{"id":1330,"date":"2020-10-21T11:29:57","date_gmt":"2020-10-21T10:29:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blcs.eng.cam.ac.uk\/?p=1330"},"modified":"2026-01-23T11:54:30","modified_gmt":"2026-01-23T11:54:30","slug":"professor-roy-sambles-awarded-knighthood-in-queens-birthday-honours","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.blcs.org.uk\/?p=1330","title":{"rendered":"Professor Roy Sambles awarded knighthood in Queen\u2019s Birthday Honours"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class='content-column two_fifth'><div id=\"attachment_1329\" style=\"width: 175px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1329\" class=\" wp-image-1329\" src=\"https:\/\/www.blcs.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/Sambles.jpg\" alt=\"Prof Roy Sambles\" width=\"165\" height=\"180\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-1329\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Prof Roy Sambles<\/p><\/div><\/div><div class='content-column three_fifth last_column'>We were delighted to learn that Professor Roy Sambles FRS, former Chair of BLCS during 2000-2004 period, and winner of the George Gray Medal in 1998, has received a knighthood in the October 2020 Birthday Honours List for his services to Scientific Research and Outreach.\u00a0 Roy and his many scientific achievements are of course very well known throughout the BLCS community.\u00a0 Many congratulations, Sir Roy!<\/div><div class='clear_column'><\/div><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1330","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blcs.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1330","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blcs.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blcs.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blcs.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blcs.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1330"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.blcs.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1330\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1806,"href":"https:\/\/www.blcs.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1330\/revisions\/1806"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blcs.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1330"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blcs.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1330"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blcs.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1330"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}