1992 and 1993. For the Royal Postgraduate Medical School, he was member of the council and vice-chairman from 1990 to 1997. Between 1991 and 1995, Flowers was member of the Management Board of the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, and between 1994 and 1995, its chairman. For the Nuffield Foundation he was managing trustee from 1982 to 1998 and chairman from 1987 to 1998. During his chairmanship of the Nuffield Foundation, he played a significant role in the establishment by the Foundation of the Nuffield Council on Bioethics in 1991. From 1998, he was vice-chairman of the Parliamentary Office of Science and Technology (POST). He was also a Founding Fellow of the Learned Society of Wales. Honours and awards 1961: Elected a Fellow of the Royal Society 1968: Institute of Physics Ernest Rutherford Medal and Prize 1969: Knighted 1979: Made a life peer with the title Baron Flowers, of Queen's Gate in the City of Westminster on 20 February 1979. 1981: Made an Officer of the French Légion d'honneur. 1984: Imperial College commissioned his portrait from the painter, Kyffin Williams. 1987: Awarded the Glazebrook Medal by the Institute of Physics. Personal life From 1951 until his death he was married to Mary Frances Behrens, and had two stepsons, Peter and Michael. Lady Flowers died in January 2016 at the age of 94. Selected works 1970: Properties of Matter. Chichester: Wiley (with Eric Mendoza) 1995: An Introduction to Numerical Methods in C++, Oxford: Clarendon Press See also List of Vice-Chancellors of the University of London References Sources 1924 births 2010 deaths British physicists People from Swansea People educated at Bishop Gore School Academics of Imperial College London Academics of the University of Birmingham Academics of the Victoria University of Manchester Alumni of Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge Alumni of the University of Birmingham Crossbench life peers Fellows of the Institute of Physics Fellows of the Royal Society Knights Bachelor Members of Academia Europaea Officiers of the Légion d'honneur People associated with Middlesex University People associated with the Victoria University of Manchester People associated with the University of London Rectors of Imperial College London Presidents of the Institute of Physics Vice-Chancellors of the University of London Life peers created by Elizabeth II