Chinese University Confers Honorary Doctorate on Nobel Prizelaureate
Posted on: Thursday, 29 July 2004, 06:00 CDT
Chinese university confers honorary doctorate on Nobel prize laureate
HEFEI, July 28 (Xinhua) -- Gerardus't Hooft, a Dutch scientist who won the Nobel prize in physics in 1999, received an honorary doctor's degree Tuesday at the Chinese Science and Technology University based in Hefei, east China's Anhui Province.
Hooft, professor of theoretical physics with Utrecht University in the Netherlands, shared the prize in 1999 with another Dutch scientist Martinus Veltman for their theoretical work on the structure and motion of subatomic particles.
Scientists with the Chinese university have carried out intensive research in this field and have maintained close academic exchanges with Hooft in recent years, according to officials with the university.
The honorary doctorate was conferred on Hooft following the recommendations of celebrated physicists including Nobel Prize laureate Chen-Ning Yang and academicians Gu Chaohao, Zhao Guangda, Zhu Qingshi and Hou Jianguo. The conferment has been approved by the Academic Degrees Committee of the State Council.
Hooft is the third Nobel laureate to receive the honorary doctorate from the noted university, following deceased Pakistani physicist Abdus Salam and Chinese-American physicist Samuel Chao Chung Ting.
The Chinese Science and Technology University was established in Beijing in 1958 and moved to Hefei in 1970. It is a cradle for scientists and researchers and is the alma mater for 34 academicians of the Chinese Academy of Sciences and the Chinese Academy of Engineering.
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