Honorary Degrees 2012

Eight distinguished individuals were awarded Honorary Doctorates, the highest honour that the University can bestow, by the Chancellor at a congregation in the Senate House today. The highest honour that the University can bestow" They are: The Lord Judge of Draycote (Honorary Fellow of Magdalene College), Lord Chief Justice of England and Wales (Doctor of Law)  Brigitte Askonas (Honorary Fellow of Girton and Murray Edwards Colleges), immunologist (Doctor of Science)  Professor Uta Frith (Honorary Fellow of Newnham College), developmental psychologist (Doctor of Science)  Professor Sir Richard Gardner (Honorary Fellow of St Catharine's College), physiologist (Doctor of Science)  Professor Peter Higgs, theoretical physicist (Doctor of Science)  Professor Roger Tsien (Honorary Fellow of Gonville and Caius and Churchill Colleges), Nobel Laureate in Chemistry (Doctor of Science)  Professor Phillip King (Honorary Fellow of Christ's College), sculptor (Doctor of Letters)  Mr Alfred Brendel, pianist (Doctor of Music) Photo Credit: Nigel Luckhurst Back Row l - r: Professor Sir Richard Gardner, Professor Peter Higgs, Lord Judge, Professor Phillip King, Professor Roger Tsien Front Row l - r: The Chancellor, Professor Uta Frith, Alfred Brendel, Professor Brigitte Askonas, The Vice-Chancellor The Right Honourable The Lord Judge Lord Judge has been Lord Chief Justice of England and Wales since 2008. After reading history and law at Magdalene College, of which he is now an Honorary Fellow, he was called to the Bar by the Middle Temple in 1963.