Alec Jeffreys#
| Membership Number: | 219 |
| Membership type: | ORDINARY |
| Section: | CELL & DEVELOPMENTAL BIOLOGY |
| Elected: | 1989 |
| Main Country of Residence: | UNITED KINGDOM |
| Homepage(s): | http://www2.le.ac.uk/departments/genetics/jeffreys/biography |
Present and Previous Positions
- 1977- Professor of Genetics and Royal Society Wolfson Research Professor at the University of Leicester
- Research fellow at the University of Amsterdam
Fields of Scholarship
- Genetics
- Genetic fingerprinting
- DNA profiling
Honours and Awards
- Honours
- 1986 – Fellow of the Royal Society
- 1989 – Midlander of the Year
- 1991 – Appointed as a Royal Society Research Professor
- 1992 – Honorary freeman of the City of Leicester
- 1994 – Knighted
- 2004 – Honorary doctorate awarded by the University of Leicester
- 2005 – United States National Academy of Science, elected member
- 2006 – Degree of Doctor of Science (Honoris Causa) by the University of Liverpool
- 2007 – Honorary degree from King's College London
- 2009 – Awarded Honorary Doctor of Science by the University of Huddersfield
- Prizes
- 1996 – Albert Einstein World Award of Science
- 1998 – Australia Prize
- 1999 – Stokes Medal
- 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
- 2006 – Morgan Stanley Great Briton Award for the Greatest Briton of the year
- 2006 – Dr A.H. Heineken Prize for Biochemistry and Biophysics
- 2008 – Graham Medal of the Glasgow Philosophical Society
- 2010 – Awarded Edinburgh Medal
- 2011 – Awarded ABRF Annual Award
