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Gates is elected a Fellow of the Royal Society
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In 2016 Bill Gates was elected an Honorary Fellow of the Royal Society, Britain's centuries-old academy of sciences, recognizing his contributions to technology and to global health and development through the Gates Foundation. The honor placed him among a distinguished group of non-scientists admitted for exceptional service to science and society.
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Pakistan awards Gates the Hilal-e-Pakistan for polio work
On February 17, 2022, Pakistani President Arif Alvi conferred the Hilal-e-Pakistan — the country's second-highest civilian honor — on Bill Gates in recognition of the Gates Foundation's support for polio eradication and poverty reduction. The award came as Pakistan, one of the last two countries with endemic wild polio, marked a year without a new case, a milestone Gates had long invested in.
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