HONOR

Awarded by the United Kingdom.

Name	Occupation	Birth	Death	Known for
Edgar Adrian	Scientist	30-Nov-1889	4-Aug-1977	Electricity within nerve cells
Lawrence Alma-Tadema	Painter	8-Jan-1836	25-Jun-1912	Classicist painter
Clement Attlee	Head of State	3-Jan-1883	8-Oct-1967	UK Prime Minister, 1945-51
James W. Black	Scientist	14-Jun-1924		Propranolol and cimetidine
Betty Boothroyd	Politician	8-Oct-1929		Speaker of the House of Commons, 1992-2000
Benjamin Britten	Composer	22-Nov-1913	4-Dec-1976	Billy Budd
Alan Brooke	Military	23-Jul-1883	17-Jun-1963	Chief military advisor to Churchill
Frank Macfarlane Burnet	Scientist	3-Sep-1899	31-Aug-1985	Acquired immunological tolerance
Henry Dale	Scientist	9-Jun-1875	23-Jul-1968	Acetylcholine as a neurotransmitter
Walter de la Mare	Poet	25-Apr-1873	22-Jun-1956	Memoirs of a Midget
Arthur Eddington	Astronomer	28-Dec-1882	22-Nov-1944	Eddington luminosity
Edward Elgar	Composer	2-Jun-1857	23-Feb-1934	Pomp and Circumstance
Howard Florey	Scientist	24-Sep-1898	21-Feb-1968	Discovered penicillin
Norman Foster	Architect	1-Jun-1935		Architect of the Milennium Bridge
Thomas Hardy	Novelist	2-Jun-1840	11-Jan-1928	Far from the Madding Crowd
Sir Cyril Hinshelwood	Chemist	19-Jun-1897	9-Oct-1967	The Kinetics of Chemical Change
Alan L. Hodgkin	Scientist	5-Feb-1914	20-Dec-1998	Electrical impulses in nerves
Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin	Chemist	12-May-1910	29-Jul-1994	Determined structure of Vitamin B12
Joseph Dalton Hooker	Botanist	30-Jun-1817	10-Dec-1911	Genera Plantarum
Frederick Hopkins	Scientist	20-Jun-1861	16-May-1947	Discovered vitamins
William Huggins	Astronomer	7-Feb-1824	12-May-1910	Spectrographic astronomy pioneer
William Holman Hunt	Painter	2-Apr-1827	7-Sep-1910	British Pre-Raphaelite painter
Robert H. Jackson	Judge	13-Feb-1892	9-Oct-1954	US Supreme Court Justice
Horatio Herbert Kitchener	Military	24-Jun-1850	5-Jun-1916	Field Marshal, Secretary of State for War
Joseph Lister	Doctor	5-Apr-1827	10-Feb-1912	Pioneer of antiseptic surgery
John Masefield	Poet	1-Jun-1878	12-May-1967	Poet Laureate of England, 1930-67
Peter Medawar	Zoologist	28-Feb-1915	2-Oct-1987	Acquired immunological tolerance
George Meredith	Novelist	12-Feb-1828	18-May-1909	The Egoist
Florence Nightingale	Activist	12-May-1820	13-Aug-1910	Established nursing as a profession
Max F. Perutz	Chemist	19-May-1914	6-Feb-2002	X-Ray analysis of hemoglobin
Martin Rees	Astronomer	23-Jun-1942		President of the Royal Society
Jacob Rothschild	Business	29-Apr-1936		RIT Capital Partners
Frederick Sanger	Chemist	13-Aug-1918		Determined sequencing of Insulin
Charles Sherrington	Doctor	27-Nov-1857	4-Mar-1952	Neurons and synapses
William Walton	Composer	29-Mar-1902	8-Mar-1983	Troilus and Cressida
Thomas J. Watson	Business	17-Feb-1874	19-Jun-1956	Founder of IBM
Alfred North Whitehead	Mathematician	15-Feb-1861	30-Dec-1947	Metaphysical mathematician
John G. Winant	Politician	23-Feb-1889	3-Nov-1947	New Hampshire governor, committed suicide

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