Editing Colin Pillinger (section)

===Awards and honours===
Chronology of qualifications, career, and awards:<ref name=CP-website-biography/>

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*{{Timeline-event|date=1965|event= BSc (Chemistry) from [[Swansea University|University College of Swansea]]}}
*{{Timeline-event|date=1968|event= PhD (Chemistry) from University College of Swansea}}
*{{Timeline-event|date=1968|event=[[Postdoctoral]] [[research fellow]], [[University of Bristol]] Department of Chemistry}}
*{{Timeline-event|date=1974|event= Research Associate, at the University of Cambridge}}
*{{Timeline-event|date=1976|event= Senior Research Associate, [[University of Cambridge Department of Earth Sciences|Department of Earth Sciences]], [[University of Cambridge]]}}
*{{Timeline-event|date=1981|event= [[Fellow]] of the [[Royal Astronomical Society]]}}
*{{Timeline-event|date=1981|event= Member of the [[British Mass Spectrometry Society]]}}
*{{Timeline-event|date=1984|event= Honorary DSc (Chemistry) from [[University of Bristol]]}}
*{{Timeline-event|date=1984|event= Senior Research Fellow, Department of Earth Science, Open University}}
*{{Timeline-event|date=1986|event= Fellow of the [[Meteoritical Society]]}}
*{{Timeline-event|date=1991|event= Appointed Professor of Planetary Sciences at the [[Open University]]}}
*{{Timeline-event|date=1993|event= Member of the [[International Astronomical Union]]}}
*{{Timeline-event|date=1993|event= Fellow of the [[Royal Geographical Society]]}}
*{{Timeline-event|date=1993|event= Elected a [[Fellow of the Royal Society]]}}
*{{Timeline-event|date=1996|event= Professor of Astronomy at [[Gresham College]] in the City of London (until 2000)}}
*{{Timeline-event|date=2000|event=[[Asteroid belt|Main belt]] asteroid [[15614 Pillinger]] named after Pillinger.<ref name=browse>{{cite web|url=http://ssd.jpl.nasa.gov/sbdb.cgi?sstr=15614+Pillinger|title=JPL Small-Body Database Browser on 15614 Pillinger|work=nasa.gov}}</ref>}}
*{{Timeline-event|date=2003|event= [[Aston Medal]] }}
*{{Timeline-event|date=2003|event= appointed a [[Order of the British Empire|CBE]]}}
*{{Timeline-event|date=2003|event= Winner [[Top Gear series 3]]'s Brain Box Burnout<ref>{{cite web | url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ygnacujuwms/ | title=Top Gear Season 3, Episode 7}}</ref>}}
*{{Timeline-event|date=2011|event= recipient of the [[Faraday Prize|Michael Faraday Prize]]}}<ref>{{cite web | url=http://royalsociety.org/awards/michael-faraday-prize/ | title= Royal Society&nbsp;– Michael Faraday Prize |access-date= 4 February 2012}}</ref>
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