Ellesmere in the County of Shropshire on 14 July 1994. In the House of Lords, he chaired the select committee on Science and Technology and he is credited with getting Parliament onto the World Wide Web. In 1994, he was awarded an Honorary Degree (Doctor of Science) by the University of Bath. In 1980 he was invited to deliver a series of Royal Institution Christmas Lecture on The Chicken, the Egg and the Molecules. Personal life In 1960 Phillips married Diana Hutchinson. Phillips died of cancer, on 23 February 1999. References 1924 births 1999 deaths 20th-century British biologists Structural biologists Deaths from prostate cancer Fellows of the Royal Society Foreign associates of the National Academy of Sciences Fullerian Professors of Physiology Knights Commander of the Order of the British Empire Crossbench life peers Scientists from Shropshire People from Ellesmere, Shropshire Royal Medal winners Wolf Prize in Chemistry laureates Knights Bachelor Presidents of the British Crystallographic Association Members of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences