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Alexander Duncan (doctor)
Dr. Alexander Duncan MBE (Order of the British Empire), MBE is a British General practitioner who spent six years in a village high up in the Wakhan Corridor of north-eastern Afghanistan. In December 2007 Alastair Leithead on BBC News 24 presented a half-hour feature about the corridor, focusing particularly on the work of expatriate Duncan, which provided a significant piece of extended media reporting from this inaccessible area. In January 2010 Duncan and his wife Eleanor were both awarded the MBE for their work in Afghanistan.http://www.mysouthwark.co.uk/news/alex-duncan-awarded-mbe He was educated at Dulwich College and Corpus Christi College, Cambridge. He now lives in England with his four children and wife. References {{DEFAULTSORT:Duncan, Alexander Year of birth missing (living people) Living people Members of the Order of the British Empire People educated at Dulwich College 21st-century English medical doctors ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
MBE (Order Of The British Empire)
MBE may refer to: Academic qualifications * Master of Bioethics * Master of Bioscience Enterprise * Master of Business Engineering * Master of Business Economics Science and technology * The Mid-Brunhes Event, a climatic change at around 430,000 years ago * Mode-based Execution Control, an x86 virtualization technology * Model-based enterprise, a manufacturing strategy where a 3D model of a product is used to guide its life cycle * Molecular-beam epitaxy, a thin-film crystal growth technique * ''Molecular Biology and Evolution'', a journal * Multi-band excitation, a series of speech coding standards * Multibeam echosounder, a device used to map ocean floors British honours * Member of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire Other uses * Mail Boxes Etc., a global chain of retail business service centers * Management by exception, a style of business management * Minority business enterprise, a classification of business * ''Morning Becomes Eclectic'', a radio pr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |