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Professor Jim Hough, Professor of Natural Philosophy at the University of Glasgow, was presented with an OBE (Officer of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire) in honour of his services to science at a ceremony at Buckingham Palace on Friday 7 February.

Professor Hough was named among the Queen’s New Year’s Honours however was unable to accept his award at the time.

Prof Martin A. Hendry, Head of Physics and Astronomy at the University of Glasgow said “I am delighted to congratulate Jim on his award of an OBE, which is thoroughly deserved recognition of his decades of service to the scientific community.”

Winner of a Max-Planck research prize in 1991 he was elected to the Royal Society of Edinburgh in 1991 and to the Royal Society of London in 2003, was awarded the Duddell Prize of the Institute of Physics in 2004 and the Gunning Victoria Prize lectureship of the Royal Society of Edinburgh in 2008. He was elected to Fellowship of the Institute of Physics in 1993 and of the American Physical Society in 2001, and was awarded Fellowship of the International Society for General Relativity and Gravitation in 2010, and Fellowship of the Royal Society of Arts in 2012.

Currently Jim is a member of the Scottish Science Advisory Council, the Advisory Committee to the Glasgow Science Centre, the Council of the Institute of Physics in the UK and the Executive Committee and Council of the European Physical Society. He chairs the Education Committee for the Institute of Physics in Scotland.

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First published: 12 February 2014