in the issue dated 5 December 2020. Awards and honours Dixon received the Institute of Biology's Charter Award for services to biology; and the Biochemical Society Award (shared with Steven Rose) "for scientific communication in the public domain" in 2002. The University of Edinburgh awarded him an honorary DSc in 1996 "for contributions to public debate on scientific issues." He was made an Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE) in the 2000 Birthday Honours for services to science journalism. He gave the 2003 Erasmus Darwin Memorial Lecture, entitled "Why Modify Genes?" References External links 1938 births 2020 deaths Place of birth missing Officers of the Order of the British Empire Fellows of the Royal Society of Biology British science journalists