Cooper Hewitt,Smithsonian Design Museum is a design museum housed within the Andrew Carnegie Mansion in Manhattan,New York City,along the Upper East Side's Museum Mile. It is one of 19 museums that operate within the Smithsonian Institution and is one of three Smithsonian facilities located in New York City,the other two being the National Museum of the American Indian's George Gustav Heye Center in Bowling Green and the Archives of American Art New York Research Center in the Flatiron District. Unlike other Smithsonian museums,Cooper Hewitt is not free to the public and charges an admissions fee to visitors. It is the only museum in the United States devoted to historical and contemporary design. Its collections and exhibitions explore approximately 240 years of design aesthetic and creativity.
William Grant Moggridge,RDI was an English designer,author and educator who cofounded the design company IDEO and was director of Cooper Hewitt,Smithsonian Design Museum in New York. He was a pioneer in adopting a human-centred approach in design,and championed interaction design as a mainstream design discipline. Among his achievements,he designed the first laptop computer,the GRiD Compass,was honoured for Lifetime Achievement from the National Design Awards,and given the Prince Philip Designers Prize. He was quoted as saying,"If there is a simple,easy principle that binds everything I have done together,it is my interest in people and their relationship to things."
Sir Roy Malcolm Anderson is a leading international authority on the epidemiology and control of infectious diseases. He is the author,with Robert May,of the most highly cited book in this field,entitled Infectious Diseases of Humans:Dynamics and Control. His early work was on the population ecology of infectious agents before focusing on the epidemiology and control of human infections. His published research includes studies of the major viral,bacterial and parasitic infections of humans,wildlife and livestock. This has included major studies on HIV,SARS,foot and mouth disease,bovine tuberculosis,bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE),influenza A,antibiotic resistant bacteria,the neglected tropical diseases and most recently COVID-19. Anderson is the author of over 650 peer-reviewed scientific articles with an h-index of 125.
Sir Rex Edward Richards was a British scientist and academic. He served as Vice-Chancellor of the University of Oxford and as a director of the Leverhulme Trust.
Peter Trippi is editor-in-chief of Fine Art Connoisseur,a bimonthly magazine for collectors of representational painting,sculpture,drawings and prints—both historical and contemporary. From 2003 until 2006,Trippi was director of New York City's Dahesh Museum of Art,the only institution in the United States devoted to 19th- and early 20th-century European academic art.
The New Year Honours 2007 were appointments by some of the 16 Commonwealth realms to various orders and honours to recognise and reward good works by citizens of those countries. The New Year Honours are awarded as part of the New Year celebrations at the start of January.
John William MillsPPRBS ARCA FRSA is an English sculptor.
The Birthday Honours 2007 for the Commonwealth realms were announced on 17 June 2007,to celebrate the Queen's Birthday of 2007.
Sir John Irving Bell is a Canadian-British immunologist and geneticist. From 2006 to 2011,he was President of the United Kingdom's Academy of Medical Sciences,and since 2002 he has held the Regius Chair of Medicine at the University of Oxford. He was since 2006 Chairman of the Office for Strategic Coordination of Health Research (OSCHR) but in 2020 became a normal member. Bell was selected to the Vaccine Taskforce sometime before 1 July 2020. Bell is also on the board of directors of the SOE quango Genomics England.
Michael McCoy is an American industrial designer and educator who has made significant contributions to American design and design education in the latter half of the 20th century. McCoy is best known as the co-chair of the graduate program in Design at Cranbrook Academy of Art where he and spouse Katherine McCoy pioneered semantic approaches to design.
The New Year Honours 2012 were announced on 31 December 2011 in the United Kingdom,New Zealand,Antigua and Barbuda,Grenada,Belize,Saint Christopher and Nevis,The Solomon Islands,Saint Vincent and the Grenadines,and The Cook Islands,to celebrate the year passed and mark the beginning of 2012.
Helen Storey,MBE,RDI,FRSA is a British artist and designer living and working in London. She is professor of fashion science at the University of the Arts,London and co-director of The Helen Storey Foundation.
The New Year Honours 2014 were appointments by some of the 16 Commonwealth realms to various orders and honours to recognise and reward good works by citizens of those countries. The New Year Honours are awarded as part of the New Year celebrations at the start of January.
The 2014 Birthday Honours were appointments by some of the 16 Commonwealth realms of Queen Elizabeth II to various orders and honours to reward and highlight good works by citizens of those countries. The Birthday Honours are awarded as part of the Queen's Official Birthday celebrations during the month of June. The Queen's Birthday Honours were announced on 14 June 2014 in the United Kingdom,on 9 June 2014 in Australia,on 2 June 2014 in New Zealand,on 14 June 2014 in Grenada,Papua New Guinea,Solomon Islands,Tuvalu,Saint Lucia and Belize.
Cynthia Schira is an American textile artist and former university professor. Her work is represented in the collections of many major public museums.
Paul Greenhalgh is a British historian,writer,museologist,and curator of art and design.
Philippa Jane Glanville,OBE,FSA,formerly chief curator of the metal,silver and jewellery department of the Victoria and Albert Museum,is an English art historian who is an authority on silver and the history of dining.
The 2019 New Year Honours are appointments by some of the 16 Commonwealth realms to various orders and honours to recognise and reward good works by citizens of those countries. The New Year Honours are awarded as part of the New Year celebrations at the start of January and were officially announced in The London Gazette at 22:30 on 28 December 2018. Australia,an independent Realm,has a separate honours system and its first honours of the year,the 2019 Australia Day Honours,coincide with Australia Day on 26 January.
