The inventor of the World Wide Web and the first female prime minister of Norway are among eight people to receive an honorary degree from Oxford University this summer.
Prof Tim Berners-Lee, OBE, the inventor of the web, is an honorary fellow of The Queen's College, Oxford, where he read physics.
He will receive a Degree of Doctor of Science at the annual Encaenia ceremony in The Sheldonian Theatre on June 20.
World Health Organisation director general Dr Gro Harlem, who was Norway's first woman prime minister, will receive a Degree of Doctor of Civil Law.
Seven of the candidates were announced yesterday. The eighth award, a Doctor of Civil Law degree to UN Secretary General Kofi Annan, was announced last year.
Other candidates to be honoured include Prof Walter Kohn, of the University of Santa Barbara, California, Prof Sir Gustav Nossal, of the University of Melbourne, Australia, and Dr William Bowen, a former provost and president of Princeton University, America.
Prof Eric Hobsbawn, of London University, is to receive a degree of Doctor of Letters.
Internationally acclaimed soprano, Dame Felicity Lott will be given a degree of Doctor of Music.
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