of the Legion of Honour in 2001. In 1993 he received the music award Apollo by Friends of the Athens National Opera Society. In 1995, Vangelis had a minor planet named after him (6354 Vangelis) by the International Astronomical Union's Minor Planet Center (MPC) at the Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory; the name was proposed by the MPC's co-director, Gareth V. Williams, rather than by the object's original discoverer, Eugène Joseph Delporte, who died in 1955, long before the 1934 discovery could be confirmed by observations made in 1990. In 1996 and 1997, Vangelis received awards at the World Music Awards. NASA conferred their Public Service Medal to Vangelis in 2003. The award is the highest honour the space agency presents to an individual not involved with the American government. Five years later, in 2008, the board of the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens voted to award Vangelis an honorary doctoral degree, making him a professor emeritus at their Faculty of Primary Education. In June 2008, the American Hellenic Institute honoured Vangelis with an AHI Hellenic Heritage Achievement Award for his "exceptional artistic achievements" as a pioneer in electronic music and for his lifelong dedication to the promotion of Hellenism through the arts. On 16 September 2013, he received the honour of appearing on the Greek 80 cent postage stamp, as part of a series of six distinguished living personalities of the Greek Diaspora. In May 2018 the University of Thessaly in Vangelis's hometown of Volos awarded him an honorary doctorate degree in electrical and computer engineering. The American Film Institute nominated Vangelis's scores for Blade Runner and Chariots of Fire for their list of the 25 greatest film scores. Discography Sources: Soundtracks L'Apocalypse des animaux Ignacio (aka Do You hear the Dogs Barking?) La Fête sauvage Opéra sauvage Chariots of Fire Blade Runner Antarctica 1492: Conquest of Paradise Bitter Moon Alexander Blade Runner Trilogy: 25th Anniversary El Greco: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack Chariots of Fire – The Play: Music from the Stage Show Studio albums Fais que ton rêve soit plus long que la nuit (1972) Earth (1973) Heaven and Hell (1975) Albedo 0.39 (1976) Spiral (1977) Beaubourg (1978) Hypothesis (1978; unofficial) The Dragon (1978; unofficial) China (1979) See You Later (1980) Soil Festivities (1984) Mask (1985) Invisible Connections (1985) Direct (1988) The City (1990) Foros Timis Ston Greco (1995) Voices (1995) Oceanic (1996) El Greco (1998) Mythodea – Music