Queen’s Birthday Honours: two Sir Davids among HE knighthoods

By Jack Grove. The vice-chancellors of the universities of Nottingham and Birmingham have been knighted in the Queen’s Birthday Honours. As well as David Greenaway and David Eastwood, there are also knighthoods for neuroscientist Colin Blakemore, psychologist Cary Cooper, historian Thomas Devine, theoretical physicist Thomas Bannerman and “Professor Risk”, statistician David Spiegelhalter. More...