met his wife, Judith Clare Williams, at a lunch held by his aunt, wife of an astronomy professor. After they were engaged, their relationship did not go well and Judith went to live in Canada; however, a year later she returned to England and they married. In 1978, they moved from London to Cambridge with their young children, where they lived for more than 20 years before moving to Cardiff. They have one daughter and two sons. Their older son was a student at the University of Cambridge and their younger son was a boarder at Christ Church Cathedral School in Oxford and sang in Christ Church Cathedral choir. Martin's granddaughter is a third-year medical student at the University of Nottingham. His wife Judith Clare Williams, granddaughter of Christopher Williams, was appointed MBE for her services to practice nursing in the 1993 New Year Honours. She was diagnosed with breast cancer at about the time the family moved to Cardiff. She works for breast cancer charities, and Martin Evans has become a trustee of Breakthrough Breast Cancer. Awards and honours Evans has won numerous awards including: 1990 - Elected an EMBO Member 1993 - Elected a Fellow of the Royal Society (FRS) 1998 - Founder Fellow of the Academy of Medical Sciences. 1999 - The USA charity March of Dimes awarded their annual prize in Developmental Biology for research into embryonic growth jointly to Professor Richard Gardner at the University of Oxford and Evans. 2001 - Albert Lasker Award for Basic Medical Research, jointly with Mario Capecchi and Oliver Smithies. 2002 - Honorary doctorate from Mount Sinai School of Medicine, New York, USA. 2004 - Appointed Knight Bachelor in the 2004 New Year Honours "for services to medical science". 2005 - Honorary doctorate from the University of Bath, England. 2007 - Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, jointly with Mario Capecchi and Oliver Smithies. 2008 - Honorary doctorate from University College London, England. 2009 - Gold Medal of the Royal Society of Medicine 2009 - Copley Medal of the Royal Society 2009 - Member of the Advisory Board of the Faraday Institute 2009 - UCL Prize Lecture in Clinical Science References External links 1941 births Living people People from Stroud People educated at St Dunstan's College Fellows of the Royal Society Fellows of the Academy of Medical Sciences (United Kingdom) British geneticists Knights Bachelor Alumni of Christ's College, Cambridge Alumni