Honorary Degree nominations for 2013

The University of Cambridge Council has submitted the names of eight distinguished individuals to the Regent House, the University's Governing Body, seeking final authority for their admission to Honorary Doctorates at a Congregation on Tuesday 18 June 2013, at which the Chancellor, Lord Sainsbury of Turville, will preside.

The eight people proposed for Honorary Doctorates are:

Daniel Kahneman, Professor of Psychology and Public Affairs Emeritus, Princeton University, Nobel Laureate in Economic Science (Doctor of Science)

Joseph Stiglitz, Professor of Finance and Economics, Columbia University, Nobel Laureate in Economic Science (Doctor of Science)

Harold Varmus, Director of The National Cancer Institute, United States of America, Nobel Laureate in Physiology or Medicine (Doctor of Science)

Ada Yonath, Director of The Helen and Milton A Kimmelman Center for Biomolecular Structure and Assembly, Weizmann Institute of Sciences, Israel, Nobel Laureate in Chemistry (Doctor of Science)

John Elliott, Regius Professor of Modern History Emeritus, University of Oxford, historian of Spain (Doctor of Letters)

Hilary Mantel, author, twice winner of the Man Booker Prize (Doctor of Letters)

Jonathan Spence, Sterling Professor of History Emeritus, Yale University, historian of China (Doctor of Letters)

Mario Vargas Llosa, author, Nobel Laureate in Literature (Doctor of Letters)


Reproduced courtesy of the University of Cambridge


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