They will be awarded at a Congregation in the Senate House on Wednesday 17 June 2015, at which the Chancellor, Lord Sainsbury of Turville, will preside.
The nominees are:
- Sir John Eliot Gardiner (Honorary Fellow of King's College), conductor: Doctor of Music
- Mr Neil MacGregor, art historian and museum director: Doctor of Letters
- Sir James Mirrlees (Fellow of Trinity College), economist: Doctor of Science
- Julia, Baroness Neuberger (Newnham College), rabbi and medical ethicist: Doctor of Divinity
- Judge Hisashi Owada (Honorary Fellow of Trinity College), judge and diplomat: Doctor of Law
- Sir Michael Rawlins, physician and pharmacologist: Doctor of Science
- Dame Paula Rego (Honorary Fellow of Murray Edwards College), artist: Doctor of Letters
- Professor Judith Jarvis Thomson (Newnham College), philosopher: Doctor of Letters
Reproduced courtesy of the University of Cambridge
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