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In 2012, a conference was held at Reading in honour of Nichols' 70th birthday. [2] Nichols was elected as a Fellow of the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics in 2014, "for contributions to the numerical analysis of systems, control, and data assimilation". [3]
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