Queen Knights Lions of Art, Industry, Sept. 11

Actor Ben Kingsley and the American scientist James Watson, winner of the Nobel Prize, received knighthoods today in a New Year’s list honoring people from the Bee Gees to the head of the lost-property office for London’s buses and subways.

Besides its usual celebration of art and industry, the honors list touched on the events of Sept. 11, with awards for people working in the British Consulate General in New York when the terrorist attack destroyed the World Trade Center. Dozens of Britons were killed.

The honors, officially bestowed by Queen Elizabeth II, but largely selected by the government, mark the achievements of hundreds of people every year.