Space Sciences in the world in the past 10 years. 2002 Ranked 5th most cited physical scientist in UK since 1980 2000–2001 Leverhulme Research Fellowship 2000 Ranked 16th most cited physical scientist in the UK during the 1990s 1996–1999 PPARC Senior Fellowship 1992–1993 Sir Derman Christopherson Fellowship, University of Durham 1991–1992 Nuffield Foundation Science Research Fellowship 1985 SERC Advanced Fellowship (declined) 1976–1979 British Council Fellowship 1976 Gabino Barreda medal for first place in Theor. Phys. degree Frenk was appointed Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE) in the 2017 Birthday Honours for services to cosmology and the public dissemination of basic science. He was interviewed by Kirsty Young for Desert Island Discs, first broadcast in 2018. References Citations Sources External links 1951 births Living people 20th-century Mexican physicists 21st-century British physicists British cosmologists Academics of Durham University Alumni of King's College, Cambridge Fellows of the Royal Society National Autonomous University of Mexico alumni Recipients of the Gold Medal of the Royal Astronomical Society Scientists from Mexico City Commanders of the Order of the British Empire