Powell Prize for English Verse, Trinity College, 1961 Vidya Jyothi from the President of Sri Lanka, 1992 Honorary DLitt, Sōka University (Japan), 1996 Doctor of Science (honoris causa), University of Ruhuna, Sri Lanka, 2004 Visiting By-Fellowship, visiting scholar, Churchill College, Cambridge, England 2015/16 Ada Derana Sri Lankan of the Year 2017 - Global Scientist Wickramasinghe was appointed Member of the Order of the British Empire (MBE) in the 2022 New Year Honours for services to science, astronomy and astrobiology. Books Interstellar Grains (Chapman & Hall, London, 1967) Light Scattering Functions for Small Particles with Applications in Astronomy (Wiley, New York, 1973) Solid-State Astrophysics (ed. with D.J. Morgan) (D. Reidel, Boston, 1975) Interstellar Matter (with F.D. Khan & P.G. Mezger) (Swiss Society of Astronomy and Astrophysics, 1974) The Cosmic Laboratory (University College of Cardiff, 1975) Lifecloud: The Origin of Life in the Universe (with Fred Hoyle) (J.M. Dent, London, 1978) Diseases from Space (with Fred Hoyle) (J.M. Dent, London, 1979) Origin of Life (with Fred Hoyle) (University College Cardiff Press, 1979) Space Travellers: The Bringers of Life (with Fred Hoyle) (University College Cardiff Press, 1981) Evolution from Space (with Fred Hoyle) (J.M. Dent, London, 1981) Is Life an Astronomical Phenomenon? (University College Cardiff Press, 1982) Why Neo-Darwinism Does Not Work (with Fred Hoyle) (University College Cardiff Press, 1982) Proofs that Life is Cosmic (with Fred Hoyle) (Institute of Fundamental Studies, Sri Lanka, Memoirs no.1, 1982) From Grains to Bacteria (with Fred Hoyle) (University College Cardiff Press, 1984) Fundamental Studies and the Future of Science (ed.) (University College Cardiff Press, 1984) Living Comets (with Fred Hoyle) (University College Cardiff Press, 1985) Archaeopteryx, the Primordial Bird (with Fred Hoyle) (Christopher Davies, Swansea, 1986) The Theory of Cosmic Grains (with Fred Hoyle) (Kluwer, Dordrecht, 1991) Life on Mars? The Case for a Cosmic Heritage (with Fred Hoyle) (Clinical Press, Bristol, 1997) Astronomical Origins of Life: Steps towards Panspermia (with Fred Hoyle) (Kluwer, Dordrecht, 2000) Cosmic Dragons: Life and Death on Our Planet (Souvenir Press, London, 2001) Fred Hoyle’s Universe (ed. with G. Burbidge and J. Narlikar) (Kluwer, Dordrecht, 2003) A Journey with Fred Hoyle (World Scientific, Singapore, 2005) Comets and the Origin of Life (with J. Wickramasinghe and W. Napier) (World Scientific, Hackensack NJ, 2010) A Journey with Fred Hoyle, Second Edition (World Scientific, Singapore, April 2013) The search for our cosmic ancestry, World Scientific, New Jersey 2015, . Articles Hoyle, F. and Wickramasinghe,