Professor David Payne of the University of Southampton has been named as a finalist for the world's most prestigious technology awards.
The fact that many people in the UK will not have heard of Professor Payne is yet another sad indictment of this country's wayward approach to scientific and engineering achievements.
There are still not enough graduates with the rights skills coming out of UK universities.
That seems to be the worrying finding of new research in the jobs market published by the CBI.
Inevitably is it graduates in science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) subjects which are in highest demand.
According to the survey, 92% of firms want people with these skills. By 2014, it is expected that the UK will need to fill over three-quarters of a million extra jobs requiring highly numerate, analytical people with STEM skills, making a net total of 2.4 million of these jobs in six years' time.
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