University of Warsaw Honorary Doctorate Degrees

In 1921, the University of Warsaw awarded Marshall Józef Piłsudski with the honoris causa degree. Since then, Ludwik de Broglie, Jaroslav Heyrovsky, Fryderyk Joliot-Curie, Cecil Frank Powell, Niels Bohr, Riccardo Giacconi, Shuji Nakamura, as well as a laureate of the ACM Turing Award, Charles Antony Richard Hoare, have received an honorary degree from UW.

Doctors Honoris Causa of UW (since 2001)

5 December 2023 – Prof. Freiherr Claus von Carnap-Bornheim

Honorary doctorate for the European archaeologist

 

13 November 2023 – Prof. Hideo Ohno

Japanese physicist awarded with the UW honorary degree

 

23 February 2022 – Olga Tokarczuk

Olga Tokarczuk with the title of doctor honoris causa of the University of Warsaw

 

16 February 2022 – Andrzej Koźmiński

DHC for Professor Andrzej Koźmiński

 

8 December 2021 – Jacek Klinowski

Prof. Jacek Klinowski with the title of doctor honoris causa of the University of Warsaw

 

16 January 2019 – Janusz Jurczak

Honorary degree for Prof. Jurczak

 

14 March 2018 – Sergei Kovalyov

Sergei Kovalyov with an honorary degree of UW

10 May 2017 – Shuji Nakamura

Honorary degree for Prof. Shuji Nakamura

 

26 September 2016 – Maciej Lewenstein

Honorary degree for physicist

 

24 June 2016 – Ewa Łętowska

Honorary degree for Prof. Łętowska

 

8 June 2016 – Elhanan Helpman

Honorary degree for economist

 

9 March 2015 – Andrzej Białynicki-Birula

5 November 2014 – Alain Besançon

Honorary Degree for a French historian

 

6 November 2013 – Michael Martinek

29 October 2013 – Andrzej Białas

21 March 2013 – Oded Stark

27 February 2013 – Michael G. Müller

28 November 2012 – Sir Charles Antony Richard Hoare

13 July 2012 – Henryk Skarżyński

25 June 2012 – Elie Wiesel

5 June 2012 – Jurij D. Apresjan

11 January 2012 – Hans Hauben

30 November 2011 – Szewach Weiss

15 November 2011 – Aaron Ciechanover

22 June 2011 – Stanisław Waltoś

14 January 2011 – Theodor Meron

30 June 2010 – Richard Pipes

18 June 2010 – Antony Polonsky

18 June 2010 – Maria Rostworowski de Diez Canseco

20 May 2010 – Horacio Cerutti-Guldberg

7 May 2010 – Ivan Čolović

15 May 2009 – Francisco J. Ayala

24 November 2008 – Gerd Meyer

17 June 2008 – Eckart Hien

6 March 2008 – Leszek Balcerowicz

31 July 2007 – William G. Dwyer

27 July 2007 – Oskar Anweiler

28 March 2007 – Norman Davies

3 April 2006 – Anna Wierzbicka

26 October 2005 – Shmuel Noah Eisenstadt

29 August 2005 – Sir Roger Penrose

25 May 2005 – Andrzej Wajda

21 October 2004 – Václav Havel

10 March 2004 – Abp Desmond Tutu

3 March 2004 – Alasdair Smith

14 November 2003 – Siegmar von Schnurbein

7 November 2003 – Luciano Maiani

12 June 2003 – Tadeusz Mazowiecki

28 May 2003 – Eugenio Barba

16 May 2003 – Marcus Lutter

22 November 2002 – Władysław Bartoszewski

30 October 2002 – Mieczysław Porębski

14 October 2002 – Jacek Furdyna

16 May 2002 – Dmytro Pawłyczko

5 December 2001– Ihor Ševčenko

15 November 2001 – Jan Nowak-Jeziorański

4 April 2001 – Tadeusz Różewicz

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