探花直播Chancellor, Lord Sainsbury of Turville, today conferred Honorary Degrees on eight distinguished individuals at a congregation in the Senate House.

Pictured: Front row l-r 听Hilary Mantel, 探花直播Chancellor, 探花直播Vice-Chancellor, Professor Ada Yonath

Back row l-r Professor Joseph Stiglitz, Mario Vargas Llosa, Dr Harold Varmus, Sir John Elliott, Professor Jonathan Spence, Professor Daniel Kahneman

Honorary Degrees, the highest honours that the 探花直播 can give, have a long history, dating back 500 years. One of the earliest recorded ceremonies was in 1493 when the 探花直播 agreed to honour the poet John Skelton.

探花直播traditional ceremony, with choral singing and Latin orations, took place in the Senate House. 探花直播graduands this year were:

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

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

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

Ada Yonath, Director of 探花直播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, 探花直播 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 探花直播, historian of China (Doctor of Letters)

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

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