NAMES IN THE NEWS : Honors for Surgeon, Chemist
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LONDON — Queen Elizabeth II named two new members to the coveted Order of Merit, Dame Cicely Saunders, 71, founder of the hospice movement in Britain, and Sir George Porter, 68, a Nobel chemistry prize winner in 1967.
Dame Cicely, a surgeon, won the U.S. Templeton Prize for Progress in Religion in 1981 for her work on the care of the dying. She has been chairman of St. Christopher’s Hospice in south London since 1985.
Porter won his Nobel prize in 1967 jointly with two other scientists for work in photochemistry involving extremely fast chemical reactions.
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