To the best of my knowledge (and I've been an involved member for well over a quarter of a century) the RAeS has never been in the habit of giving awards to the undeserving.
People you've never heard of, certainly. But that just means that they were quietly getting on with what they were doing, and nothing else really mattered to them. You can clearly see that in common with the majority of people on the 2015 awards brochure.
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