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Elena Cernei

In 1961, she was made Artistă Emerită (Honoured Artist) of the Republic of Romania and in 1999 received the degree of Doctor Honoris Causa from the National University of Music Bucharest for her contributions to the field of musicology.

Fernando Bonilla-Musoles

In 1994 Bonilla and Dr. Pellicer sponsor the Nobel Prize in Medicine 2010, Robert Edwards, in his appointment as Doctor Honoris Causa by the University of Valencia.

Jerzy Mikułowski Pomorski

Jerzy Mikułowski Pomorski (born 3 January 1937) is a Polish sociologist, professor, doctor honoris causa of Grand Valley State University (1993) and Teesside University (1995).

Józef Maksymilian Ossoliński

Józef was member of many learned institutions, such as the Society of Friends of Science, Warsaw Scientific Society, the Wilno Academy, the Kraków Academy, the Royal Societies in Prague and Göttingen, the Imperial-Royal Society in Vienna, and a doctor honoris causa of the Jagiellonian University.

Lawrence H. Cohn

He was awarded an honorary Masters of Medicine from Harvard in 1989 and a Doctor Honoris Causa from the University of Paris in 1992.

María Elena Walsh

In 1985 she received the title of Illustrious Citizen of the City of Buenos Aires, and in 1990 was named Doctor honoris causa of the National University of Cordoba and Illustrious People of Buenos Aires Province as well.

Pierre Briant

Pierre Briant (born September 30, 1940 in Angers) is a French Iranologist, Professor of History and Civilisation of the Achaemenid World and the Empire of Alexander the Great at the Collège de France (1999 onwards), Doctor Honoris Causa at the University of Chicago, and founder of the website achemenet.com.


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Bartholomew Voorsanger

The New York architect Voorsanger received a Bachelor Degree with Honors from Princeton University, a Master Degree in Architecture from Harvard University, and accepted in 2005 the title of Doctor Honoris Causa from the University of Architecture and Urbanism “Ion Mincu”, Bucharest, Romania.

Gerard Jennings

In 2001 he was conferred with the degree of Doctor Honoris Causa (Honorary Doctorate) by the University of Gothenburg, Sweden.

How the García Girls Lost Their Accents

Julia Alvarez was awarded the status of Doctor Honoris Causa, Humanidades, by Pontificia Universidad Católica Madre y Maestra, Santiago, Dominican Republic on January 24, 2006 for How the García Girls Lost Their Accents.

Jesús Maria Sanromá

Amongst the many awards and recognitions bestowed upon Sanromá were Doctor Honoris Causa degrees from the New England Conservatory of Music, University of Puerto Rico, University of Miami, St. Peter's College and Boston College.

Manfred Max Neef

Among his honoraria are the University Award of Highest Honour (Soka University); Doctor Honoris Causa (University of Jordan); Chile's National Prize for the Promotion and Defense of Human Rights; and the Kenneth Boulding Award, the highest honour bestowed by the International Society for Ecological Economics (August 2008).

Pierre-Louis Lions

He is a doctor honoris causa of Heriot-Watt University (Edinburgh) and of the City University of Hong-Kong and is listed as an ISI highly cited researcher.

Raimond Gaita

In 2009, the University of Antwerp awarded Gaita the degree of Doctor Honoris Causa “for his exceptional contribution to contemporary moral philosophy and for his singular contribution the role of the intellectual in today’s academic world".

William Forsyth Sharpe

He is also the recipient of a Doctor of Humane Letters, Honoris Causa from DePaul University, a Doctor Honoris Causa from the University of Alicante (Spain), a Doctor Honoris Causa from the University of Vienna and the UCLA Medal, UCLA's highest honor.