Legion of Honour, officially National Order of the Legion of Honour, French Ordre National de la Légion d'honneur, premier order of the French republic, created by Napoleon Bonaparte, then first consul, on May 19 , 1802 as a general military and civil order of merit conferred without regard to birth or religion provided that anyone admitted swears to uphold liberty and equality.
She refused all honors (the Order of Merit was conferred when she was blind and no longer in a state to comprehend what was being done).
In 1947 Olivier was appointed a Knight Bachelor, and in 1970 he was given a life peerage; the Order of Merit was conferred on him in 1981.
The Order of Merit had been conferred a few weeks before his death.
The Order of Merit has been conferred upon Dr. A. Russel Wallace, F.R.S.; Prof. J. J. Thomson, F.R.S., has been knighted; and Dr. J. Hutchinson, F.R.S., has received a like honour.
Tonegawa received numerous awards throughout his career, including the Louisa Gross Horwitz Prize (1982), the Person of Cultural Merit prize (Bunka Korosha; 1983), conferred by the Japanese government, and the Order of Culture (Bunka Kunsho; 1984).
Among the many issues that merit future investigations, cross-protection conferred by KFDV and commercially available tick-borne encephalitis virus vaccines should be tested since slaughterhouse workers appear to rank high on the risk scale and therefore may be the first population to benefit from this information.
Traditionally, pilgrims walk the perimeter of the stupa in a clockwise fashion, an action said to confer merit.
He won the Nobel Prize for Chemistry in 1908, was president of the Royal Society (1925 30) and the British Association for the Advancement of Science (1923), was conferred the Order of Merit in 1925, and was raised to the peerage as Lord Rutherford of Nelson in 1931.
The treaty was well received in Britain, and in August 1919 the king conferred on Lloyd George the Order of Merit.
