He has also written a number of screenplays, children’s fiction, and an oratorio. One of his most acclaimed novels, On Chesil Beach, won the British Book Awards Book of the Year and Author of the Year Awards in 2008. Many of his novels have been adapted for film including First Love, Last Rites (1997) The Cement Garden (1993) The Comfort of Strangers (1991), for which Harold Pinter wrote the screenplay Enduring Love (2004) and Atonement (2007). His novel Saturday won the James Tait Black Memorial Prize for 2005. His next novel, Atonement, also received considerable acclaim. In 1998 he was awarded the Booker Prize for his novel Amsterdam. His first published work was a collection of short stories, First Love, Last Rites (1975), which won the Somerset Maugham Award in 1976. During the Covid-19 pandemic he dedicated countless hours assisting the UK with strategies for developing and rolling out vaccines, understanding emerging immunology and developing national testing programmes. The development of the Oxford/Astra-Zeneca Vaccine would not have been possible without his vision to build vaccines research in Oxford over the last 30 years. He is broadly admired across the world as an energetic force operating across academia, philanthropists, industry and Whitehall, working with great dedication to communicate key scientific ideas, translate them to practical applications and identify key enablers to implementation. He has transformed the University’s research and innovation ecosystem enabling billions of pounds of investment in research programmes, equipment, major building projects, land purchases. He returned to Oxford in 1987 and became Regius Professor of Medicine in 2002. COMPANION OF HONOUR SIR JOHN IRVING BELL GBE FRS FREng
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