New Year Honours List celebrates Hertford alumnus

7 January 2026

Hertford alumnus Professor Gideon Henderson has received a CBE in the King’s New Year Honours List for services to science.

Gideon Henderson CBE FRS is an environmental scientist and science adviser. His research focuses on low-temperature geochemistry, the carbon cycle, the oceans, and climate change. He is Professor of Earth Sciences at the University of Oxford and from 2019 to 2025 served as Chief Scientific Adviser and Director General for Science and Analysis at the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs.

Our warmest congratulations to Gideon on this well-deserved recognition.

 

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