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Dr Bernard Dixon(born 1938) is a British science journalist, who was editor of New Scientist from 1969 to 1979.
Dixon was also European Editor for the American Society for Microbiology from 1997. He wrote a columns for Current Biology from 2000 and for Lancet Infectious Diseases from 2001.
He was a member of the European Federation of Biotechnology's Task Group on Public Perceptions of Biotechnology.
He received the Institute of Biology's Charter Award for services to biology; and the Biochemical Society Award (shared with Steven Rose) "for scientific communication in the public domain" in 2002. The University of Edinburgh awarded him an honorary DSc "for contributions to public debate on scientific issues".
He was made an Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE) in the 2000 Birthday Honours for services to science journalism.
He gave the 2003 Erasmus Darwin Memorial Lecture, on the subject of "Why Modify Genes?".