* 2004 – [[Pride of Britain Award]] for Lifetime Achievement.<ref>[https://archive.today/20120906151946/http://www.prideofbritain.com/contentpages/winners/2004/sir-alec-jeffreys.aspx The Pride of Britain Awards – Lifetime Achievement, Sir Alec Jeffreys] Retrieved 14 October 2011</ref>
* 2004 – [[Louis-Jeantet Prize for Medicine]].<ref name="The winners of the Louis-Jeantet Prize for medicine"/>
* 2005 – [[Albert Lasker Award for Clinical Medical Research]],<ref name = "Lasker acceptance remarks">{{cite web
|url = http://www.laskerfoundation.org/awards/library/2005_jeffreys.shtml
|title = 2005 Albert Lasker Award – Acceptance remarks by Alec Jeffreys
|access-date =19 December 2007 |publisher = Lasker Foundation
| archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20071215162525/http://www.laskerfoundation.org/awards/library/2005_jeffreys.shtml| archive-date = 15 December 2007}}</ref> jointly with [[Edwin Southern]] of the University of Oxford.<ref name = "Lasker 2005">{{cite web
|url = http://www.laskerfoundation.org/awards/library/2005clinical.shtml
|title = 2005 Albert Lasker Award for Clinical Medical Research
|access-date =19 December 2007 |publisher = Lasker Foundation
|archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20071211191805/http://www.laskerfoundation.org/awards/library/2005clinical.shtml |archive-date = 11 December 2007}}</ref>
* 2005 – [[United States National Academy of Sciences]],<ref name = "NAS Member">{{cite web
|url = http://www.nasonline.org/site/Dir/12573455?pg=vprof&mbr=1006666&returl=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.nasonline.org%2Fsite%2FDir%2F12573455%3Fpg%3Dsrch%26view%3Dbasic&retmk=search_again_link
|title = Alec Jeffreys NAS biography
|access-date = 9 February 2009
|publisher = NAS website
|archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20090414111602/http://www.nasonline.org/site/Dir/12573455?pg=vprof&mbr=1006666&returl=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.nasonline.org%2Fsite%2FDir%2F12573455%3Fpg%3Dsrch%26view%3Dbasic&retmk=search_again_link
|archive-date = 14 April 2009
|url-status = dead
}}</ref> elected member.
* 2006 – Great Briton Award for the Greatest Briton of the year, winner in the category of Science and Innovation, as well as the overall winner.<ref name=Briton>{{cite news|title=University of Leicester Professor Voted 'Great Briton of 2006'|url=http://www.le.ac.uk/ebulletin-archive/ebulletin/news/press-releases/2000-2009/2007/01/nparticle.2007-01-19.html|access-date=3 April 2015|work=University of Leicester News|date=19 January 2007}}</ref>
* 2006 – [[Dr A.H. Heineken Prize]] for Biochemistry and Biophysics.<ref name="Laureates: Alec J. Jeffreys"/>
* 8 March 2007 – Honorary degree from [[King's College London]].<ref name="King's first Honorary Degree Ceremony"/>
* 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.<ref name="Lecture Abstract: Prof Sir Alec Jeffreys 'DNA Fingerprinting and beyond'"/>
* 16 November 2009 – Awarded [[Honorary degree|Honorary]] Doctor of Science by the [[University of Huddersfield]]<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.hud.ac.uk/awards/honorary_awards.html |title=The University of Huddersfield's 2009 Honorary Award recipients |publisher=University of Huddersfield |date=9 December 2009 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100710135432/http://www.hud.ac.uk/awards/honorary_awards.html |archive-date=10 July 2010 |url-status=dead}}</ref>
* 14 April 2010 – Awarded [[Edinburgh]] Medal<ref name="Edinburgh Medal"/>
* April 2010 – Officially opened the new [[Soar Valley College]] building in [[Leicester]].<ref name=Soar>{{cite news|title=DNA mastermind Sir Alec Jeffreys officially opens Leicester specialist college|work=Leicester Mercury|date=22 April 2010|url=http://www.leicestermercury.co.uk/DNA-mastermind-officially-opens-specialist-college/story-12056006-detail/story.html|access-date=3 April 2015|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150408201522/http://www.leicestermercury.co.uk/DNA-mastermind-officially-opens-specialist-college/story-12056006-detail/story.html|archive-date=8 April 2015}}</ref>
* 21 February 2011 – Awarded [[ABRF]] Annual Award<ref>{{cite web|url=http://conf.abrf.org/index.cfm/page/awards/ABRF_Award.htm |title=ABRF Annual Award for Outstanding Contributions to Biomolecular Technologies |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110122150951/http://conf.abrf.org/index.cfm/page/awards/ABRF_Award.htm |archive-date=22 January 2011 }}</ref>
* 2012 – Officially opened the Sir Alec Jeffreys Building in [[Wakefield|Wakefield, West Yorkshire]], the scientific support building for [[West Yorkshire Police]] and the wider [[Yorkshire and the Humber|Yorkshire and the Humber region]].<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www2.le.ac.uk/offices/press/press-releases/2012/may/the-father-of-dna-fingerprinting-opens-the-new-scientific-support-building-in-wakefield|title=The 'Father' of DNA fingerprinting opens the new Scientific Support Building in Wakefield|date=3 May 2012|access-date=18 June 2020|archive-date=21 June 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200621154921/https://www2.le.ac.uk/offices/press/press-releases/2012/may/the-father-of-dna-fingerprinting-opens-the-new-scientific-support-building-in-wakefield|url-status=dead}}</ref>
* 2014 – [[Copley Medal]]<ref name="AJ2014"/>
* 22 January 2014 – Honorary Doctor of Science Degree from [[De Montfort University]].<ref>{{Cite web | url=https://www2.le.ac.uk/staff/community/people/staffupdates/2014/january/sir-alec-jeffreys-to-receive-honorary-degree-from-de-montfort-university | title=Sir Alec Jeffreys to receive honorary degree from de Montfort University – University of Leicester | access-date=7 June 2018 | archive-date=12 June 2018 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180612140525/https://www2.le.ac.uk/staff/community/people/staffupdates/2014/january/sir-alec-jeffreys-to-receive-honorary-degree-from-de-montfort-university | url-status=dead }}</ref>
*2017 – [[Member of the Order of the Companions of Honour]]<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/580999/new-years-honours-2017-full-list.pdf |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161231075327/https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/580999/new-years-honours-2017-full-list.pdf |archive-date=2016-12-31 |url-status=live |title=The New Year's Honours List 2017|date=31 December 2016}}</ref>
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